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🖖🏻 Internet 2022 - ONE thing you can do to make it better?

"Old Data Never Dies"—Or maybe it does! Some companies are actually cleaning up their accounts. So maybe people are catching on to the fakeness of it all?? Blockchain might be a way that people could "own" eBooks and have all the options of selling, shari

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🫤 Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent | TikTok | The Guardian

🫤 Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent | TikTok | The Guardian

Maree describes being given flowers by Harrison Pawluk in a ‘random act of kindness’ video as ‘patronising’ — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/melbourne-woman-dehumanised-by-viral-tiktok-filmed-without-her-consent I agree with her. It’s “patronising” because Pawluk presumptuously assumes—without having an actual conversation with the woman—that he is somehow ‘in a better place’…

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🙏🏻 Hope for Tech - And the winner is...Microsoft!!

—Apple, I feel like I'm in Bizarro world.

—TechWite’s Do the Right Thing (“Tee DRaT“) Award for 2022!!As former self-appointed Vice President in charge of Doing the Right Thing at Apple, —known “inside the donut” as the “EViP of DRaT” — it’s my pleasure to announce that Microsoft wins TechWite’s “Do the Right Thing” Award!! In this MS vs FB competition, Facebook says it can identify a user’s emotional state and share that with…

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Hey Tim. Here's a "Portrait" icon. See? It's taller.

What if one day Captain Aubrey decided that Port would be Starboard from now on? There'd be mutiny!!

There be gremlins? A ghost in the big giant Apple machine? An Easter Egg? Or somebody’s idea of a joke? Because a couple of important icons have gotten switched!! And “icons”, little pictures that we rely on to represent certain very specific things, are important! You can’t just go switching them around! You’ll defeat their purpose. You’ll make them unreliable. I mean, what if somebody changed…

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Hey Tim. Here's a "Portrait" icon. See? It's taller.

There be gremlins? A ghost in the big giant Apple machine? An Easter Egg? Or somebody's idea of a joke?

There be gremlins? A ghost in the big giant Apple machine? An Easter Egg? Or somebody’s idea of a joke? Because a couple of important icons have gotten switched!! And “icons”, little pictures that we rely on to represent certain very specific things, are important! You can’t just go switching them around! You’ll defeat their purpose. You’ll make them unreliable. I mean, what if somebody changed…

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#Apple #Don Norman #Icons #Interface #iOS #ipad #iphone #Photography #Steve Jobs #Steve Krug #Suggestion #Think Different #Tim Cook #User Experience #User Inteface

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Hipsters, audiophiles, and young people like vinyl, but why?

Is it the sound? I’m not against vinyl, I’m just against dumb reasons for justifying its use.

A friend has been raving about Spotify (or other streaming music services) for several years. It’s hugely convenient, you have access to TONS of music whenever you want, and the quality is “digital”. Can’t argue the first two points, but as for the “quality”—at least when I had Sirius some years ago—I was frequently annoyed with the “flanging” distortion in streamed music. Same with Pandora,…

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#Analog Music #CDs #Digital Music #HiFi #Hipsters #History #iTunes #LPs #Music #RIAA #Sound #Streaming Music #User Experience #Vinyl

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CLI

CLI: Command Line Interface—How people controlled computers PM (Prior to Mac). THERE WAS NO MOUSE. A “prompt” – that is, a colon, or carat, or some other obscure character from your (physical) keyboard – appeared on the screen. This was equivalent to your dog looking up at you with THAT LOOK. If you knew the commands, you could TYPE one in and probably press [Return] or [Enter], and the…

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#Computers #GUI #History #Interface #User Experience

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So-Called “Creators” vs. #GoodTech

“Creators” No, sorry...you’re not all going to get paid $125 million a year like Slappy Dingdong.

Sheesh. “Creators”. Not to be confused with “Creatives”, those UX Designers, Graphic Artists, and other creative people for whom I have a great deal of respect. No, “Creators”—often called “Influencers”—frequently celebrities, but also the kids who make some brain dead cat video or self-absorbed “Hey guys!”, eye shadow review, and thousands of other kids watch it, and brands offer them big bucks…

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🙏🏻QR Code Controversy? Really? Calm down America.

🙏🏻QR Code Controversy? Really? Calm down America.

Since Covid, QR Codes have become popular, especially as a “no-touch” tool to view a restaurant menu using a cell phone. Sometimes you can even order and pay using your cell phone. Although this New York Times article doesn’t outright suggest that using QR codes is risky or dangerous or a threat to your online privacy, it doesn’t do much to explain how a QR Code works, leading many readers to…

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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

The New York Times – Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, science, health, arts, sports and more. — Read on www.nytimes.com/

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😎 Apple Flashback 2001: Dell Fire Hazard

"I'm a PC, and I'm on Fire!"— "Unpredictable Mac", Explored the difference between Macs and PCs back when it mattered...

“I’m a PC, and I’m on Fire!”— Snail promotes Intel, Justin Long promotes Mac, er, Windows…  A long time ago, “Unpredictable Mac”, Explored the difference between Macs and PCs when it mattered…   “Hey, Dell just recalled 200 THOUSAND plus batteries from their Wintel laptops because of overheating. There is at least one known case of a battery causing a fire. This is the SECOND major recall of…

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#Apple #Apple Flashback #Batteries #Battery Fires #Battery Recall #Dell #History #Intel #Justin Long #Mac vs. PC #Marketing #Microsoft #Platform Wars #Windows

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Back From the Dead—But not using a bootable drive...

Back From the Dead—But not using a bootable drive…

My Mac Backup Strategy, was: 1. Backup to Time Machine regularly to have access to that data 2. Backup regularly to a fast “bootable” external drive “clone” using a nifty 3rd party tool such as SuperDuper. Having an external bootable backup meant that if your internal drive(s) failed, you could quickly fire up a workable system and continue working, until you restore it all to a replacement…

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#Apple #Cloud #Mac #Macintosh #Tips

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Notice of Updated Terms of Use & Privacy Policy - September 2017

Notice of Updated Terms of Use & Privacy Policy – September 2017

From: Ladders <jobs> Date: September 3, 2017 at 8:00:43 AM EDT Subject: Notice of Updated Terms of Use & Privacy Policy – September 2017 Reply-To: jobs

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Clickbait is Killing the Internet

Think before you click. It could save your life, a few minutes at a time.

Did that headline get your attention? Did you click a link to get here? Why? What did you expect to see? Okay, sorry, that title was “clickbait”. I want you to read my blog. I want you to stop whatever you were doing and visit the TechWite site, so I created a sensational title. That was my motivation. What was yours? It’s worth thinking about…

Clickbait – Do we really need to define this? It is…

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Apple Flashback 2001: SoundJam a Goner

...iTunes—the baffling compost pile of all Apple media—fifteen years ago, was a gem!

Still Waiting for the music alarm… October, 2016, iTunesversion 12.5.2 released. By most accounts iTunes is still a mess, as Apple tries to clean up the application that has for years devolved into the baffling, unmanageable compost pile of all Apple media. But fifteen years ago, iTunes was a gem, a minimal Apple interface quickly slapped on top of a great third party app called “SoundJam”…

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The Federation is Going to Hell

Flashback 1995: The Federation is Going to Hell

Flashback: September 23, 1995

Life was so much simpler then. Or was it? Not for the Star Trek Population of three or four quadrants. At the time, I had a friend in the US Foreign Service posted in some obscure country who wasn’t getting to see anyof the new shows. There was NO video on the incipient Internet of course. He tried to get his hands on some episodes on VHS (tape), but was hopelessly…

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#Deep Space Nine #Gamma Quadrant #Generations #Klingons #Star Trek #The Federation #The Next Generation #The Undiscovered Country #Voyager