When I picked up my Forerunner 301 a few years ago, Garmin’s support for the Mac left much to be desired. MotionBased was clunky, the connection required some finagling, and on it went. When I really picked up running last year I tried out a few different tools for syncing my training progress to my [...]
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Garmin Connect is Excellent
Posted in Commentary, Training, tagged garmin, gps, Training on August 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Windows 7 Upgrade Matrix
Posted in Commentary, tagged microsoft windows7 on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a general rule, if you need a 6×11 grid to communicate the upgrade path for your product… it might be excessively complicated. As usual, Microsoft wants to cover off every single possibility, rather than focusing on the core. After ending up with 7 ways to press the ‘off’ button in Vista I thought they [...]
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A Big Difference
Posted in Commentary, tagged Apple, iphone on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clearly there’s a big difference between simply checking a box to meet a specification (i.e., phone with a 3megapixel camera), and making the complete user experience drop dead seamless and fun. iPhone is now the most popular camera on Flickr… Flickr for god sakes. And it absoultely blows away other camera phones that have been [...]
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