Now to be fair, many cell phone makers fail when they are too ambitious, adding cutting-edge features way before their time or taking a design risk. Without these noble failures, perhaps no iPhone would ever have been possible.The phones in our dirty dozen list all suffer from either design flaws or functionality failures, or both.
A portfolio is a showcase of work, the portfolio site itself can also create a blank canvas to allow a designer to do whatever they want with it, and here is over 40 examples of beautifully put together portfolios!
It doesn’t matter whether you are a designer, a developer, an artist or an amateur learner – at some point you need to improve the quality of the original picture or video. You may want to retouch and enhance his or her photographs and videos, make it look better, more spectacular and more original. It could be for personal or commercial use.
Wolfram Alpha, the analytics-based “answering engine” built by Stephen Wolfram on his Mathematica software, is drawing immense hype even before its launch later this month.An invention that could change the Internet forever. Too much? Yes, I think so.
The smartphone sales race may be closer than expected.Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Curve overtook Apple’s iPhone to become the top-selling consumer smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of 2009, according to research published by NPD Group on Monday.
The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing a new policy that sets boundaries for appropriate
Sapphire crystals may be the next material to transform the electronics industry, thanks to nanotechnology researchers who have announced a new way of storing data that would fit the contents of 250 DVDs on a coin-sized surface.
Plain old Web searching doesn’t do the trick anymore: It yields too much random data, or not what you need. Here’s how to get what you want when you want it—sometimes before you ask for it. Nobody “surfs” the Web anymore. Some 80 percent of all online sessions now begin with a search. Google proves the point by making over a billion dollars….
The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online and blocks millions of web sites including Facebook and Youtube until recently. Now a small software allows Iranians to surf the the uncensored Web. Despite the dangers the Iranians are eagerly grabbing this offering.
bobby f. writes “Infoworld has published its list of the biggest cults in tech — including Palmists, Newtonians, Commodorians, the Brotherhood of the Ruby, IBM power systems fanboys, Ubuntu-ists, and Lispers. A pretty fun read (unless you really are a cult member).” Although I think it’s pretty clear that the Apple camp isn’t an opinionated cult, they’re just always right. Fire away.
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