Monthly Archives: December 2008

Remove redundant TouchFlo Start Menu with WkTask

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jeff

Since get­ting a Touch Pro a cou­ple weeks ago, I’ve been try­ing to fig­ure out to best to opti­mize the Touch­Flo inter­face. HTC has done some nice things with this device (the Touch Pro on Sprint or out­side the US, the HTC … Con­tinue read­ing →

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When did Twitter kill instant messaging?

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jeff

A funny thing hap­pened on the way to the blog this morn­ing. I checked my email, caught up my RSS feeds in Google Reader, and scanned last night’s Twit­ter activ­ity in Tweet­Deck (which is so good it’s actu­ally worth installing Adobe … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Pick your ecosystem carefully

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Jeff

There are shap­ing up to be four big ecosys­tems in com­put­ing. As all four diver­sify into the cat­e­gories below, I’m notic­ing that a lot of users are stan­dard­iz­ing on using every­thing from a sin­gle ven­dor, a silo­ing of the mar­ket rather than embrac­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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10,000 hours

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Jeff

In Mal­colm Gladwell’s new book, Out­liers, he makes an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion. In any rel­a­tively com­plex dis­ci­pline, it takes 10,000 hours of prac­tice to achieve mas­tery. This 10,000 hour rule seems to apply equally to music com­po­si­tion, soft­ware devel­op­ment, writ­ing, sewing, play­ing hockey, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming…

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Jeff

Okay, Hol­i­day Cri­sis Sea­son is over, I can get back to writ­ing. and I’ve got quite a bit to cover. While you wait, I highly sug­gest read­ing Mal­colm Gladwell’s new book Out­liers, avail­able on eReader and Audible.

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Self-​learning skills

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Jeff

Dri­ving home just now I noticed some­thing. When I’m straight­en­ing out of a turn, I’ll loosen my grip on the steer­ing wheel and let the wheel spin freely just enough to bring the tires back to straight, then tighten my grip again. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Yet again, Windows Mobile trumps the iPhone

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Jeff

Joost released a new iPhone appli­ca­tion that, at first, seems like a pretty cool idea. You can use it to stream any of the videos hosted on Joost to the iPhone and watch them wher­ever you are. Neat! Movies and TV shows … Con­tinue read­ing →

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