Posts tagged ‘internet’
Khan!
December 6th, 2012 at 8:36 pm by Dr. Drang
I’d like to like Khan Academy. I like its goals. I like how its website works (not surprising, given that John Resig works there). And I like how it makes its videos available in different ways: streaming on its site, streaming on YouTube, and downloadable for playback anytime. But every time I’ve watched a Khan…
DuckDuckGone
April 27th, 2012 at 9:45 pm by Dr. Drang
In an attempt to be like all the cool people, I started using DuckDuckGo as my search engine a few months ago. And, as you can tell from the title, I’ve stopped using it and gone back to Google. The rush to DuckDuckGo was largely driven by Google’s announcement that it was going to pool…
Nonresponsive design
April 20th, 2012 at 11:52 pm by Dr. Drang
Eventually, I’m going to be a hot, cutting edge web designer. Not because of anything I do, but because, sooner or later, the fads in web design will swing around to the way I’ve built this site. Remember several years ago when The Mobile Web started to take off? The hot thing then was to…
Hotel wifi help
December 29th, 2011 at 6:57 pm by Dr. Drang
Let me start by apologizing for the title of this post. If you were searching for help with balky hotel wifi and wound up here through some horrible SEO failure, I can assure you you won’t find anything useful in what follows. It’s more a post about the lack of hotel wifi help. Last night…
Best product review
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 am by Dr. Drang
Much talk on Mac blogs this week about product reviews, strong opinions, and the journalists/blogger/fanboy division. I was reminded of that when this popped up in my Twitter stream just a few minutes ago. It is, I believe, the best product review I’ve ever seen. Have acquired and used @LeapCard. Worked smoothly, totally hassle-free so…
Craft
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:35 pm by Dr. Drang
Generally speaking, I’m in favor of celebrating the spirit of amateurism; that we should make and do things for ourselves rather than always relying professionals and retailers. Even if our results aren’t perfect, the skills we develop in doing for ourselves are important in making us well-rounded humans. I’m no fan of Robert Heinlein’s politics,…
Savior of the Universe
November 9th, 2011 at 9:13 pm by Dr. Drang
Following a link from Michael Tsai (who’s been my go-to blogger recently on the OS X sandboxing controversy), I read this post by Jeff LaMarche on Adobe’s announcement of the end of mobile Flash. The key passage is this: I missed a huge factor in the demise of Flash. I assumed the performance issues they…
Google Maps printing oddity
June 3rd, 2011 at 10:29 pm by Dr. Drang
While the Google Maps scroll/zoom confusion I blogged about last week has been around for years, the printing problem I ran into today seems new. It’s a case of Google doing things right initially and then screwing it up later. I have a packed schedule on Monday. A meeting in Joliet in the morning and…
Pinboard problems
February 4th, 2011 at 8:34 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve been collecting small complaints about Pinboard since I switched over from Delicious back in December. Some I’ve already reported to Pinboard, some I haven’t. I figured I’d throw them all into one crotchety post and send a link to Pinboard support. All my complaints are related to Pinboard’s Twitter features. For me, one of…
Writing well is hard
February 1st, 2011 at 8:14 am by Dr. Drang
You may have seen this article by Jeff Yang at SFGate. He makes the case that Apple’s success since Jobs’ return is due as much to what it doesn’t do as to what it does. It’s been linked on several Apple-centric sites and rightly so: it’s well argued, well sourced, and—with one exception—well written. The…
