Apple working on no-contact charging, syncing?
from the headline (my bolding):

Apple Inc. is attempting to develop a revolutionary dock connector for handheld consumer electronics gadgets that will allow the devices to be docked in any orientation and, in some cases, charged wirelessly.

It’s very important to use the right words when talking. Wireless charging and syncing are not revolutionary. There have been wireless chargers for batteries, electric tooth brushes, etc that charge wirelessly through induction.
Wireless syncing has also been done in the past. Remember your old Palm V? Remember the infrared sensor for syncing? Ok.
With that said, I have no doubt that if Apple is working on wireless syncing and charging, they are working hard as hell to remove any kinks and problems in the processes. They weren’t the first company to make digital music players, but they revolutionized the field. They’re not the first company to work with wireless syncing and charging – but they could potentially revolutionize that too.

3GSM: LG Says Apple Nicked iPhone Idea From Them
Becareful with your language you big, fat cry babies. There’s a big different between copying, being influenced by and inspired by something. Of those 3 I don’t Apple did any. The LG phone doesn’t have a on-screen QWERTY keyboard, visual voicemail, web browser or motion-sensitive touch screen (it does have a touch screen).
LG – if by copying you, you mean that you made a Ford Escort and Apple made a BMW 745, then yes, I guess they did copy you and then flush your chocolate turd down the toilet.
Since we’re at it, I think Palm should sue Motorola for the Q, and RIM for the BlackBerry.
Can June pleeeeease come quickly? I’m very much over iPhone hype, speculation and trash-talking (myself included).

My Exposé for WIndows Vista – I’m amused by the fact that after 5 years of development, you still need to install a productivity application to make Vista as easy to use as OS X.
Seems like Microsoft was too busy making their window/application switcher in 3-D:

Adobe Design Center – Odopod. I’ve seen lots of Flash drawing applications before, but this one really gives you the feel of pencils on paper. It just has a great tactile quality for an online piece. I found myself hypnotized both by drawing things myself and then replaying the drawing sessions of other people.
Complete gallery archive.

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
from New York Magazine:

Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry–for God’s sake, their dirty photos!–online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention–and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another.

Web Standards: it’s about quality, not compliance
from Design View:

In spite of the widespread acceptance of Web standards by a specific segment of the design and development community, hosts of professionals – those out there right now creating the Web – are working in direct opposition to these standards. A significant reason for why this is happening and how those not working with Web standards justify their activity boils down, I believe, to something regrettably simple: nomenclature.

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

You could put your link at the bottom, think of the exposure!!! – familiar-sounded, isn’t it?

I love it. This is going on my list of things that motivate me.

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Originally uploaded by combustionchamber.

Glenn Gould : Bach – Keyboard Concerto No.1 D minor BWV 1052

Jobs would offer free music in a ‘heartbeat’ -Amen Steve, if anyone can sell it to the labels it’s you. Please make it happen. 🙂

A great interactive portfolio of Victor Brunetti. (via k10k)

Apple Ad – Microsoft Vista, Cancel or Allow? (via Daring Fireball)

This is a great example of choosing the right technology for the job. IndustryNext, like many companies, wanted to put a map on their contact page, but as cool as Google Maps is, it wasn’t the solution since IndustryNext’s site was built in Flash and Google Maps was built in AJAX.
So what they decided to do was use Yahoo Maps. It’s nearly identical to Google Maps, but in Flash. Like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps has a public API that you can tap into to build your own mashups. The result is a seemlessly integrated map experience.
Also note the use of direct linking within Flash on IndustryNext’s site, mimicking separate pages for each of the sections within the site. People have been doing this for a while, but it’s overlooked a lot:
http://www.industrynext.com/#showcase
http://www.industrynext.com/#capabilities

It’s amazing how often we will silently live with things we know are built or designed wrong. Today I’m speaking about something that might seem trivial to some, but bugs the shit of out me – webmail message navigation.
Can we come to a agreement on what wording we use when navigating through email archives? I try to keep to my one ‘main’ email account for the majority of my email communicating, but occasionally I have to dip into my other ‘alternate’ accounts. Each one of these accounts has a different way of navigating back to older emails and forward to newer emails.
Below are screenshots from the 3 main applications I use – GMail, YahooGroups & SquirrelMail:

GMail

Newer & Older – there’s no sitting, blinking and pondering where these 2 links are taking me. Simple clear English for simple navigating. Thank you Google.

Yahoo Groups

Newer & Older – Awesome, Google must have taken pointers from Yahoo. Too bad these 2 links are only on the Messages List page. 🙁

Next and Prev – What happened to Older and Newer? Now what the f#ck to I pick? Turns out Next takes me to newer messages and Prev takes me to older ones. Too bad they’re in the reverse order as GMail.

SquirrelMail

Previous & Next – Ahhh, only through using SquirrelMail for years to I know that Previous will actually take me to newer messages and Next will take me to older messages.