When I do speaking gigs, I open with a few questions to get to know the audience. I’m looking for a couple of key demographic numbers to gauge how much to focus on and tune different themes in any given talk. I ask: How many self-identified Apple people? (Typography jokes = ok.) How many engineers?… more
I’ve used Things longer than any other productivity system; this weekend I threw it away. Things had its chance. I was initially enamored with it because the application forced very little religion on me and also easily adapted to my different productivity experiments I wanted to develop. The interface was simple, the application was stable,… more
Sticking with our Keynote theme for the week, Andy has solid and usable advice for building your non-boring slide deck. One thing I would add is to create a test slide at the beginning of your deck which contains the following:
Something like this:
The reason for this slide is so that when you’re doing that inevitable run through of your deck, you can easily answer the questions:
UPDATE: Here’s an awesome fork by Tim Brown in Keynote.
SECOND UPDATE: Here’s the current version that I’m using which is used in the screenshot above. You’ll likely receive a font warning when you open this and that’s the point.
In posing a real threat to Facebook, Snapchat proved that it may have that one elusive thing that no money can buy: the ability to change how people behave, to become central to their relationships with one another, to re-architect human contact, to be masters of the human domain.
Best analysis of Snapchat’s rejection of the Facebook bid that I’ve seen.
As I mentioned in the launch post, there are now two RSS feeds for Rands. One feed contains every single post that I throw up here which includes a new type I called Excerpts – you’re reading an Excerpt right now. I’m still getting a feel for these posts, but my intent is they will:
If you’re reading this in a RSS-reader, you are already subscribed to Everything. Welcome. If you’d like to remove Excerpts from your content, you can subscribe to the Long Form feed.
As I’ve written before, I am a comfortable power user of Keynote. My entire presentation development workflow exists inside of Keynote through the use of the outline view, presentation notes, and a bevy of stickies to remind me “need funny image here”. It took work and patience to build the ideal workflow. I needed to… more
It seems that Peak has a lot of potential, but the team working on it should take all this into consideration. I’m sure that they mean well and, in an ideal world, people will take the metrics as they are – possibly flawed outputs of a complex process aimed at creating value for the company. […]
Except we’re not in a perfect world.
Managers will abuse it, employees will game it.
We engineers like to measure things. In a world full of chaos and confusing humans, the ability to measure a thing gives us both a comfortable course of action as well a delicious delicious data. I believe there is a huge opportunity for applications like Peak to derive insight from the various tools we engineers use to build, but I treat mechanized derived insight with extreme skepticism. It’s rarely a reason to take decisive action and usually a reason to start asking more questions.
The hardness of sapphire will make it resistance to ‘flaw initiation’ (aka starting to scratch) and its ‘toughness’ is how it resists fracture once a flaw has begun (cracking altogether). This strength doesn’t come without a bit of cost, Hall notes. “The density of Gorilla Glass is 2.54 g/cm3 while sapphire is 3.98 g/cm3. Given equal-sized pieces, Gorilla Glass will always be lighter.”
The counter-point to the greater weight is that Apple could use thinner pieces of sapphire due to its greater strength overall. This would result in weight and thickness reduction, which is something Apple is very conscious about. You may have noticed that the latest iPad Air was reduced in thickness in part due to its use of thinner glass and IGZO display panels.
In what is a first in my gaming experience, after years of not playing World of Warcraft, I fired the game up several months ago and have been actively playing – leveling several toons including a panda. This that while I shouldn’t care about Worlds of Draenor at all, I actually care more than I should.
As near as I can tell, this Twitter robot will DM you when folks you follow start following someone that you don’t follow. I don’t follow a lot of folks, but it is true that I will give greater consideration to folks that my friends are following. Say that ten time fast. Recommendations are infrequent and, so far, worth investigating.