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Yearly Archives: 2007
Home Printers. Why are they usually rubbish?
Think back to your first ever home inkjet printer. Mine was an Apple stylewriter in 1993. Look at home printers today. They still look pretty much the same – they haven’t moved on much. Why not? We’ve been having the … Continue reading
Arrogant hardware design – Claim back your surfaces!
We’ve all had hardware like this in our home: designed to be an ornament yet attractive to nobody, and a waster of good surface space. You can imagine how the designers pictured it – the user placing the device on … Continue reading
Roll on unmetered mobile web access
Woah there! You’ve found yourself on an old article. Take note of the date before reading. Do you remember when you stopped paying per minute for your dial-up modem connection? Suddenly using the web became a real part of your … Continue reading
Google ditch the name “Froogle” in favour of “Products”
A while back I blogged about how Google was missing a trick with the name “froogle”. In short, its an in-joke that a lot of people just didn’t get (a pun combining “Google” with “frugal”), and didn’t even realise that … Continue reading
Virgin Media show how to create a word-of-mouth campaign *against* your brand.
Word of mouth happens when customers become really passionate about your product or brand. The thing about passion is that is has two ends: very happy, and very angry. Here’s the story of my last two points of contact with … Continue reading
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor: the relentless salesman
I ran the Vista Upgrade Advisor on my aging laptop the other day and after scanning my machine for a few minutes it gave me this wonderful feedback screen: [Blue speech bubbles added for emphasis] Great stuff. Even though it … Continue reading
Heresy! Underwhelmed by Basecamp
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Web 2.0 darlings 37signals. I used to read their ‘design not found‘ articles fairly avidly and even bought their excellent book ‘Defensive Design for the Web‘. Their sense of aesthetics is … Continue reading
How much is this phone?
. Another great deal from Three.
Mystery Meat in Vista Media Center
After all the beta testing – how did this one slip through the net? When you browse videos in Vista Media Center it only shows you thumbnails with no text label whatsoever. (you do get a filename displayed when you … Continue reading