And I, for one, welcome our new sub-millimetre precision robot overlords... Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off.
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Creative briefs from a client do not get any better than this... The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief.
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Wow. A software developer with a strong preference for open-source tries and prefers commercial alternatives over open-source for page layout. There are some well reasoned choices made in the article justifying why a commercial font and commercial software was much...
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Check this out: 10/GUI. The video gives a great overview of the concepts of 10/GUI - a new mutitouch GUI idea from R. Clayton Miller. He argues that multitouch displays for desktop computers are definitely not the way forwards, and I...
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Helvetica really does look quite a bit better than Arial, it's a smoother and cleaner design that is more pleasing to the eye. I scored 19/20 - the Mattel logo had me, there's not a lot of difference there, just...
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CSIRO, having invented and patented some of the key technologies for high-speed wi-fi networking, has had their case held up in court and is on the receiving end of $200M worth of outstanding royalty payments. CSIRO earns $200m Wi-Fi windfall.
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There's a new version of the fantastic backup utility - SuperDuper!. SuperDuper is what you should be using if you're not using Time Machine, or if you're the kind of person that double-bags their supermarket groceries. They're claiming 2x-3x speedup with...
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Interesting opinion piece by British Sci Fi Author, Charlie Stross concerning the downhill slide in scriptwriting for big-budget sci-fi TV series. To resolve a difficult plot line, simply insert technology. Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek.
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