June 2008
13 posts
Paper Prototyping →
The best chair
Ergonimic, comfortable and not about to break the bank. What should you be sitting on? Reports so far point to… sit in it and try it.
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Best use of Flash I've ever seen →
Personal IVR
Call my cell, if I don’t pickup
“Thanks for calling, stay on the line to leave a message or press 1 for my office”
Staying on the line prompts for voicemail, pressing 1 rings my office number and consequently my voicemail if I don’t pickup.
Neato
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Forwarding calls - Rogers Wireless
If you’re wanting to forward your calls from your Rogers cell phone to another number or to voicemail dial
*004*XXXXXXXXXX#
Where XXXXXXXXXX is the 10 digit number.
To disable this feature dial
##004#
The 004 code provides busy, no answer and out of reach (all three forwarding for the price of one!). Note: if you have voicemail with Rogers this won’t work (but you wouldn’t...
How to thank your committee
Seth Godin suggests in his blog that instead of boring your audience to tears thanking everyone (commitee, sponsors etc..) you run a powerpoint with pictures of all these people/organizations before you give your talk.
“On top of injecting Word features into its OS for the use of every application,...”
– Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Spaces & Projects Workflow
Unticking the new magical Spaces checkbox in 10.5.3 allows your spaces to be project specific. But what if you want to get back to an App without opening a new window? If you’re opening instances of each application for each project (with a projec specific view) this shouldn’t be an issue and things like iTunes could live in an ‘Entertainment’ Space. Right now you’re...
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Click with Code on OS X →
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Move and Resize Windows with Keyboard in OS X →
An alternative to MondoMouse.
Update: see also donationware alternative
Announce Caller ID on iPhone →
How your Blog (Potentially) Replaced Emailing...
Sending neat links to your friends by email is easy, but what if you could just as easily encourage a dialogue among your friends and never have to dig through email to find that URL? If it were easy to blog a link and notify your friends about it we might do just that. I’m not talking about getting your friends to subscribe to an RSS feed, I’m talking good old fashioned mailto:
I...
Be rich, own nothing
Imagine if you wanted to get up one day and move closer to the beach, wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to pack up your kitchen utensils, organize all your drawers and disassemble your ikea furniture? What if everything you used was leased to you, it was always in good condition, maintained, and swappable for a different model or piece. Does everyone need a kitchen? What if we...