Daily Archives: October 7, 2011

Zurb’s Axe: A Tablet-Friendly Way To Mark Up (And Scribble On) Your Web Design

October 7, 2011
Zurb’s Axe: A Tablet-Friendly Way To Mark Up (And Scribble On) Your Web Design

Interaction design firm Zurb has just launched a new tool that makes it easy to use your iPad to mark up and add comments about a website’s design. It’s called Axe (the domain is axeapp.com), and no, it has nothing to do with men’s body spray. Note that you can’t use it from your computer, so...

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Turning The iPhone Into A 350x Medical Microscope For Under $50

October 7, 2011
Turning The iPhone Into A 350x Medical Microscope For Under $50

Using the iPhone (or any mobile smartphone or tablet device, really) for medical purposes isn’t a new thing, but it’s nice to see the applications people cook up. Just recently at Disrupt we saw Smartheart, and apps like Skin Scan are decentralizing some simple self-monitoring tasks like melanoma detection. We’ve also seen lots of...

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Is more real-time information a dream or a nightmare?

October 7, 2011
Is more real-time information a dream or a nightmare?

Thanks to smartphones and wireless networking and SMS and Twitter, we are all swimming in an ocean of real-time information — an ocean that can often seem overwhelming. Are new technologies going to help, or are they going to increase the problem? A presentation at the recent Society for News Design conference included a...

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There’s A Run On The Steve Jobs Turtleneck

October 7, 2011
There’s A Run On The Steve Jobs Turtleneck

Image: St. Croix See Also: HINT: 57 Across Is “Steve Jobs” MARC ANDREESSEN: Steve Jobs Used To Walk Around Palo Alto All The Time. Once I Almost Hit Him With My Car The New Yorker’s Steve Jobs Cover Goes With ‘The iPad At The Pearly Gates’ Minnesota company St. Croix, which makes the mock...

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Amazon Adds SQS Queue Administration to AWS Console

October 7, 2011
Amazon Adds SQS Queue Administration to AWS Console

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. The XML-based language that the Web uses for sending...

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Why Turntable Has The Coolest Product This Year

October 7, 2011
Why Turntable Has The Coolest Product This Year

See Also: The Silicon Alley 100: The People That Did The Coolest Stuff In New York Tech This Year 2011 Silicon Alley 100: A-Z Order SHOCKER: Kristin Cavallari Out On Dancing With The Stars (VIDEO) Turntable.fm was presented with The Coolest Product Award at the launch of the SA 100 list of the most...

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What You Missed at Monktoberfest

October 7, 2011
What You Missed at Monktoberfest

Attention Conference Planners I didn’t do a formal survey, but I asked a lot of the Monktoberfest attendees what they thought of the event. Not a single person complained about the event. So what did the Redmonk folks get right? Two things above all else – catering and content. Obviously, beer was a big...

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Why the iPhone’s screen is 3.5″ and will most likely never be bigger than 4″

October 7, 2011
Why the iPhone’s screen is 3.5″ and will most likely never be bigger than 4″

Apple’s design is deliberate and iterative. This is counter to the feeling that many have about the designs of the iPhone, iPad and Mac because they feel so organic and inspired. The designs of these products stand out as different and unique, making it seem likely that they were the creation of a flash of genius...

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CHART OF THE DAY: How Much Revenue Can Twitter Eventually Generate?

October 7, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: How Much Revenue Can Twitter Eventually Generate?

If you compare Twitter to other display ad based businesses, it appears the company will not be generating gobs of revenue in the future. Pascal Emmanuel Gobry at our own Business Insider Research took a look at the amount of revenue that comes from a unique visitor to display ad based business to get...

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Microsoft merges Zune and Xbox account preferences

October 7, 2011
Microsoft merges Zune and Xbox account preferences

We’ve been discussing the end of Zune for so long now that if Microsoft simply killed the service it would actually be a relief. Well, not quite. Still, we have heard that Zune will be folded into Xbox, or Windows Live, depending on who you talk to. No one is completely sure. However, news today indicates...

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