April 2010
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mled asked: Did you know that one of your favourite posts (titled What I've Learned - Summer 2009) is no longer available? It's a GoDaddy holding page. I remember shutupinternet, that was a great blog. Shame it's gone, but you had good reasons.
Assignment: Broadcast Rewrite
[Video] Lauren Brown working at a computer (10 seconds)
[Voice Over] University of Colorado senior Lauren Brown is working on her website. It’s her final project as part of the Technology, Arts and Media minor offered through the ATLAS program. The 22-year-old Brown is supplementing her advertising degree with a technical background.
[On Screen] Lauren speaking: “I think that with...
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I just bought a huge GameBoy / I don't know what...
(Photo: cype_applejuice)
I wrote a pretty positive review of the iPad a few weeks ago for the CU Independent where I gave into Apple’s claims of how magical the iPad is and all of that bullshit…
Now I’m eating my words.
The honeymoon phase has worn off with me and my iPad and I’m bored. At first it was cool, like one of those computers from Minority Report or Avatar....
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Startup Weekend Boulder - Feel Awesome
Hey everybody. Hope your weekend is going well.
I’m currently knee deep in Startup Weekend Boulder, starting a company called Feel Awesome. It’s an iPhone app and/or an SMS-based service that’s accessible to anyone who owns a cell phone.
Feel Awesome is all about personal tracking for personal growth. We want to help you keep track of your short term and long term goals, your...
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Do travel websites change their prices based on...
Travel Myth: By shopping around online for the best deal on a flight, prices go up once you leave one site for another and then return to the initial site.
The idea behind travel websites changing prices lies in your browser’s cookies. For example, Delta’s website saw that you had gone to Southwest’s website after theirs and wanted to snub you for not choosing Delta’s low...
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Making WordsWithFriends a better app
In my opinion, the following features would take WordsWithFriends from a great iPhone/iPad app to an incredible app:
Don’t show the score or the first word played in a game until the other player accepts the challenge.
Tabs kept on Wins and Loses per player.
Matchmaking to pair players of similar skills together.
Remove the link to the Facebook fan page at the bottom of the iPad app.
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Breaking: Twitter acquires Tweetie
Tweetie has perhaps become the official Twitter client. According to Mashable, Twitter has bought Atebits, the company that produces the incredible popular iPhone and desktop app Tweetie.
According to Twitter CEO Evan Williams, “Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free.” Tweetie’s creator Loren Brichter will join Twitter’s mobile team.
I'm starting an iPhone applications company
Just a small announcement:
To celebrate the half-way point in my college career, I’m starting an iPhone applications company here in Boulder, Colorado. It’s called 59thirty and we’ve got some great products already in the works.
Much more to come as the weeks unfold.
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iPad Notes
I just wrote an 800+ word review of the iPad on my iPad. Here are some notes:
I hit the letter P instead of the delete key easily over 200 times.
Typing on the iPad is slow compared to my keyboard even though they’re nearly the same size.
I use less fingers to type on the iPad than I do to type on my keyboard.
I’m hesitant to write papers on the iPad, anything other than a quick...
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Multitasking has to come to (at least) the iPad
If Apple wants people to use the iPad as a computer and not as a giant iPod Touch, multitasking has to come and fast. There are too many tasks done on computers that require multiple apps.
I was working on my iPad review this morning for the CU Independent and needed to jump from Pages to Safari to look things up a few times. Pressing the home button and switching apps isn’t too time...
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