The title of the article was "4 reasons why we are leaving Dropbox" and not "10 alternatives to Dropbox", which would be an interesting, but totally different article on it's own. It is good to read about these issues, as these days many people think about moving from A to B in cloud storage.
Personally i moved all my storage, contacts and calendars over to a self-hosted owncloud instance, which i did not regret so far. But i'm not going to write an article about it ...
Looks really cool. And i love Python.
However, I think the Python Syntax will make it hard to minify the code, which is probably not that important anyway when not in production. But for production usage it would be cool to have a real compiler instead of an interpreter.
I would prefer a settings page where i can opt in oder out for certain mailings (if not mandatory) and set the timesettings myself.
Relying on the header information might lead to wrong results as some people changed settings and it relies on the browser. (Though i guess thats not valid for many users)
But while you're there, one can also set time to receive emails themself. Maybe i want to have it earlier because half of my tasks already need to be done by 7am.
Of course, the best is to combine both, having a settings page with default value gathered from the browser.
Nice article which really covers the problem many people aren't thinking about.
I know this to well. This and how i always check for the Mailnotification in my Dock if there is any little background sound in the musictrack i'm listening to.
But it's not about addiction i suppose. It's a natural behaviour of our brain to save energy by recognizing patterns instead of recomputing. So yes, the tech break will help, but no, i am not addicted to my phone.
Motions like using a mouse or a keyboard are not a single bit more intuitive for flying planes or shootings guns. It just an issue of familiarisation with the interface as it was with the mouse, as it was the keyboard.
Beside that, it really doesn't matter as these were only two examples of a large variety of possible applications. If it doesn't fit the need - don't use it. There are other interfaces. There is no need for one interface to rule them all but for interfaces that really hits the spot for particular applications.
Regarding Leap: Looks really promising. Though i would prefere if it would be "hidden". Anyhow, can't wait to get my on it. Or over it.
that's awesome.
in this application it would be hard though to sense the position of these gestures i.e. where in the liquid you touched. but combined with other sensing technologie (like optical or traditional capacitive) that would be a HIT.
In fact FB declines Post and Messages for a while already.
For example you can't post or comment and include a picture from imgur, while it (obviously) fine from other hosts.
Thats what i experienced so far, but i can imagine there are other examples.
That does not need to be censorship.
Might be that they got an agreement about not hotlinking or hosting imgur images for copyright reasons.
Personally i moved all my storage, contacts and calendars over to a self-hosted owncloud instance, which i did not regret so far. But i'm not going to write an article about it ...