October 2009
6 posts
Developers must ride the subway
From One-handed computing with the iPhone:
Straphangers in NYC and elsewhere know what a great one-handed device the iPhone is. Riding the subway and reading has never been so easy, especially during rush hour when pointy hardcovers become weaponized. (Getting shived by a hardbound Harry Potter on the 6pm 5 train is no joke.)
The NYC Subway is the acid-test of usability. Tests include:
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Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers... →
Whether TWC is responsible, or SMC — the people who make the router — this pretty much covers everything wrong you can do regarding securing a router:
Chen[…]said he was trying to help a friend change the settings on his cable modem and discovered that Time Warner had hidden administrative functions from its customers with Javascript code. By simply disabling Javascript in...
Wolfram|Alpha iPhone App is $50
It’s a lot of computational power, sure, but here’s my gripe:
This $50 iPhone app might just save you money and give you more options (but make sure you can use it in class and that you have an Internet or data connection available to you).
Yes, that computational power still requires a data connection to access, at all.
WatchPhotoSketch is an application that takes a sketch with labels, and creates a composite image from other images on the internet. No kidding.
This is what the kids like to call “exploitable.”
(via gizmodo)
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For Americans, Plastic Buys Less Abroad →
Our banks at work:
These governments like the [chip-and-PIN credit cards] because they reduce fraud. With an embedded microcontroller, large amounts of data can be stored on the card itself rather than in a central database, and counterfeiting such a card is difficult.
But the United States banking industry has no immediate plans to adopt the technology. Part of the reason, experts say,...