Author Archives: Tim Cederman-Haysom

Picasa as an example of great design

I’ve been a long-time fan of Picasa, and it ultimately comes down to several reasons: It’s fast. Very fast. It has a great UI. Functionality. Integration. Fast Picasa has been optimized to very quickly load, to handle large libraries of … Continue reading

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Tuesdays and Google Reader

I read an interesting article linked from Hacker News to 16th Letter which discussed different productivity on different days. While both myself and Melissa are both late to the party on productivity on Tuesdays, I was interested to see that … Continue reading

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Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Nike Plus

For all the doom and gloom about the lack of real world ubiquitous computing (even I was guilty of it in my thesis), if you look around there are devices that support ubiquitous computing ideals. And I’m not talking about … Continue reading

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Ubiquitous computing done right

I was happily surprised when I saw this video.  I was sent it by Miles, and I think it is an outstanding example of ubiquitous computing.  Amazingly it’s also several years old now, and part of Johnny Lee’s work at … Continue reading

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Australian presence in California

Was jogging past Google when a cricket ball came flying my way.  All while listening to some Alex Lloyd.

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Amusing links

As shared in my reader sidebar, but I thought these were particularly amusing: Pulp Fiction as Shakespeare Polish Postcard Prank ABC runs the Lincoln-Douglas debates …and for the Silicon Valley folks, Valleywag vs Arrington

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The Anti-Portfolio

Found this great link from Hacker News – Bessemer Venture Partners’ anti-portfolio. Everyone likes to highlight their strengths and past successes, but there’s something impressive about being able to admit mistakes, on your corporate site no less.  I can only … Continue reading

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Random Wikipedia Link of the Day – Donkey Kong Jr… MATH

Sometimes I worry about Wikipedia. I really do. After all, they’ll delete the entry on Trovix, but they’ll let something like this survive, nay, flourish. I present for your perusal, this. The game features one player and two player modes. … Continue reading

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Turn your iPhone into a wifi Skype phone

There has been a lot of buzz on the intertubes today about Fring.  They’re an Israeli startup who released a fairly popular mobile chat client.  That’s simplifying things – in addition to supporting every major IM client, Fring automatically logs … Continue reading

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Amusing links

1001 uses for Jello in 1973. Does the Gold Kit really work? Photoshop disasters blog. Detroit vs Mountain View.

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