United States Presidents are some of the most amazing men (and someday women!) in history. Reading their personal letters helps give insight into their minds. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, Mental Floss's list is a must-see. Here's one example, a letter by a 10-year-old JFK A Plea for a raiseBy Jack Kennedy Dedicated to myMr. J. P. Kennedy Chapter I My recent allowance is 40¢. This I used for areoplanes and other playthings of childhood but now I am a scout and I put away my childish things. Before I would spend 20¢ of my ¢.40 allowance and in five minutes I would have…
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Apple Seriously Considered Switching to AMD in 2011 MacBook Air
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page22 Feb 2012 | 9:04 pmIn an upcoming profile of AMD, Forbes reports that the company's Llano family of Fusion combination CPU-GPU systems was under consideration by Apple to be used as the brains behind the MacBook Air for its 2011 revision. AMD lost out to Intel, however, as the necessary parts were late in being delivered to Apple and had unacceptably high failure rates.AMD struggled with its new fabless model while trying to crank out “fusion” processors that combined a CPU and a GPU in a single part. On paper the idea was promising. A notebook processor dubbed “Llano” got a close look from Apple for an… -
Daily Wrap: RIM Playbook Disappoints and more
ReadWriteWeb22 Feb 2012 | 6:06 pmDavid Strom says the RIM Playbook isn't ready for primetime. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor -
Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes
Smashing Magazine Feed21 Feb 2012 | 7:18 amIn darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices. Smaller touch targets are harder for users to hit than larger ones. When you’re designing mobile interfaces, it’s best to make your targets big so that they’re easy for users to tap. But exactly how big should you make them to give the best ease of use to the majority of your users? Many mobile developers have wondered this, and most have turned to the user… -
Motivational Poster #9
Runner's World Daily Views22 Feb 2012 | 5:54 amSteve Prefontaine may have been without limits, but he was the exception that proved the rule. For the rest of us, well, as Clint Eastwood put it so well: "A man's got to know his limitations." In... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com.
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Holy Kaw!
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10 amazing presidential letters
22 Feb 2012 | 11:33 pmUnited States Presidents are some of the most amazing men (and someday women!) in history. Reading their personal letters helps give insight into their minds. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, Mental Floss's list is a must-see. Here's one example, a letter by a 10-year-old JFK A Plea for a raiseBy Jack Kennedy Dedicated to myMr. J. P. Kennedy Chapter I My recent allowance is 40¢. This I used for areoplanes and other playthings of childhood but now I am a scout and I put away my childish things. Before I would spend 20¢ of my ¢.40 allowance and in five minutes I would have… -
Phrases that signal BS or authenticity
22 Feb 2012 | 11:24 pmCEOs who are perceived as inauthentic are also seen as bad, incapable leaders, according to Marketing Profs. So how can you avoid inauthenticity? Watch out for five key phrases. Here are two phrases often perceived as inauthentic: "This deal is a win-win." Bloggers commented that few business deals, if any, are really a win-win—particularly in the current economic climate. "Thinking/working/planning outside the box." That phrase is viewed as classic corporate-speak, according to the interviewed bloggers. Full story at Marketing Profs. Top careers news. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink |… -
Nifty social media ideas to learn from [video]
22 Feb 2012 | 11:21 pmSome social media campaigns are so nifty that there's plenty to glean from them. Open Forum offers a few examples, such as: GranataPet's Foursquare-Enabled Billboard Pet food brand GranataPet earned worldwide attention last year for its billboard in Agenta, Germany. This wasn't just any billboard, though. It was rigged so that if a consumer checked in on Foursquare, the billboard would dispense some of the company's dog food. Someone from Granata's ad agency filmed the billboard in action, and the video now has more than 50,000 views on YouTube (in various iterations). What you can learn from… -
How to increase your business with LinkedIn
22 Feb 2012 | 11:16 pmMost think that LinkedIn is soley useful for individuals. However, there's also a place for businesses on the professional networking site. Smart Brief article offers a few suggestions for optimizing your business's LinkedIn. For example: Use LinkedIn’s tools to their full advantage Write a snappy headline and use the 120 available characters to describe what you do in an attention-grabbing way, Ruff says. Also, be sure to use all 2,000 characters allotted in the summary space under your bio. Compose an elevator pitch that tells prospects who you are and how you can help them. Then end… -
11 early indications that your startup may be in trouble
22 Feb 2012 | 11:02 pmIf your startup has to go the way of the dinosaurs, wouldn't you want to know as soon as possible? Startup Smart gives eleven early warning signs that your startup might be failing. Here are two examples: Increases in fixed costs without an increase in revenues Fixed costs have a direct impact on your profitability. If you increase your fixed costs these need to be linked to revenue and profit expectations. You also need sufficient capital or funding to cover these costs if increases are needed to facilitate growth. Funding your business with debt rather than equity finance If your business…
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MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page
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Apple Seriously Considered Switching to AMD in 2011 MacBook Air
22 Feb 2012 | 9:04 pmIn an upcoming profile of AMD, Forbes reports that the company's Llano family of Fusion combination CPU-GPU systems was under consideration by Apple to be used as the brains behind the MacBook Air for its 2011 revision. AMD lost out to Intel, however, as the necessary parts were late in being delivered to Apple and had unacceptably high failure rates.AMD struggled with its new fabless model while trying to crank out “fusion” processors that combined a CPU and a GPU in a single part. On paper the idea was promising. A notebook processor dubbed “Llano” got a close look from Apple for an… -
OnLive Launches Premium 'Desktop Plus' with Flash and PDF-Enabled Web Browser
22 Feb 2012 | 3:54 pmLast month, OnLive introduced its free OnLive Desktop service that allows users to run virtual instances of Microsoft Office apps streamed from OnLive's remote PCs to the users' iPads. The company has now added Adobe Acrobat Reader support to the service and introduced a paid "Desktop Plus" subscription service to provide enhanced functionality including priority access and a Flash- and PDF-enabled browser experience. OnLive Desktop Plus is priced at $4.99 per month.The free OnLive Desktop App, currently available on iPad—and coming soon to Android, PC, Mac, TVs and monitors—delivers… -
Apple and Other Mobile App Distributors Agree to New Privacy Policy Notification Standards
22 Feb 2012 | 1:16 pmThe California Attorney General's office today announced that Apple, Google, and other companies running mobile app marketplaces have agreed to implement new standards for notifying users of privacy policies associated with apps offered in their stores. The provisions will require that developers of apps that collect personal information include privacy policies with their app sthat can be viewed directly from the store before downloading the apps themselves.Attorney General Harris forged the agreement with six companies whose platforms comprise the majority of the mobile apps market: Amazon,… -
Foxconn Accused of Hiding Underage Workers During Audits
22 Feb 2012 | 11:03 amAppleInsider reports on an interview with a representative of Hong Kong-based nonprofit Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) claiming that Foxconn used advance knowledge of recent audits by the Fair Labor Association to hide underage workers from auditors. Specifically, the report addresses the issue of 16- and 17-year olds, who are permitted to work under Apple's supplier code of conduct if allowed under local laws, but with special restrictions on types and duration of their work.[SACOM project officer Debby Sze Wan] Chan said she had heard from two Foxconn workers in… -
Japanese iTunes Store Enhancements: iTunes Plus, 3G Downloads, Ringtones, Complete My Album
22 Feb 2012 | 8:07 amYesterday, we noted that the music component of iTunes in the Cloud was rolling out to Japanese users, allowing them to freely download any music content previously purchased from the iTunes Store. But as now summarized by 9to5Mac, various reports in the Japanese media reveal that the additions have been much more extensive and have brought Apple's Japanese iTunes Store offerings nearly on par with most of the company's other major markets. Highlighting some of the changes, Apple has posted a What's New page [Google translation] for iTunes on its Japanese site. The new additions include: - 3G…
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Daily Wrap: RIM Playbook Disappoints and more
22 Feb 2012 | 6:06 pmDavid Strom says the RIM Playbook isn't ready for primetime. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor -
Flickr Can't Go Back To What It Once Was
22 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pmFlickr will launch a major makeover in its quest to return to its once young and sexy past, according to reports from BetaBeat. The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable. There will be little white space on the homepage. In the new version, photos will appear four times their current size. They will lie on the page, scattered about like puzzle pieces slipped together without overlap. Flickr is repositioning itself to look more like an app, which is right in line with Yahoo's "mobile first"… -
Open Knowledge Releases Open Data Handbook 1.0
22 Feb 2012 | 3:01 pmThe Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) announced the 1.0 release of the Open Data Handbook today. The 1.0 release is the culmination of a project that started in October 2010 at a book sprint in Berlin as the Open Data Manual. The Open Data Handbook provides the introduction to what open data is, why organizations (particularly government) would be interested in providing open data, and how to go about it. Sponsor Open data proponents will find the Open Data Handbook pretty basic stuff, but it's an excellent resource to pass on to others. It's also the starting point for a lot more work. -
Xerox Goes Up Against RIM in 'BYOD' Mobile Device Management
22 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pmThe firm that entered our lives as "The Document Company" must reinvent itself again if it is to thrive in a world where paper is used less and less as the agent of transferring information. Taking a cue yesterday from Research In Motion, which last November set up a safety net for itself as a mobile document management (MDM) company, Xerox is now headed the same direction. Now, the former "Document Company" has announced it's setting itself up as a managed service provider for SMBs and enterprises to provision secure mobile devices, effectively reselling an MDM platform from Boxtone. If you… -
MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program Aims to Bring Mobile Payments Everywhere
22 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pmFor all of the talk about the mobile payments revolution, most of the world still deals in cash. About 85% of world retail transactions are still done with paper currency, while payment processors are smacking their lips at the prospect of increasing their share. The problem with digital payments in emerging markets is most people do not have proper bank accounts. However, they are likely to have mobile phones. So today, MasterCard announced a partnership initiative to turn those phones into payment processors. Walk into a store anywhere in the world and use your phone to make a purchase. The…
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Smashing Magazine Feed
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Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes
21 Feb 2012 | 7:18 amIn darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices. Smaller touch targets are harder for users to hit than larger ones. When you’re designing mobile interfaces, it’s best to make your targets big so that they’re easy for users to tap. But exactly how big should you make them to give the best ease of use to the majority of your users? Many mobile developers have wondered this, and most have turned to the user… -
Beautiful Covers: An Interview With Chip Kidd
19 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pmThe work of Chip Kidd spans design, writing and, most recently, rock ’n’ roll. He definitely has the charisma to get ahead in that third field. He is best known for his unconventional book jackets, but he has published two novels of his own: The Learners and The Cheese Monkeys. Uninterested in design trends and fashions, he often draws inspiration from collectibles and memorabilia. Kidd is now busy creating his masterpiece, a graphic novel born from his lifelong fascination with Batman (he regards himself as Batman’s number-one fan). He has teamed up with comic-book artist… -
Stop Writing Project Proposals
16 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmAfter several grueling days I had finally finished the proposal. I sent it off and waited for a response. Nothing. After a few weeks, I discovered that they were “just looking”. Despite the urgency and aggressive timeline for the RFP (Request For Proposal) plus the fact that we had done business with this organization before, the project was a no-go. My days of effort were wasted. Not entirely, though, because the pain of that loss was enough to drive me to decide that it wouldn’t happen again. I work at a Web development company and we’ve experimented with proposal… -
How To Recruit A UX Designer
16 Feb 2012 | 6:30 amThe Web has entered an era of user-centricity. If businesses are to attract new customers and retain existing ones, they must create websites and apps that deliver intuitive and tailored experiences. Whether you run an online retailer or a not-for-profit community website, the user experience is mission critical. As a consequence, we have seen a real surge in the need for talented user experience (UX) designers who can help turn vision into reality. How do you attract, recruit and retain UX talent in your business? (Image credit: openwourceway) If you are anything like us,… -
The Smashing Book #3: All Good Things Come In Threes
15 Feb 2012 | 6:46 amYes, the brand new Smashing Book #3 is coming. The printing press is warming up, the illustrations are finished, and the chapters are being proofread. This third book is the best printed book we’ve produced so far: it is a valuable, cutting-edge, high-quality printed book that any Web designer should have on their bookshelf. This time, we’ve also prepared an extra book 3⅓ that offers even more exclusive content. We’re releasing two new printed books: the main Smashing Book 3 and Smashing Book 3⅓. Both are available as a print bundle, as eBooks and as a complete print +…
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Runner's World Daily Views
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Motivational Poster #9
22 Feb 2012 | 5:54 amSteve Prefontaine may have been without limits, but he was the exception that proved the rule. For the rest of us, well, as Clint Eastwood put it so well: "A man's got to know his limitations." In... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com. -
Workouts Are the VERY Best Time for a Snack
21 Feb 2012 | 5:57 amOnce again, The New York Times gets it wrong, wrong, wrong. In a post yesterday on the Times' Well blog, runner and writer Gina Kolata explores the issue of eating and drinking during exercise,... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com. -
Happy Presidents Day!
20 Feb 2012 | 4:34 amTwo years ago on Presidents Day, RW Daily asked you: Who would win, in a head-to-head race: Abraham "Crazy Legs" Lincoln, or George "The Mount Vernon Vortex" Washington? Last year on Presidents Day,... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com. -
Runner’s Digest: 2.17.12
17 Feb 2012 | 2:00 amBy Dana Blinder and Meghan G. Loftus Today is Friday, February 17, 2012 — a good day for a run. The Countdown LA Marathon: 31 days Boston Marathon: 59 days Big Sur International Marathon: 72 days... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com. -
A Triple Bypass Burger, a Heart Attack
16 Feb 2012 | 4:29 amFrom Doggy Bag? Or Body Bag?, RW Daily, February 4, 2010, on new "heart attack"-themed restaurants: That's right: Double Bypass hamburgers. Heart disease as wacky eatery theme. ... What's next?... Updated CONSTANTLY! Rants, raves, reports, roundups, and other bits of nonsense -- some of it useful -- from the editors of RW and RW.com.
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No Meat Athlete
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Introducing Run Your BQ
16 Feb 2012 | 12:52 pmWell, it’s finally here! After many months of hard work with Jason Fitzgerald, the coach and author behind Strength Running, this Wednesday we finally launched our baby. Hmm, that came out weird. We didn’t literally launch a baby, I promise. Our “baby” is Run Your BQ, an interactive training and coaching website entirely dedicated to helping runners qualify for the Boston Marathon. If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, then you know how much qualifying for Boston meant to me. And that’s why I’m so proud of this project that I know is going to… -
5 Steps I Used to Take 104 Minutes Off My Marathon
9 Feb 2012 | 9:04 amOver the past two years, I’ve written plenty on No Meat Athlete about the changes I made to get fast enough to qualify for Boston. I’ve talked about how I stopped getting injured, how I improved my form, and the mindset that was required to take that much time off my first marathon. But it was all scattered among lots of posts — some bit-size tips here, a few more there. Good information, but hard to put together into any sort of cohesive plan. Not anymore. Yesterday I published a huge, 15-page PDF report about what I did to get so much faster. It’s called The BQ… -
The Boston-Qualifying Mindset
3 Feb 2012 | 11:45 am“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.” – Thomas Watson, IBM I just came across this quote in a blog post called Failure Club, by Eric at Roc the Run. The post is about Eric’s dedication to qualify for the Boston Marathon, no matter how badly he has to fail in order to get there. For me, it was an incredibly moving post to read. The best part? Eric is not even close to qualifying right now. You know that please-let-this-be-over-before-I-puke feeling that it takes to run a 5K PR? Well, to qualify for… -
How Tom Lost 30 Pounds and Went from ‘Average’ to Plant-Based Marathoner
1 Feb 2012 | 8:20 amTom in the summer of 2008Average. That’s how Tom Giammalvo describes his health and lifestyle prior to 2010. Not atrocious, not disgusting, not embarrassing. Not any of the extreme, negative descriptors we’ve come to expect with stories of transformation. Just average. And that’s why his is the perfect one to share. As far as his health was concerned, Tom wasn’t the guy you see on The Biggest Loser. Instead, he was your next door neighbor. Tom is an RN at Falmouth Hospital in Massachusetts. When he worked night shifts in the intensive care unit, the odd hours made it… -
5 Ways Cycling Can Make You a Stronger Runner
27 Jan 2012 | 7:47 amPost written by Susan Lacke. #5: The Brick Workout (which actually looks nothing like whatever it is she's doing)Admit it — you runners love to poke fun at us cyclists. We’re dork-ish looking people in our helmets and padded-ass shorts who think it’s fun to spend hours pedaling away through roads and up mountains, pretending we’re in the Tour de France. But those of us who both run and cycle know a secret: cycling helps make you a better runner. Many runners turn to cycling after injury- that is, they’re forced into riding a bike to stay sane while…
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GTD Times
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Where do you store reference files?
20 Feb 2012 | 8:56 amWhere is the majority of your Reference stored these days? In GTD terms, your Reference is your “non-actionable” materials. Do you keep them stored in digital or hard copy? If you’re mostly digital these days, what works well for you about that over paper? Or, if you’re mostly paper, what works well about that over digital? -
Best practices for Getting Things Done
17 Feb 2012 | 8:41 amMany people have asked for a summary of the GTD best practices that we share in our Keys to Getting Things Done webinars. Here they are! Collect Pay attention to what is grabbing your attention Empty your head Process Make decisions when things show up, not when they blow up Organize Sort your inventory into trusted buckets with “clean edges” Review Keep current and “ahead of the game” Doing Notice how you choose to spend your time (Threefold Nature of Work) Make trusted choices What stands out for you as your biggest improvement opportunity in any of those areas? -
Free podcast: David Allen interviews musician Evan Taubenfeld
15 Feb 2012 | 3:08 pmDavid Allen interviews Evan Taubenfeld, a rock musician, writer, and producer. It’s a fascinating look at how Evan uses GTD in his creative process. It’s available for download now on the David Allen Company podcast page. -
Handling daily activities
12 Feb 2012 | 10:00 amDavid Allen on attention and daily activities. Question: How do we know if the way we are handling our daily activities is right or wrong? David’s answer: It’s not a matter of right or wrong—it’s simply, “Am I appropriately engaged with this and my commitments about it?” So you only need to pay attention to what has your attention. Only things that are not on “cruise control” are grabbing your attention. So you need to decide what you need to do about them, and park the results of that thinking, especially the next action required, in an appropriate… -
Webinars on Keys to GTD, and GTD & Outlook
8 Feb 2012 | 12:10 pmWhat’s your level of GTD expertise? No matter what it is, these interactive and concise 90-minute webinars will deepen your mastery of the GTD best practices. David Allen Company offers these on an “a la carte” basis, giving you the flexibility and affordability to choose just the ones that work for you. Keys to Getting Things Done® This live Webinar will give a fast & fun overview on the keys for Getting Things Done, led by a Senior Coach. Learn about the best practices and tools for managing the five phases of your workflow: Collect, Process, Organize, Review &…
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The Nokia Blog
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Nokia Pureview Teaser Video
21 Feb 2012 | 1:05 pmNokia just uploaded a teaser video for Mobile World Congress titled, “Get ready to capture a pure view.” This almost confirms the rumor about the Nokia N8 successor allegedly called the Nokia 808 PureView. Take a look at the video. The video ends with the date February 27th. That’s also when the Nokia press conference [...]Continue reading Nokia Pureview Teaser Video at The Nokia Blog -
Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle Now Online at Microsoft Store
19 Feb 2012 | 8:55 pmWant the Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle, but don’t live near a Microsoft retail store? Well, now you can buy it at the Microsoft online store. It’s available in Black or Magenta for $899. It’s an insane price, but doesn’t seem so bad if you actually calculate the total cost of buying the devices in [...]Continue reading Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle Now Online at Microsoft Store at The Nokia Blog -
Packaging Photos of Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle
18 Feb 2012 | 2:49 pmThe Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle became available a couple of days ago. Thanks to @bluechrism, we now know how the packaging looks like. He stopped by one of the Microsoft Stores and took some photos. Unfortunately, he couldn’t look inside the box. Check it out. More photos are available at @bluechrism’s Flickr set. While [...]Continue reading Packaging Photos of Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle at The Nokia Blog -
$899 Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle Now Available
16 Feb 2012 | 5:31 pmThe Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle officially goes on display February 26th at Microsoft stores, but you can buy one now if you simply ask. The $899 price tag is a little high, so I’m curious how well the bundle will sell. The Nokia Lumia 800 will be unlocked and contract-free, supporting AT&T’s 3G network. [...]Continue reading $899 Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle Now Available at The Nokia Blog -
Secret Magic Show at Social Media Week NYC Party
13 Feb 2012 | 9:50 pmThe Social Media Week reception party in New York City was hosted by Nokia earlier today. The party was great, but there was something very cool going on behind the scenes. If you checked in to the venue via Foursquare and paid attention to a big billboard on the wall, there was a message to [...]Continue reading Secret Magic Show at Social Media Week NYC Party at The Nokia Blog
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Living Vegan
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Vegetarian food at Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
16 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amIn the past Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (BTRTS) has a restaurant at it's second storey. But apparently it wasn't doing well and closed. Now they have opened their dining hall at the basement where you can get nice and reasonably priced dishes. Mee siam only $3 Mix veg rice Chee cheong fan, with some vegetarian stuffing on the inside. I love chee cheong fan without the black sauce, so this fits perfectly. Subscribe in a reader -
Who says you don't win friends with salad?
11 Feb 2012 | 12:41 am"You don't win friends with salad" - This line was taken from the Simpsons episode when Lisa Simpson went veg. Homer and Bart said this. Anyway, Homer and Bart are wrong about Lisa, you DO win lots of friends as a veg. This pro-veg comic strip was designed for one of my custom tees. If you want to use this strip, please feel free to do so, but please do not alter any content. If you want to do your own pro-veg comic designs, you can use Pixton.com, they have really good graphics and preset characters for you to work on, you can tilt their head, make them jump etc. To watch the simpsons… -
Hozen vegetarian cafe
8 Feb 2012 | 2:53 amA nice place to chill out near bugis. Ambience is clean, quiet and comfortable. The staff were very friendly and nice, I went with my friends and we sat there from lunch till around dinner time, they never chase us out. Not all the dishes are vegan, so be sure to ask about dairy ingredients! When you first enter, you will be served a small shot of cold enzyme. Next up, soup of the day. I love this soup, it was very clear and light. I had the dragon fruit fried rice, which looks pretty exotic. The taste was so-so imo, with a stronger tinge of sweetness than other fried rice. But both my… -
Vegan hand-made dumpling skin and noodles
3 Feb 2012 | 9:10 pmHardly enough time to blog these days. Been some time since the last post! Recently I have been experimenting making dumpling skin and noodles, this is very fun! Background: In Northern China, people usually consume wheat based foods - making their own dumplings or noodles, unlike here in Singapore, where our staple food is more like people in China's south - mainly rice-based food. You may notice an energy difference after eating wheat vs rice, that's one of the reasons why I prefer wheat. If you are not allergic to wheat, I really suggest making your own dumplings or noodles from wheat… -
Pork sausage prank
6 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pmEveryone wants their meat fresh in the supermarket, but everyone is appalled when they see the live animal killed for them for absolute freshness. Some people say that eating meat is natural and that vegans and vegetarians try to use guilt to get others to give up meat. But if eating meat is natural, why in this video, will there be such a reaction to the point these people no longer want to buy the meat? No one is making them feel guilty here. The culprit behind eating meat is greed and it can be overcomed by compassion - as shown in this video. There are more ways to change your perception…
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Engadget Mobile
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T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with AWS spectrum from AT&T
22 Feb 2012 | 10:18 pmIn T-Mobile USA's first earnings report since the proposed merger with AT&T fell through in December, it noted a loss of 802,000 customers in Q4 (being the only carrier not to have the iPhone is a lonely, lonely circumstance). But there is some good news -- thanks to the AWS spectrum it's receiving due to the termination of said deal, it plans to launch LTE services in 2013. Additionally, it plans to spend $4 billion rolling out HSPA+3G/4G services on the 1900 MHz band which should mean high speed data access (in some areas) for previously unsupported devices like the iPhone 4/4S. Also,… -
Samsung's Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC
22 Feb 2012 | 9:19 pmAfter crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in April. According to Samsung, taking just ten months to hit the mark puts it ahead of the original Galaxy S (hovering around 22 million sold) by seven months. The hallmarks of this model -- in its many forms as seen above for AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint -- has been the Super AMOLED Plus screen, slim design and dual core CPUs, all of which made it a record breaker right out of the gate. Samsung's… -
ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place
22 Feb 2012 | 8:05 pmIf the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren't enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it's bringing a total of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The new handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the latest versions of the Android and Windows Phone platforms. This announcement both echos and one-ups the recently announced Mimosa X, which gets its dual-core chops from an NVIDIA Tegra 2, but boasts only HSPA+, rather than the promised LTE. ZTE says it hopes the new devices will help it become one of the world's top three handset… -
LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display
22 Feb 2012 | 7:10 pmIf LG failed to impress so far with the Android 2.3 phones it's shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can turn things around. This 4.7-inch beast will hit Europe in the second quarter and is its first to feature a 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 as its benchmark destroying CPU, a 4.7-inch True HD IPS LCD (1280x720) plus what appears to be a lightly customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich. Perhaps the only logical followup to its Optimus 2X that kicked off all the dual-core madness, it also includes a 2,150mAh battery, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Despite that… -
M3 Android NFC Communicator mixes something old, something new for prepaid subs
22 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmMalaysia may not be on the tip of anyone's tongue when wireless comes to mind, but that's not stopping local outfit DMD Mobile from attempting to make its mark. Set for an official unveiling at next week's Mobile World Congress, the M3 Android NFC Communicator is the outfit's clumsily titled stab at the prepaid market in South Asia and the Middle East. The touchscreen handset, to be available in both 2.6-inch portrait QWERTY and 3.2-inch candybar form factors, comes loaded up with a surprising mix of last- and current-gen specs: 650Mhz single-core CPU running a skinned version of Gingerbread…
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Managed Chaos
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Agile India 2012 Attendees’ Experience in Agile
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Final Profile of all the Registered Agile India 2012 Delegates
12 Feb 2012 | 10:21 pmThe Agile India 2012 Conference is fully sold out. When we finished we had professionals with 317 unique Roles from 220 different Companies worldwide registered. Following is the profile of the registered participants: Companies 3i Infotech Limited ACS ( Xerox GTOD) ADP Pvt Ltd Accelrys Accenture India Accept Software Corporation Aconex Aegisoft Agical Agile Alliance Agile Coaching DK Agile Developer, Inc. AgileFAQs Agilni Associate Alcatel Lucent Allscripts India Pvt. Ltd. Amazon American Express India Pvt Ltd Atlas Systems Pvt. Ltd. Atlassian Axiaware BBC BEA BMC Software BNP Paribas… -
Agile India 2012 Conference TShirt Samples
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Agile India 2012 Lunch Menu
7 Feb 2012 | 2:21 am17th FEBRUARY 2012 18th FEBRUARY 2012 19th FEBRUARY 2012 Cream of Tomato Soup Broccoli and Almond Soup Hot and Sour Vegetable Soup Green Salad Green Salad Kosambari Salad Lacha kachumber Waldrof Salad Kim chi Salad Aloo Matar Chaat Papdi Chaat Crudities with Dip Paneer Do Pyaza Corn and Spinach Augratine Vegetable in Thai Green Curry Aloo Capsicum Roasted Vegetable Frittata Gobi Manchurian( semi gravy) Shahi Kofta Curry Paneer Tikka Lababdar Malai Paneer Tikka Lazzatdar Gobi Matar Aloo Gobi Hara Pyaaz Palak Bhindi Bhurjee Rajma Rasile Dal Makhani Dal Pancharangi Vegetable Pulao Vegetable…
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Can Support and Maintenance Become Agile?
22 Feb 2012 | 3:57 pmAgile methodology has gone from being a manifesto to an industry standard. Most of the product majors are adopting it, which promises to resolve multiple grievances that Waterfall is supposed to have created. The short, time-bound sprints with pre... -
An Agile Team Reset
22 Feb 2012 | 3:43 pmBy its very nature, Scrum is a constant journey of inspection and adaptation. But there comes a time when it's a good idea for an Agile team (mature or not) to take a step back to review and relearn the foundation principles and practices of Scrum... -
A Journey: From Project Manager to ScrumMaster
17 Feb 2012 | 12:44 pmIn the beginning I was a coder. Then, suddenly one day, I found myself a Project Manager. Our PM had left unexpectedly and the call went out for a temporary replacement. I was the last one to bolt for the door, and so there I was: temporary Projec... -
Agile Requirements Definition and Management
10 Feb 2012 | 7:53 amOne of the myths of Agile software development is that documentation is not required or useful. It is true that one of the core values within the Agile Manifesto is Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation. However, note the word over... -
Failure IS an Option
7 Feb 2012 | 10:24 amThis is an article asking you to fail. More precisely: Fail now for greater success later. One of the five Scrum values is courage. Courage to point out problems, ask for help, receive help, and most important take risks even thou...
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Winding road of open-source webOS
2 Feb 2012 | 2:21 pmHP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript framework aside from any success or failure webOS ultimately achieves. -
Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers
14 Jan 2012 | 8:01 pmShim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic – this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited. The shim, once loaded in a device’s browser, opens and maintains a socket connection to the server, according to to Shim’s developers. Shim was written in 2011 by Chris Marstall, Creative Technologist at the Boston Globe. The software has been open sourced. Write… -
HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP
10 Dec 2011 | 6:15 pmFacebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine. Described by Evans is ”a new PHP execution engine based on the HipHop language runtime that we call the HipHop Virtual Machine (hhvm).” He sees it as replacement for the HipHop PHP interpreter (hphpi). He continues: We have long been keenly aware of the limitations to static analysis imposed by such a dynamic language as PHP, not to mention the risks inherent in developing software with hphpi and deploying with hphpc. Our… -
Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices
12 Nov 2011 | 4:04 pmEarlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” The company said it would stop building Flash to run on mobile browsers. In a blog post on the new focus of Flash strategy, Winokur wrote: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work… -
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript
8 Oct 2011 | 10:38 amIntel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vector extensions to improve performance of Web applications. Details of Intel’s attempt to get on the JavaScript juggernaut emerged last month at its developer event. The prototype JavaScript extension offered by Intel is intended to allow JavaScript apps to take advantage of modern parallel chip capabilities. Sequential gives way to parallel, at least in theory. In-browser games and image editing are pitched as examples of application elements that would take advantage of new eight-core…
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Retro:Active #580
20 Feb 2012 | 8:20 pmBranding and packaging for Hawthorn Brewing by Matt Portch. -
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20 Feb 2012 | 7:55 pmBranding and packaging of Lug Tread Ale by Jordan Bamforth. -
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20 Feb 2012 | 7:33 pmBranding and packaging for Bard’s Beer by Hunt Adkins. -
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19 Feb 2012 | 8:52 pmScrapbook collages by Anna Dabrowska-Pekocka. -
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19 Feb 2012 | 8:29 pmBranding design for the “Five & dime” restaurant by Bravo Company. Related posts: Retro:Active #544 Branding for “The Arrogant Butcher” restaurant by Tunnel Bravo....
