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Bubbles
Swiss Miss,
Completely in love with this art installation by Rafael Sommerhalder.
The History of Cover Flow
mjtsai,
Andrew Coulter Enright (in 2005): I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the […]
Atlassian Acquires Loom
Atlassian (via Hacker News): Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every month by their 200,000 passionate customers. […] As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders […]
Relative Time Labels
Nikita Prokopov: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here […]
iPhone SE 4 Rumors
Marko Zivkovic: The iPhone SE 4, known internally under the codename Ghost, is expected to receive a new design derived almost entirely from the base model iPhone 14.[…]As far as the chassis is concerned, two major changes are expected – an Action button and a USB-C port.[…]As for the back of the device, the next […]
I Just Really Don’t Like Automated Phone Systems
Cabel,
I’m a simple man. I just wanted to know if the drink machine was working. Is that so much to ask PS: if you actually make it to the end of this three minute hell, your reward is a surprise phone system hack
Kaleidoscope 4.2
Christopher Atlan (tweet): In the window title bar you’ll see a new element that gives you more detail about the task. You’ll see how many conflicts you still need to resolve in that file.[…]The window has a new area between the title bar and the Path Bar. We call it Context Shelf. […] In the […]
FCC Plans to Reinstate Network Neutrality
Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information, five years after they were repealed by then-president Donald Trump in 2018.Previous net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 classified broadband service under public utility rules […]