Cut With Flourish: Archive

Mar 30th

“It must suck so much to have to explain that, no, really, you’re not that...”

– Freaking tell me about it. That’s why I cut my hair. Your better half

Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

The science wordplay keeps coming

Although I still feel you should always test on actual apps, like an actual user, if something like Alkaline lets you test earlier and test more it’s worth its weight in Gold. Certainly makes a Litmus account more attractive. It also means you don’t have to use a PC as much. via Simple Bits

Mar 30th

“despite their enormous resources, Nintendo is moving to ever-smaller development...”

– Nintendo’s Iwata on Iterative Prototypes, Teaching Programmers Rhythm

Mar 30th

There's always some things missing.

Skype for iPhone is on the way, but as usual there are some issues. Hopefully the push notifications in 3.0 will allow incoming calls at any time but WHY no calls on the actual phone network? Is Apple’s revenue from deals with carriers screwing subscribers? Or is this another misguided attempt by Apple to protect users from themselves? Either way I think it’s kind of crap. ...

Mar 30th

“It’s important that our frontline workers don’t cop abuse from...”

– I think the fact that City Rail provides shit service is more likely to cause abuse than any iPhone application. Rees orders RailCorp to talk to iPhone app makers - BizTech - Technology

Mar 29th

If it's easy to use, people use it.

Google have the right idea. Or at least someone from Google does. Although he freely admits his bias in asking for more access to the web for mobile users, I think Vic Gundotra is right when he suggests that in trying to make money from something, carriers have tiered, packaged and priced the mobile internet into submission. Apple seem to be interested in doing something similar with Music....

Mar 29th

Enterprise Twitter

Present.ly is enterprise Twitter. I guess the key differences to email are: A character limit (handy I think); It’s public by default and it has a better interface than Outlook (Google Apps, or just switching to mac anyone?). I look forward to a time in the workplace where my expected pain in trying to get people to use something like this would be outweighed by the advantages. Now does...

Mar 29th

Mar 27th

“One of the most famous drinkers of Köstritzer Schwarzbier was Johann Wolfgang...”

– I know what I’m doing next time I’m sick. Köstritzer - Wikipedia

Mar 27th

Five Islands Brewing Company →

Best beer puns this year. Porter Kembla! Wow.

Mar 27th

“His advice on how to charm the fairer sex? “Obviously, play my records for...”

– Bryan Ferry

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Mar 23rd

Job title design

Chiara Fox from Adapative Path has announced she’s no longer an Information Architect. I think Chiara nicely captures how the shift in job titles is based on shifts in practice. I wonder if she has any tips on how to explain the role (whatever you chose to call it) to older relatives?

Mar 23rd