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Re: Why Don’t People Update Software?

jkuramot — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:24:51 -0000

You're getting at a utility thing there. I don't find TweetDeck to be critical, since I can go to Tweetie or web, if I need to watch Twitter.

O/S updates are different. /me shakes finger.

Re: Why Don’t People Update Software?

megbear — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:00:18 -0000

Couple reasons why I ignore updates -- biggest one is the reboot. Esp. on the mac that is playing my music in the house, I don't want to stop that to run the update (and yes I ignore the bouncing icon for a very long time too, maybe it's a girl thing and it's related to noticing the trash can is full?). In the case of applications like TweetDeck there is also a trust issue as a few of their updates have hosed me up.

Re: A Computer for Your Parents

jkuramot — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:13:36 -0000

In-person support is key, especially for people who prefer it to combing the interwebs for answers or asking in forums, Twitter, etc. My only question now is do I wait for a tablet . . . don't think they'd like one, but still, sounds like it would come with a data plan.

Re: A Computer for Your Parents

megbear — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:59:59 -0000

I tried to get my dad a Dell and sadly it kept giving him problems. We junked it and got him a mac and he is very happy. The Genius bar is the key, it's more comfortable for him to talk to someone in person and his problems get solved without me (w00t).

Re: Inertia and Separation Anxiety Drive Design

jkuramot — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:52:33 -0000

I know, right? I think people would be surprised at how much really goes into even the simplest of software.

Re: Inertia and Separation Anxiety Drive Design

megbear — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:50:03 -0000

I have to agree -- software is hard.

-Meg

Re: http://theappslab.com/2009/02/02/reply-all-riffed/

jkuramot — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:25:13 -0000

My guess is that most people who fail at reply-all only do so once, based on the amount of hate mail they get in reply.

Wash your hands notes in the bathroom make sense for food service restrooms, not so much for other places :) We do like to tell people what to do, e.g. the green footer, don't print this email unless you really hate the Earth.

Re: http://theappslab.com/2009/02/02/reply-all-riffed/

megbear — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:56:07 -0000

I'm with you Jake. I see these are funny and as a "teaching moment" for the person who screws up but attempting to solve bad behavior with technology just backfires. It's like the discussion on whether HR should have to put "wash your hands" notes up in the bathroom. If people are not going to wash their hands a note isn't going to get them to do it.

Re: What Gadgets Did You Get over the Holidays?

jkuramot — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:12:42 -0000

Wireless thingy for the TiVo is dead simple. The hardest part is typing the WAP password using the remote; worse if you're using WEP. When the first came out with that thingy, it only supported WEP, which is both a) really insecure and b) a really long string of digits. WAP support was a double-win.

I'm jealous of the Netflix feature. Pondering a Series 3/HD upgrade.

Kindle! Wow, review that when you get it. I'm curious about it.

Re: What Gadgets Did You Get over the Holidays?

megbear — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:11:35 -0000

I have two pending gadgets. 1) the wireless thingy for the Tivo -- this I have but haven't hooked up yet. It's going to allow us to use the Netflix feature 2) the Kindle book. This I have ordered but it's still backordered but I'm looking forward to it. So this is 2 gadgets from a girl who doesn't like gadgets... hmm...

Re: Poll: Do You Want Moar Content?

jkuramot — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:52:33 -0000

Sure, I have no problem sharing my opinions. I wish the blog reflected the team more, and not just b/c it get tedious to blog so much.

It's looking like a clean sweep against. I'm glad we didn't invest any effort.

Re: Poll: Do You Want Moar Content?

megbear — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:30:12 -0000

I prefer hearing what Jake (and Rich and Paul) have to say. Not so interested in reading a bunch of other stuff. I come here for your opinions.

Re: 20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless

jkuramot — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:03:41 -0000

But we already had that before the App Store with the iPhone-optimized version of FB, saved to the Home Screen complete with a snazzy iPhone icon.

It's functionally identical to the app version, right down to the nice icon. So, you wonder why FB bothered to commit the resources to building an app. Now maybe if the app supported FB chat running in the background, it would be worth it, but as we know, nothing can run in the background unless it's built by Apple.

This is the same story with many of the apps. Don't get me started on the useless, I mean "fun", apps.

Re: 20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless

megbear — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:11:56 -0000

Actually I like having these things be applications. Without that I might never think to use them. Yes, I know this gets me thrown off the "technical" island but I'm just saying I like searching the application store and finding something that says "Facebook' there for me that puts the icon on my desktop for me. Maybe the real answer is to make that "application" be very lightweight so that there isn't much extra development work to offer this convenience to me.

Re: Vi Rules!

megbear — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:57:52 -0000

:1, $ s/emacs/vi

at least I *think* I remember a useful skill or two.

You can find out all about how I learned vi here (http://talentedapps.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/fi...)

;-)

Re: Why Stickers are My New Business Card

jkuramot — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:46 -0000

Stickers are for everyone, e.g. my wife thinks I'm a giant dorky child for putting stickers on my Macbook. A bit like bumper stickers, which I won't put on my car, but my laptops are like additional limbs, so it's OK. Like tattoos.

Re: Why Stickers are My New Business Card

megbear — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:35:16 -0000

While I do want a sticker I don't think I want it for my laptop. Feels a bit like a bumper sticker to me which I also don't want on my car. Guess I'm not a real geek.

Re: Good Old Fashioned Vote Storm

megbear — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:22:30 -0000

Thanks for the info on voting often I'll wait for Rich to submit some more ideas and then stuff the ballot box ;-)

Re: Unconference News and Preparation

jkuramot — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:23:55 -0000

You and Steve both went with the eyes as avatars approach. Mildly unsettling.

I realized last week that this session overlaps Larry's keynote, so if I stay in the current slot, I doubt it will matter how big or small the font is. I'm going to try to switch onsite, so we'll see what happens. The text isn't all that important anyway, IMO. I uploaded the presentation so it could be reviewed before/after; focus is on content.

I did bump most of the text up to 24.

Re: Unconference News and Preparation

megbear — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:30:58 -0000

well you should have guessed it was a lame story. I couldn't figure out how to resize my whole photo when I setup Discus so instead I used the part of the photo that fit into the given box and my eye seemed somehow logical ;-)

I do recommend re-thinking 20, esp if people are leaning in to see...

Re: Unconference News and Preparation

jkuramot — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:25:43 -0000

Most of the text is 44 and 20, but I can bump the smaller text higher. If the format is the same as last year, it's not even a room really. Just a cubby hole in the Overlook portions of the conference hall.

This is why I released to SlideShare in advance too.

What's with the eyes as avatars anyway?

Re: Unconference News and Preparation

megbear — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:17:15 -0000

great presentation, LOVE the style- - I'm a bit worried about font size, how big is the room? Slide:ology has all this complex math about how big you are supposed to make the font but the short version is that you should certainly stay above 24 pt for everything and edge up to 30 point for big rooms and old people attending..

Re: Why Flickr Rules Even if You Don’t Share Photos

jkuramot — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:05:04 -0000

Me too, I used to use Google Image Search to find keywords, but that's not as useful as searching Flickr because the images are tagged and described, not just near a keyword on a web page somewhere.

Re: What’s Left to Murder-Death-Kill?

David Haimes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:45:25 -0000

Cool Brit - that's me :)

Re: What’s Left to Murder-Death-Kill?

jkuramot — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:44:30 -0000

Interesting technique. Having a case of it now, I think I mentioned tagging IRL over Twitter, i.e. how nice it would be to tag your words so people wouldn't have trouble with attribution. Like thought Post-Its.