Right on. The BBC article should link to this. Better that Google nabs unsecured data without intent that someone else with intent. Too much hype.
What's worse than nabbing private packets is Google sticking a camera on a 10 foot pole and drive down residential back lanes where the camera can see over fences into private backyards and in some cases into living rooms. This happened in my town, to my house, and I felt my privacy was invaded. Google street view can see a lot more than someone walking along the street because nobody but Google is 10 feet tall.
Good of you to say, and it's good to hear things are going swimmingly since you removed it.
The whole idea of accountability is in my opinion flawed when it comes to casual contributions from internet participants. The word "accountability" is heavy-handed, and has a presumptuous tone of expectation of wrong-doing, an ever-looming threat of penalty if one steps out of line.
"Say the wrong thing, and YOU YES YOU will be held ACCOUNTABLE."
Real name enforcement is an ALL CAPS effort to force "accountable" behavior at the expense of privacy or just comfortable contributions from users. When our words end up set in stone online, and when many of us are not professional writers, signing one's real identity to a casual opinion may be a hazardous activity.
This is the internet. We don't need to be so uptight. On the whole, communities behave respectfully when the community is respected and valued, regardless of public display of real names.
Yep I like that thinking - no walls and distances on the internet. To take your example a step further, a google search and our boss sees what dance club we attended, sees photos of our last messy night there, and see our comments on pillreports (in a hypothetical case of having a bit too much fun one full moon, and posting about it before the sun comes up). There's a time and place for real names, and it's not most of the time online.
Hang on a second, what if the interviewee doesn't have a Facebook account? Or just lies and says they don't have one? Would the next question be "why not" or "show us your email in-box"?
Don't tell me that not having a Facebook account now weighs against your eligibility in an interview? That would be sad. What next? Everyone must have a FB account by law?
And why didn't Braithwaite just not ask the candidates the FB question?
"Fired for refusing to invade interviewee privacy"
is better than
"resigns after invading interviewee privacy".
Edit... so apparently it's all fiction. Time wasted.
@zdw, I hope you're not suggesting that native iOS apps have better accessibility than Flash? That's not the case. Flash is way out in front of native apps for accessibility.
Good closed caption support via external file or cue points, strong keyboard control, mouse pointer/cursor appearance manipulation, versatile multi-channel audio.
Apple did no favors by excluding Flash from Safari. When a website contains Flash, it's in everyone's interest, including blind users, that the Flash object is loaded successfully if the user wishes it so. That should be obvious.
Check the Adobe site for "Flash accessibility design guidelines".
Screen reader technology is evolving too remember. Of course there would need to be capabilities added to iOS Safari, such as screen reader plugin. But that the Flash accessibility problem has been addressed on desktop now, but no one seems to have noticed!
"When a screen reader encounters content created with Flash, it loads the current state of the movie and notifies the user. With the Window-Eyes screen reader, the user hears, "Loading…load done." Once a piece of content has been read, the screen reader moves on to read other parts of the content and the rest of the page."
"Adobe worked with GW Micro to create a Halt Flash Events keystroke (Alt+Shift+M) for the Window-Eyes screen reader. This keystroke allows a screen reader user to suspend Flash notifications on the page. Pressing the keystroke again allows the user to resume Flash notifications..."
I tend to agree. It can depend though on circumstances and personality types. I think we can adjust feedback methods depending on who is involved, how well we know each other, and so on.
That said, some people try too hard "not to be a dick", and while nice and polite, they end up supplying watered down, fence-sitting, egg-shell treading fluff instead of useful down-to-earth efficient feedback.
Some designers get emotional. That's good - but they need to learn to channel that emotion into reasoning and solid foundation arguments to support why they did what they did. If they can't do that, they need to work with people who can assist them in doing that.
A colleague once used "intuition" as her rationale for a design/IA decision that was going to negatively impact on technical work I had to do. My criticism was harsh in reply, and I'm sure she thought I was "a dick". Well, that's just tough. Build a bridge and let's move on to the next task. All intuitive decisions can be unscrambled or decoded to find their basis. Especially true in design environments where you're working within defined limitations, scope and objectives. If you can't find a basis, then unload the criticism, keep our humor, and let's solve the problem rather than mess around.
Mobile web apps should work in more places than safari on the iPhone. Otherwise call it a "mobile safari app".
I tried the app in mobile Firefox, no luck. I tried it mobile Opera, no go. Also, I don't understand why anyone would use Apple's native interface graphics on purpose for a web app. I get why native dev it makes things easier to build than custom icons etc, but on the web, you are not on Apple's leash no more, be free!
Nobody gets 200 emails per day all directly asking for something. If you do, as already said, that's a process and staffing issue, not email's fault.
The good thing about the old subject line of an email is that you usually can tell whether it's something you need to look at now or save for later, move to another folder, or delete. You can also quickly see whether you are the main target or just CC'd.
Speed reading can also assist in processing email. Sometimes you just know whether you need to read something thoroughly, or can glance over.
I like it how it is because filters and sensible organising of inboxes is not hard.
Not interested in email streams at all. I'd prefer to keep streams for the kind of information that doesn't require action or response frequently per item. Emails often require action or attention, and it's far better they exist as subject line items in a date-ordered list for easy retrieval, sorting and archiving all at once.
Review: 3 stars
Good UX path on loading the app, guides you through steps. The designer of this app has done well to make a sensible interface, with only some work needed on the settings screen and the labeling choices there.
Replay value is another question. There's no sequencing layout tools or anything relating to more than the single image you're working on. Tools are not that powerful, but they do their job ok. It does one trick, and most people will probably use it one time.
Yep, the vector thing is pretty cool.
Now it just needs the ability to arrange and re-arrange multiple images, and swipe through them as a slideshow. Throw in a library of sound effects to assign each slide, with animated visual effects for little movie-making mobile graphic novels... and THEN it'd be a paid app worthy of promotion in my mind, but this is a good start.
Agreed. But you're being too kind on Apple. This is the worst privacy breach from Apple in iPhone's history.
No point blaming app programmers. The functionality for apps to acquire the address book without asking shouldn't exist.
Dear Apple, thank you for protecting me from adult material in the app store. But, can you... er, this is awkward... can you NOT GIVE MY ADDRESS BOOK AWAY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION? Thanks. And sorry for yelling, it's just, y'know, my address book and all.
Analogy isn't needed at all. Address book uploaded without permission... enough said. To your second point, I agree, Apple should have a setting on the iPhone that denies ANYONE but the owner of the iPhone access to the address book. In addition, each app should be forced to ask for permission to use contacts. The ball is in Apple's court to explain.
Are we sure the rewind list isn't decided by one staff member at Apple, who ticks a few boxes one morning at their cubicle?
Somehow I knew the app wasn't going to be free after reading the article: "I just have no idea, except maybe that's it a really quality app [that you too can feature on you homescreen for just 99 cents]".
Front end Developers seem to disagree a lot. Some embrace the webkit prefix and sprinkle it all through their CSS. Others prefer not to resort to old fashioned site building techniques and instead aim to get the functionality working everywhere in one hit without coding like it's 1996.
LOL, gold! I would buy that one too. As for the actual posters for sale, if people actually do want these on their walls, just type it in notepad and hit print. I'd sooner opt for a cheesy new age motivational slogan than Zuck-wisdom, but then I'm not a Facebook loyal.
Someone should mention: this "cloud" is not actually a cloud, but relies on physical things to exist. At both ends, loads of electric current is needed. It relies on mining to bring the infrastructure, and it replaces your own information management with facilities managed by people you'll never meet and companies you'll barely know. But you have to trust them and agree to their terms, and become their customer.
Living in the cloud could be the most you've ever sold out without knowing it.
My advice: keep a few books. Bookshelves can be left in standby mode for years without needing a recharge. When people come over you can hand them a book, maybe an art book, and they will enjoy flicking through the pages. The UX of a book is top notch. Leave and rotate a few on the coffee table (if you have a coffee table, or is that in the cloud too?).
"In reality, everything we are excited about today is going to be incredibly old and boring much faster than we ever expect".
Um.... speak for yourself.
I still appreciate and wow at the simplicity and brilliance of the humble transistor radio. It all depends how much you can appreciate the science and manufacturing details of these devices, their development history, design, performance, evolution, applications and use. Get into the details, and NOTHING gets boring.
This comment is longer than the article it responds to. A good new years resolution for the interwebs might be to Keep It Short, Stupid! The definition of "comment" also needs revisiting.
Looks like unsharp mask filter is automatically applied to 4s.. which is fine for happy snaps, but if DSLR cameras applied such sharpening automatically without the option to turn it off, just watch photographers around the world take to the streets in protest! So many images on the web are so over-sharpened by people who don't know how to sharpen properly or just use the default settings.
As a kid growing up, the Commodore 64 was more than a tinker-box that blinked a few lights. And later, the Amiga won hands down over the Mac that we had in the house. I was definitely no hacker. I was an average kid wanting to get enjoyment out of a computer.
For me, the Commodore stepped up to offer what you describe as "consumer-ready". We bought and swapped heaps of software for C64 and Amiga over many years, as did millions around the world. We would play Summer Games as a family... mum, dad, sis.. we'd have a ball.
Even at high school, the BBC was king in my day.
When I got to Uni, I saw all these Macs everywhere, and apart from the crisper display suitable for word processing, they did not offer anything I would have called a step up my previous experience with computers.
It was around then, that I discovered the 486 PC. I saved up and bought one. Never looked back.
Just trying to balance the perspective here. Let's not get too carried away with the history of computers and what the Apple co-founder did for his company, ok?
What's worse than nabbing private packets is Google sticking a camera on a 10 foot pole and drive down residential back lanes where the camera can see over fences into private backyards and in some cases into living rooms. This happened in my town, to my house, and I felt my privacy was invaded. Google street view can see a lot more than someone walking along the street because nobody but Google is 10 feet tall.