Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

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Entries from February 2008

links for 2008-02-27

February 27th, 2008 · No comments yet

clash flowchart
Song lyrics meet flowcharts, Via Livlab: http://twitter.com/livlab
(tags: flow diagram infographics fun music)

Touchpad for iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a wireless mouse for your computer. Via Gizmodo
(tags: Apple howto wireless hardware mouse hack iphone)

Macworld | Master your image library
Explore hidden powers in iPhoto ’08
(tags: Apple photography iphoto tips)

Ironic Sans: Keming
Via Core77
(tags: fonts funny design typography)

Super Screenshot!
Enter [...]

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links for 2008-02-26

February 26th, 2008 · No comments yet

Twitter / tencommandments
Via Alex Rainert: http://twitter.com/arainert
(tags: twitter etiquette)

Least helpful apartment listing photo of all time
Via Curbed
(tags: craigslist funny)

The LinkedIn Blog: Announcing LinkedIn Mobile
(tags: socialnetworking linkedin mobile wap)

How To Manage Your Online Reputation - ReadWriteWeb
How Trackur matches up against Google Alerts, Technorati, Monitor This, Naymz, Rapleaf, etc.
(tags: tools identity reputation track)

Botanicalls Twitter DIY
We are officially in [...]

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links for 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 · No comments yet

MAKE: Blog: Macbook air - yes, it can be laser etched
Mine cost way too much to irreversibly decorate, but perhaps you’d like to put a monkey on your Air.
(tags: macbook_air personalization fun)

Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S.
Is Facebook app spam driving users away? I certainly don’t use it as much
(tags: facebook statistics traffic [...]

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links for 2008-02-24

February 24th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed
Facebook plans to allow users to add activities from FriendFeed directly into their Facebook news feed.
(tags: community facebook friendfeed lifestream socialnetworking)

Commuter Feed
Commuter Feed is a Twitter mashup that aggregates traffic reports. Users tweet traffic updates to a Twitter robot along with an airport code and then parses those [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 3 vs. Firefox 2.0

February 23rd, 2008 · 7 comments so far

On February 12, Mozilla made Firefox 3 Beta 3 available for download. They call this a developer release for testing purposes only, but with all the cool features I’ve been hearing about I just couldn’t resist.
For those of you who aren’t as willing to ignore small bugs and usability flaws — I work on software [...]

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