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Eink and Amazon Kindle

Amazon recently introduced a 'new' device for reading books called Kindle. The idea is that you would carry this new device around and enjoy reading your books, blogs and newspapers on the go...

The great diamond hunt of 2007

This last weekend I was running around Boston searching for a diamond. The 2007 E.B. Horn Diamond hunt sent 200 teams running through the streets of boston on an adventure fit for Dan Brown. E...

World Usability Day 2007

Today is World Usability Day so take a minute and think about how the products and services around you could be more usable and friendly. Think about the frustrations you experience and the fr...

New Raizlabs Project

Emily was born November 2nd 2007 making me a proud father. She will undoubtedly change my perception of the world and everything in it. We tend to view the world through our own eyes and with...

On Wikipedias design (or lack thereof)

The content of the Wikipedia is amazing. What's more amazing is that this content was created despite many obvious flaws in the design of the site.  Here are the main ones I've seen. There ar...

My phone is my digital wallet

I left my wallet at home today but I remembered my phone. That got me thinking. Why can't my phone be my wallet? I have too much crap in my wallet. Credit cards, shopping cards, health cards, ...

What not to do, MsgBox edition

If you decide to use a message box use the appropriate buttons and use the appropriate text. The text in this dialog is strange enough without the extra language backflips that the developer ...

Computational Photography

Computational photography is the idea that you can compose an image in a computer, not within the camera.  Traditionally you take a picture and the image is composed on the film at the back of...

iTip - A Tip Calculator for the iPhone

UPDATE: We have a new and improved tip calculator. Get details and download the best iPhone tip calculator available. Last night I coded up a simple tip-calculator for the iphone using the '...

Usability, Frustration and Delight

On Wednesday Jared Spool spoke at UPABoston about the web today, its history and perhaps its future. One of the more interesting parts was how usability plays into products. In the past the ...