Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: “Think of the dilemma this way: Any password-reset system that will be acceptable to a 65-year-old user will fall in seconds to a 14-year-old hacker.” Mat Honan …
Read more →Designing by Making: your process for arranging furniture can point toward a good process for UI design: Many contemporary design process artifacts like field interviews, a wall of post-it notes, and paper prototypes reflect an increasingly antiquated premise: …
Read more →Paper Passion, A Perfume That Smells Like Books For Booklovers: “Paper Passion is a perfume formulated to smell like books, meant to appeal to booklovers.” From my niece Daisy. I wonder if they have a Kindle version . . . .
Read more →While I was driving to work today, my pants pocket buzzed. “Incoming,” my iPhone nudged, and then awaited my response. And I knew my iPhone wasn’t going to tell me again, whatever the message, until I pulled it out of my pocket and looked at its screen. I had …
Read more →Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset: Here’s the worst part, I didn’t spend any time on the phone with anyone about these issues. I didn’t file bugs, send support tickets or email teams. Instead, I just Googled around and saw one of two possible scenarios …
Read more →In this post, I talked about my travails getting my son’s USB wireless adapter working in Linux. A few weeks later, it stopped working. Puzzling. I opened a terminal and ran: lsusb The computer duly reported that it saw the USB wireless adapter. Then, I ran: …
Read more →Good Job Apple, You (Screwed) the World - (by @baekdal): The idea that one company can own non-inventions is absolutely appalling to me. (Via Baekdal.com) Nails it. Yes, Samsung was lazy and unoriginal and brazenly copied far too much, but this is not a …
Read more →More on Wang Ting: It’s frustrating that Apple has no problem playing gatekeeper and keeping apps out of the store for the most trivial and arbitrary of reasons, but won’t play gatekeeper when presented with clear evidence of repeated copyright infringement. A …
Read more →How to turn an upset customer into a happy customer: To be generous and giving means a few people will take advantage of your kindness, but this shouldn’t stop you. Everything, even a complaint, is an opportunity. Be generous and humble. (Via less everything - …
Read more →The 100 Top Rated Amazon Items [Link]: My Amazon login experience is starting feel like walking past a cell phone reseller booth in a mall. (Via Macdrifter) One person’s cut at a different sort of landing page for Amazon–one that displays the 100 current …
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