I have a great friend in my Dad. He takes time to listen to me. He tries to help me. Our conversations are not so much about some grand conclusion as they are about exploration and discovery. Recently he sent me an email follow up to a conversation we were having. Here’s what he wrote: […]
zPhone! Note: Many thanks to Andy Klepack for the Hi-Def image. Food and beverages not included. 🙂
There’s a cool little feature I just discovered thanks to a friend at work. If you are on a phone call, and turn on your iPod music, everyone on the call can hear your music! Also, the volume controls for the phone call and the music are separate so you can have some nice background […]
A fun parody of Apple. The product? Paper napkins.
The general manager of the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft is Craig Eisler. He’s been here now for just over 4 weeks. It’s been fun to watch him step into his new role and if nothing else watch as everyone adjusts to a new dynamic leader. Craig seems to be just that, a high energy, […]
Today at 3:30 p.m. PDT, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will rollout for the world to see. You can view the live webcast at http://www.boeing.com or watch it on Satellite TV. (576 DirectTV or 9601 DishNetwork). Boeing hired a design firm Teague, to help them from the very beginning to build the Dreamliner. John Barratt, the […]
Let me begin by stating that I unabashedly love the United States of America. It is just wonderful to live in the United States of America. There are problems to be sure, but these are had everywhere. On the other hand, the blessings experienced here are only found elsewhere in relatively small pockets. When you […]
Apple has posted their iPhone User’s Guide for all those of you who can’t get a hold of one, and all throughout are references to ‘iPhone’, not ‘the iPhone.’ One example follows: To activate iPhone: 1 Download and install iTunes 7.3 (or later) from http://www.itunes.com. 2 Connect iPhone to a USB 2.0 port on your […]
When Apple announced that the “sweet” iPhone Software Development Kit was going to be AJAX and “Web 2.0 stuff”, most developers scoffed. A few went to work, and now we are starting to see some web applications built specifically for the iPhone. First up is a very nicely designed shopping list application named OneTrip. It […]
You may have heard the saying, “It’s the journey, not the destination.” I like this saying, but I have never applied it to user interface design. Normally, when prototyping or sketching up a UI design, I focus on the end states, the screenshot. Once you have that, you link screenshot to screenshot in a kind […]
David Weiss 