Shaking the phone: a disturbing trend
I have recently noticed a disturbing trend start to develop in iPhone apps. It’s the “shake the phone to refresh” interaction model (a.k.a. the “Etch A Sketch” interaction model). The worst culprit is...
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Trust Me
I would (if I knew what you were trying to say) Having been a fan of Thomas Cavanagh in Ed, I so very much want to like this show, but I am just not sure how it wants me to feel. Eric McCormack plays...
View ArticleHow not to write a job posting
I keep an eye on the job market, just so I know who’s hiring, what they’re hiring for, and where I fit in with my current skills. I don’t read postings on monster.com or anything like that, I just keep...
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GMail – too much space is never enough
What a full GMail inbox looks like I always wondered what GMail would do if, and whatsmore if I even could, reach/ed the capacity of my GMail account. Well, as if to prove one of the corollary of...
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iPhone solutions for cold hands in winter
As many iPhone owners who have experienced cold winters know, you often have to make a very difficult choice: keep your hands warm or take off your gloves to use the iPhone to text your best friend...
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Winter’s Bone
Cold (literally), suspenseful, gritty and harsh. A story told with such a sense of honesty and sympathetic and balanced pace that you wonder where the hour and a half went. With an absent father and a...
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Blue Valentine
Intimate In a word, it is just that. A story told from the time-disjointed perspective of two young hapless lovers, whose directions in life hit an abrupt cul-de-sac. One, happy to ‘be’ as he found his...
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
As an Australian, it’s taken me a long while to stand up and show some support for our particular breed of cinema – too often playing on the ‘mongrel battler’, the borderline psycopath or down-and-out...
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Nokia Lumia 800 – 5 days of happiness
The Nokia Lumia 800 and Windows Phone Mango 7.5 make a formidable combination. Beautiful build quality, gorgeous display, immediate responsiveness and an extremely elegant operating system (clearly...
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Django Unchained: Quick Review
★★★★☆ Quentin Tarrantino can still make solid films. Christoph Waltz, who was mesmorisingly good in Inglourious Basterds, also commands your attention in this one. Jamie Foxx is brilliantly cast,...
View ArticleConverting Thunderbird to Outlook (Office365/Outlook2016)
For posterity, and the benefit of others considering the same thing, some quick notes about the exhauting experience of moving 20 years of email in Mozilla Thunderbird (52.6) to Outlook 2016 (and...
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