March 11, 2009
Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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Vinny Carpenter
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March 09, 2009
From the size of it I know most people will go, “Tch, tch that’s a really small dishwasher!� But sweets this one’s for the double-income-no-children types and singles. That’s how specific designing is getting these days, and me being from the old school of thought of big happy families is ...
Yanko Design
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Radhika Seth
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March 05, 2009
Image by PhoneBoy via Flickr I recently went through the trouble of installing a Nokia IP260 as a firewall at home. It was one of the only machines I felt I could keep running in my office for any length of time and not cringe at the fan noise being thrown off. Clearly, our security appliances are n...
The PhoneBoy Blog
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phoneboy
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March 02, 2009
On the heels of the Oscars, we're proud to have been named the best intranet search solution of the year by Intranet Journal. It's been a year filled with hard work, as we've seen the release of brand new search appliance software, as well as nearly ten new innovations in our Enterprise Labs. As tho...
Google Enterprise Blog
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Ellen Petry Leanse
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February 24, 2009
Our own Matt Asay can’t talk about this (he’s an executive with one of the players) but Ingres and Alfresco think they can build a real competitor to SharePoint. (The original image lives at Wikimedia.) Matt has been writing about SharePoint “lock-in” for years. Partnering ...
Open Source
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Dana Blankenhorn
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February 22, 2009
Well, it’s not really the whole weekend that sucked, mostly just Sunday. And it’s not even this weekend that sucked; it was the weekend before my birthday. I ended a recent post promising to expound on the suckery of Schaumburg and almost blowing up my house. Here it goes. Saturday (Janu...
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Mark
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February 20, 2009
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and outdoor cooking company Jetboil have jointly announced a 'voluntary' recall of two of the latter's top-selling stoves due to a potential fire hazard. According to the statement, a tight valve attached to the stove's fuel canister (be it the company's o...
Wired: Gadget Lab
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Jose Fermoso
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February 13, 2009
The Hand Powered Portable Washing Machine purports to be a fast, easy and green alternative to the bulky, water and electricity sucking behemoths we normally use. The plastic tub comes pre-assembled and requires just dirty laundry, soap and water. Seal it up and spin the handle (one revolution per s...
Wired: Gadget Lab
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Charlie Sorrel
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February 11, 2009
For ages the form factor of an iron hasn’t undergone much transformation. They only arena where you get something funky is in concepts. Here is my chance to once again slip into fantasyland and imagine that I’m using a hip-cat appliance while doing my mundane chores. Besides looking different th...
Yanko Design
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Radhika Seth
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February 10, 2009
One year before I dropped onto this earth, Sanyo was demonstrating this astonishing human washing machine at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, in 1970 AD. The Ultrasonic Bath is a giant, six foot high contraption into which the victim must climb (yes, using a ladder). Once settled into place, the luck...
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Charlie Sorrel
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