Om, on “agertainment”
My social media rule No. 1 for our present rancor-filled times is that I will mute any account (a person or a media outlet) that I think is creating more heat than light
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Proper Quotes in Perplexity
I found Perplexity to be one of the most transparent AIs when it comes to sourcing information. It displays articles, authors, and proper notes in highly visible locations. In comparison to almost all other AI chatbots, Perplexity (including Perplexity Pro) comes across as a well-prepared student, complete with quotes and
I found Perplexity to be one of the most transparent AIs
I found Perplexity to be one of the most transparent AIs in terms of sources: it shows articles, authors, notes, with proper notes which are placed in highly visible places. Compared to almost all other AI chatbots, Perplexity (not only Perplexity Pro) is a well prepared student, with quotes and
On Apple’s 30% cut: obsolete, frustrating and lazy
Basecamp is right, Apple is wrong, at least from tactical perspective. Here is why: Apple cannot track the devs the way it dreams it can I’m looking at my 20-something subscriptions I used to have in AppStore, 5 of them expired this year, another 4 will expire til the
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Gestures or Mouse - in OS X Lion
We all saw OS X Lion; it’s touch and gesture based, it resembles iOS big time. Maybe this resemblance makes me see the mouse cursor as something that does not belong there anymore. Swiping, tapping, page-scrolling and so on are the enemies of the cursor. When migrating to a
The Albanian virus
The Albanian virus There’s an old joke about the Albanian virus. This virus was just an email message reading: “I’m an Albanian virus, so I can’t do any harm to your computer. Please be so kind and delete some of the important system files on my behalf.
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Bloomber Businessweek for iPad
“Bloomberg Businessweek +” for iPad is a real treat to the eye! Extremely friendly, simple, readable and, gush, you actually don’t have to be a rocket scientist to pay for it! I hope Murdoch will fire the guys doing The Daily’s UI and NYT will learn some product placement.
There is no iPhone
Although it may look quite the opposite, Apple’s main task was not to make a popular, thus a visible device, but to make it fully transparent and even invisible, from user perspective. They managed to build a device that you can easily forget about, especially when you are using
Europe anti-trust trial against Google
Europe says Google is wrong placing its own preferred results at the top of the results page. Guys, are you stupid?! Google is building all the results! placing a result anyware in their own structure is a fucking decoy!
In this video you see “UZU” by Jason Smith, nicely covered by Arstechnica and shot with my iPhone at 4 AM. Arstechnica: “Uzu reacts to touches
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“When technology gets out of the way, everything becomes more delightful, even magical”. Motorola, Samsung, LG, HTC and all the others hardware pr
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Google's greatest April fool prank
What do you know, maybe Google restricting access to Android is its greatest April fool? Yeah!