December 2011
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“How would you do it differently if the building were burning down?”
– Seth Godin
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“Why bother going to a meeting, if you’re not prepared to change your mind?”
– Al Pittampalli
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CLIENT: You should have indicated a problem with the app sooner.
CONTRACTOR: It was only just made available to me at launch. As soon as I saw the problem, I flagged it.
CLIENT: But you should have looked for a problem sooner.
CONTRACTOR: I just saw it for the first time. I wasn’t involved with the project until now. You just hired me.
CLIENT: That’s not true - I sent you an e-mail three months ago about it. Where I said I found someone to make the app at a lower price. Remember?
CONTRACTOR: I think so. How’d that work out?
VIA: http://ClientsFromHell.net
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Mr. Sulu's Rules for Living
1. Show up 2. On time 3. Work hard 4. Be kind
I do wish many of my students understood just how far the first three of these rules will get you. Number four is a bonus, and at the least should always be practiced DOWN: be nice to office staff, building service workers, groundskeepers, wait staff, and the like, since they are essential and doing what are quite often terrible jobs. Sycophantic...
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As web ads become more and more annoying...
“I’m doing the majority of my reading in RSS and Instapaper where I can read in peace without being pummeled by distractions.”
- Rian van der Merwe
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inches are for printers
There’s only one situation in which inches are a useful measure of digital images: when you print them. We measure the size of the paper it is printed on, such as a 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of letter-size paper, or a 4 x 6 inch photograph.
While the quality of a printed image can be measured by counting how many dots-per-inch (DPI) were used to print it. Dots-per-inch means what is says: 300 DPI...
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count the dots
A lot of folks get confused about how to measure the visual size of photos and other images that are created or viewed on their computers.
The simplest way is by counting how many pixels (tiny dots) were used to make that image. A thumbnail-size photo, like those in your Friends List on Facebook, might only be 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels high. The video you watch on YouTube might be 560 x 315...
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“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– Andy Baio
#art #quote
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bargain apps I actually want
Having concluded that the two best calendar applications for the Mac seem to be BusyCal and Fantastical… Having realized that they can each be used alone, or in combination with the other… Telling you that they can also be used with or instead of iCal or Outlook… Planning to synchronize my professional and personal calendars to “the cloud”, using BusyCal…
I was...
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“calling the Web ‘dead’ because apps make more money is like reading...”
– Doc Searls (paraphrased)