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Jakob Nielsen: The UI is littered withswipe ambiguity, where similar (or identical) gestures have different outcomes depending on subtle details in how they’re activated or executed. For example, start swiping from the right to the left and you will either scroll the screen horizontally or reveal the charm bar, depending on exactly where your finger…

MG Siegler reviews the Surface for AOL TechCrunch: After using it for over a week now, it’s hard to come up with a lot of nice things to say about the Surface. Don’t get me wrong, there are some solid things here. But by and large, it’s a strange, buggy, and clunky product that I…

GitHub: Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. The amount? $100,000,000. Even in today’s money this is a fair amount of capital for GitHub to have on-hand. What will this be used for? GitHub mentions, in several of the quotes posted to various tech news outlets, that they…

David Kravets for Wired: Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software from its search results — with about half of those requests for removal last month coming from Microsoft. Interesting stuff. I’m surprised that number is so low. I’m not surprised that…

Like Mahdi Yusuf’s month-long foray using DuckDuckGo Farhad Manjoo spends a week with Bing. His first impressions were good: The new Bing is like the old Google—your results are presented on a clean, uncluttered page consisting of a lot of links and a few unobtrusive ads. But, like so many others, he realized how trapped…

Ben Yagoda on the use of the comma: You see this kind of thing all over the Internet as well. People punctuate that way because, if they spoke these sentences, they’d pause after the conjunction (and because the extremely fanciful and undependable Microsoft Word grammar and style checker refrains from applying a squiggly green underline).…

According to the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Jobs reportedly told Google’s Larry Page: [figure] out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning…

Joseph Parish on The Verge: "Experian Hitwise has released its yearly search term statistics and once again, Facebook and YouTube top the list. The remainder of the top 10 includes three more Facebook-related terms, a couple of Yahoo! variants, craigslist, eBay, and MapQuest. Of course it’s highly unlikely that all the millions of people putting…

Neat app from Microsoft. Photosynth.

Apple vs. Microsoft was a tech war for the ages. The two companies battled each other vigorously. Who won? Some would say Microsoft clearly won based on marketshare while others think they simply sold out and made an inferior product to Apple. However, the clear winner was neither company – it was us, the consumers,…

If you’re going to do a demonstration of Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft’s – most popular in the world – operating system, you might as well do it on an iMac. [viddler id-b32b9577 h-278 w-420] Via Viddler.

Taken on October 15, 2004. Five years ago today: Well, not really. I haven’t been keeping up with my "five years ago today posts" and so this one is a bit late. Switching to the Macintosh was a fairly long process for me due to the work I was doing at the time. My having…

Roz Savage, the Ocean Rower I linked to the other day, recently mentioned that she was a feature on Bing.com’s home page. Since I’m a few days behind on reading her posts she was no longer featured on the home page by the time I got there. I noticed that Bing.com’s home page features have…

Keyboard shortcuts, both for the browser itself and for Web sites that take advantage of them, can be extremely powerful. Google Reader set the precedent for keyboard shortcuts by working through a stream of information using J to advance and K to move backward through the stream. The Big Picture, Ffffound, and now Tumblr’s Dashboard…

What the Wii brought to gaming can not be denied. Movement, realism, and let’s face it – fun. Project Natal, for the Xbox 360, is going to attempt to do the same thing but with less hardware – meaning; absolutely no controllers. [viddler id-44771808 h-278 w-420] What makes this project even more interesting is that…

Date taken: February 4, 2004 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Five years ago today: I used to teach a short-lived class in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at a small computer store. The class typically consisted of basic software instructions like Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook training. We also covered some larger topics like the Internet and eBay. For a few…

It is only mid-November but I’m confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn’t a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of rules. They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this…

Google’s Chrome, the new Web browser by Google, has been getting a lot of attention because of its simple approach to browsing the Web.  But there is more here than meets the eye. It is all about the approach. The new application has its flaws, for sure, but what it gets wrong it makes up…

My friend Matt, a fan of all things Apple and future switcher, owns a laptop. Actually it is a tablet-PC and has all of the latest hardware and software including a 64bit processor and gobs of RAM. Though my blood runs thick with Mac-cells, I know a good piece of hardware when I see it,…

The numbers make it obvious, but the experience makes it real. Recently I’ve had a lot of family members, friends, and even people I’ve never met before tell me that they were "thinking of switching" to the Macintosh platform or, in their words "gettin’ a Mac". Obviously we’re seeing switcher stories pop up all over…

Over the last few months something has come to my attention that has slowly revealed itself in a few different forms. Being entertained by "what is happening today" gets boring really fast and finding what your own personal interests are can be increasingly difficult if you are. I suppose this needs a little bit of…

So it turns out the word "Zune", which is also the name of Microsoft’s iPod "competitor", means F*** in Hebrew. Almost. [tags]zune, microsoft, ipod, hebrew, language[/tags]