Posted in Apple, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, Keyboarding, Macintosh, Texting, Tools on Apr 24th, 2012 7 Comments »
Shawn Blanc has done some research on keyboards for the Macintosh and written an exhaustive piece on using them as a professional writer: Clicky Keyboards. It’s not clear from the piece if Shawn is a touch typist but my guess is he is. In 1985 I witnessed my friend Steve Splonskowski (still in college) typing [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Social Software, Texting on Feb 16th, 2012 4 Comments »
Apple has finally started to unify their instant messaging universe. Many of us have been using iChatAV for years and have come to depend on it. Not everyone signed up and had an AIM account in the early days (AOL was and remains disdained by the power user types) although in time Apple allowed the [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places, Texting on Jul 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Joe Holmes has an excellent set up on flickr: Texters. He’s got a great eye for people and catching them at just the right moment of concentration. The images are excellent, as good as images can get. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in iPhone, Network, Texting on Feb 8th, 2011 6 Comments »
I read on MacRumors that AT&T was giving out free 3G MicroCell base stations to customers who threatened to switch to Verizon: Verizon iPhone Ad Targets AT&T Reception, AT&T Giving Out Free Microcells to Some Customers. I’m not sure a Verizon iPhone would get any better reception at our house, we live in a hilly [...]
Posted in Social Software, Texting on Nov 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Chatroulette Gives Rise to a Genre …there was something enduring about Chatroulette’s mash-up of serendipity and human connections. Now a number of entrepreneurs and Web tinkerers are hoping to spin that concept into business opportunities — while keeping the creep factor to a minimum.
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, iPhone, Opinion, Social Software, Texting, Video on Nov 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction Matt Richtel at The New York Times documents student use of technology at Woodside High School in silicon valley (Redwood City, California). On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.” What can we say, [...]
Posted in iPhone, Social Software, Texting on Oct 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Japanese Teenagers Teach Us Something About Being In Two Places At Once Consider a fascinating study of the text messaging behavior of Tokyo teenagers that was conducted as part of a much larger investigation of “digital youth” by Mimi Ito, the late Peter Lyman and their colleagues. The kids text back and forth all day. [...]
Posted in Audio, iPhone, NPR, Texting on Oct 20th, 2010 1 Comment »
Group Texting Grows Up, With Features That Appeal to Adults I have to say, my wife, who hates talking on the phone has been texting non-stop since getting my old iPhone. She even pulled me into it and I’ve been chatting for years. It is useful and no doubt less intrusive than a phone call [...]
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