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Calculator Surprise

Change in Orientation- Change in Function by cogdogblog posted 2 Jan ’09, 9.51am MST PST on flickr By sheer accident, I found when using the Calcuator app on my iPhone, it becomes a scientific calculator (more functions, more precision) when you rotate the phone. This is elegantly beautiful. Some days I feel arithmetic and other […]

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Questions and Answers for Anything

cc licensed flickr photo by Marcus Ramberg I’ve been seeing a number of my search results this year landing on sites like WikiAnswers and Yahoo Answers — these are useful setups using a wiki based model where anyone can post a question, and then any site visitor can answer. It’s a great approach. I mean, […]

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Tis the Season of Predictions

cc licensed flickr photo by SiRi About the most reliable prediction one can make this end time of year is the flood of people posting their own predictions for 2009, lots of them in the technology space (e.g. ReadWriteWeb, EDITing in the Dark, and Stephen Downes takes out the 10 year scope in an amazing […]