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René Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks “Would you like a beer?”. Descartes says “I think not” and promptly vanishes.
minima-list // mnl.st
Communication design & technology. Sharing media & communication news, design resources and technology innovations.
Promoting new business and entrepreneurial spirit. Having fun while spreading the news.
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2012-05-31
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Hammer.js - easy multitouch gestures for sites
Hammer.js is a small library for handling touch events. You can add tap (touch/click), double tap, hold, drag (touchmove/mousemove), swipe, and transform (pinch) events to any website. Comes as a jQuery plugin as well. Go check the demo. [via]
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2012-05-28
All your houses are belong to Facebook
Two robbers have paid a visit to a house in south-eastern Australia, hours after a teenager posted a photo on Facebook of a large sum of cash. The masked men, armed with a knife and a club, struck the home of the 17-year-old girl’s mother in the country town of Bundanoon on Thursday, police say.
Because Facebook is for meeting nice new people.
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2012-05-27
Soundcloud Downloader. I'm a pirate, baby!
When I saw ‘Drive,’ I fell for the soundtrack. ‘College’, I mean. I’m not a fan of d’n’b and its bastard dubstep, but I like electronic music. Old-school electro, whose parents descend from psychedelic and synthesizers. The ‘Drive’ sountrack is just that, and the French dude David Grellier is doing a hell of a job with his project College. What happens when you like the music but you can’t buy it? Well, you become a pirate. And if you find the music on SoundCloud.com… It’s how I found SoundCloud Downloader. I don’t have to explain what it does, do I? Anyway, If you liked College, here’s the link to the tunes. Enjoy.
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Sources familiar with the matter
Stop quoting “Sources familiar with the matter”, Asian websites lazily thrown into Google translate, Apple Supplier Press Releases or the way Tim Cook holds his coffee cup in the morning; it’s lazy shitty reporting and only serves to make you look like an asshole when you’re inevitably proven wrong or called out on your bullshit.
I love this piece. Read it all. It’s about how Apple rumors are made (up).
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2012-05-24
Kids future is on Facebook
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Comma man returns
I love how Ben Yagoda explains English grammar. Today, another good article. Now, I’m a grammar freak by default (well, not an English grammar freak, as long as I’m not a native speaker, but I’m trying to become one) and I’m quite interested in this stuff. But what I love the most is the fact that The New York Times actually promotes good punctuation. That’s something you don’t see everyday. Respect!
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2012-05-14
Nillionaire
adj. Someone having little to no money— Stolen from some picture pinned on Pinterest.
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Apple products in 40 percent of 2011's top movies
Now, that’s wowing.
The bottom line: Apple products were in more than 40 percent of top movies last year, an advantage as traditional advertising falls flat.
All the details, in BusinessWeek.
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2012-05-10
Apparently, Gmail hates Chrome
Funny thing how two Google products can’t stand each other. Of course, I’m kidding, but I kid you not publishing the image above. That’s a real GMail error shown in Google’s own browser, Chrome (which, by the way, has autoupdates turned on). For posterity (unless you want to click the picture for the larger size,) here’s what the error states:
We’re sorry. It seems there is a problem. Please try using Gmail with a supported browser. If you’re encountering this error while using a supported browser, we suggest alerting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) that a proxy is failing to accept cookies on HTTP redirects. Click here to return to Gmail. You’ll need to sign in to your account.
PS: No internet connection, no network nor proxy problems whatsoever. Just a Google error (The image was a bit edited: URL and bookmarks bar were photoshopped for privacy reasons.)
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HP’s VP of Industrial Design is not a designer?
Stacy Wolff is HP’s Vice President of Industrial Design. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in industrial design from Michigan State University. That pretty much makes him a designer. What doesn’t make him a designer is his lack of eye in design. Check this out:
I think if you look at the new Spectre XT, there are similarities in a way, not due to Apple but due to the way technologies developed. Apple may like to think that they own silver, but they don’t. In no way did HP try to mimic Apple. In life there are a lot of similarities.
Cool, huh? Is it me or a guy who can’t see the [lack of] differences between a Spectre XT and a MacBook Air isn’t supposed to be a designer?
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2012-05-08
The “rule of the three” in technology
I might be writing an absolutely stupid rant here, but I find myself looking at a pattern. I’m reading tons of stuff about technology, both business-wise and technical-wise and I follow most of the trends news. And most of these news, if you’re looking at the big picture, led me to believe there’s an unwritten “rule of the three” in technology. This can only be demonstrated with examples.
When it comes to computer operating systems, there are exactly three of them dominating the market: Windows, OSX and Linux (yeah, I know there are a ton of different versions, but this is irrelevant). When it comes to smartphone operating systems, there are exactly three: iOS, Android and, most recently, Windows Phone 7 (yeah, there’s Blackberry and there’s Symbian, but they’re dying.) If we’re talking about smartphones producers, we only have three that we’ll continue to grow: Apple, Samsung and HTC. We can include in this technology domain a niche in which we’ll only have three big companies for financial products: Visa, MasterCard and AMEX.
So, this rule basically states that there will always be no more than three companies or products that will dominate one technology market. So, in any technology market, there will always be three important companies or products getting probably 90% of the market versus everyone else, without many chances to emerge.
Of course, I might be exaggerating a bit, but if you’re doing the math, the first three companies take the cream and everyone else is destined to fail in that market. For instance, in the mobile market, besides Apple, Samsung and HTC, we have Sony, a company that never actually sold enough to justify its smartphone division. Then, there’s LG, a company that invested in smartphones, but never really had any chances to grow because
their strategythey had no strategy. When it comes to operating systems, LG had its own attempt, Samsung tried Bada, and, all in all, besides iOS, Android and WP7, all the others are doomed.I think this is quite interesting.
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2012-05-05
AdeleA Dell. Rolling in the Deep. -
2012-05-03
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
— John Lennon
