Robin Zhu, who is now the Founder and the Creative Director of RIGO Design, used to be the Visual UX Lead for Microsoft between 2004 and 2008. He plans to launch a personal site on September 9, 2009 (09.09.09) to showcase his portfolio, but Chinese site hxxland managed to get a sneak peak. Remember the…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 11
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how…
The largest gallery of live Nokia 5530 images I’ve ever seen
The Nokia 5530, we’ve written about it plenty [1, 2], quick recap: Think Nokia 5800, but 2.9 inch screen, no 3G and no GPS. There are a few fans out there, this photo gallery over at Mobile01 is for you.
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 10
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1 I explained what RSS is and how…
Steal a phone in Somalia, get your right hand and left foot chopped off
Stealing someone’s mobile phone makes you a dick. Stealing someone’s mobile phone in Somalia is an easy way to lose a few pounds, easy because you’ll be living the rest of your life without your right hand and left foot. At an al-Shabab camp, just north of Mogadishu, four men (pictured right) who have been…
Apple increasing their share in Imagination Technologies to 9.5%
Have a BlackBerry? Review Opera Mini and win a trip to Opera HQ in Norway!
Oslo is a beautiful city, I recently went there when I was interviewing with Opera for a position on the Opera Mini team. No I didn’t get the position, but it doesn’t stop me from recommending what is probably the second most important piece of software for this decade, the first being Google Maps. Opera…
Android finally gets native development tools with NDK 1.5
Google Android developers, up until yesterday, had only one way to write applications: Dalvik, which is, and isn’t due to various IPR issues, a Java Virtual Machine. Hardcore developers wanted more access, what they call “to the metal” programming; things you do in C and C++. Their wishes have been granted with Android NDK 1.5…
No Trimming in Public today, due to the death of an icon, and failure to check the bus schedule
One thing lead to another, and today I ended up staying out until 4 in the morning. I regret not publishing a Trimming in Public episode today. I have a valid excuse however: I missed my bus home and ended up waiting for the next one at 2 in the morning, and when it didn’t…
Samsung’s Pixon 12 aka M8910 goes on sale in August for €639
A little over 3 weeks ago, Samsung announced their first 12 megapixel camera, the Pixon 12. Dusan blogged all about it, but a quick recap: it has a dumb phone OS built by Samsung, both a Xenon and LED flash, 28 mm wide angle lens, does 30 fps video at 720 x 480 pixels, WiFi,…