Dan Markham

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Posts Tagged ‘computing’

11.28

The Death … and Life of the Keyboard Jockey

Rest assured, hard-core computer fans, we’re not going to suggest that you abandon your dual-core screamer and take up knitting. This is an online tech journal, after all.

Were we meant to sit at a computer for hours on end with slouching backs and blood-shot eyes? No, probably not. Maybe sometime in the future humans will have adapted to such a lifestyle — and that is an ugly thought — but until then, it’s either take care of yourself or suffer the consequences. Information Week, way back in 2006, offered up ten ways they thought the keyboard jockey lifestyle could hurt you and added, at least, a corresponding number of ways to keep the hurt from happening. This is timeless advice.

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6.25

Our Handheld Future

Two articles from WIRED — one on the acquisition and open-sourcing of Symbian, the other on the (continuing) story of Google’s Android — centered on the inevitable “mobilization” of the computing experience.

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5.9

9 Years

Think about that — in just nine years, the specs that then described Apple’s top-of-the-line desktop computer now describe their phone.

–– John Gruber of Daring Fireball “BlackBerry vs. iPhone”

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