I find it ridiculous that, after so many iterations of the Microsoft Windows operating system, we still need a service like Soluto (which won the TechCrunch disrupt 2010 competition) to be able to have a proper personal computing experience and to force the industry to change in the future. No offense intended here, Soluto just tries to lift the burden of all these Microsoft Windows users that have to use their ever slowing and destabilizing machines. However, in my opinion, it’s because of the bad design of Microsoft Windows OS(s) that 3rd party apps can claim resources in the way they do and interfere with stable operation of the system.
We shouldn’t need @Soluto, what we need is a better OS where apps can’t drain resources by design
May 27th, 2010
Why the Apple iPad is a computing revolution in disguise
February 1st, 2010
After the introduction of the Apple iPad most of the blogosphere filled with critiques and rants, specked here and there with some praising stories. I must admit that my very first reaction was also skeptical, but when I took time to view Jobs’s iPad presentation (‘the day after’) and thought a little bit about what this product was about, my opinion started to shift, … big time!
As usual, this post is quite long, so I listed URLs to the sections below for easy navigation:
- It’s the computing usability perspective that counts in this decade
- Digital media consumption made easy?
- Awakening the digital nomad in all of us
- Could future Google Chrome OS devices be a match for Apple’s iPad?
- Will iPad kill eReaders (Kindle)? Yes and No, resulting in a final No.
- Will the iPad save the traditional print media business? Depends.
- The rocky road ahead for iPad and future competitors
- The iPad is a revolution in disguise because …
Google’s online store: a nice surprise to me, but so obvious for Google
January 6th, 2010
The Google online store showing the NexusOne
I must be honest to say that I didn’t follow the whole Nexus One hype too much. Maybe that’s why I was surprised to read on the Engadet’s live blog of the Google Android press conference that Google is launching an online store where (in the future) you can buy more devices, with service plans of different operators.
Chad Scira’s tweet cloud project et al.
November 29th, 2009
Oke, this is fun. Just found this nice project by Chad Scira, tweet cloud. It looks like many of the people I know on Twitter have also found it today. The service Chad developed allows you to create a tag cloud of your twitter messages, showing the words you used most. It is interesting to note that the service can analyze up to a year of tweets if you like. This allows it to make a solid tweet tag cloud, showing some of your ‘Twitter personality’. The created cloud has a nice design too, which is one of things I like about it, see below.
