We love Wikipedia. The idea of a constantly updated knowledge base where everyone is welcome to read and contribute is staggering, and we dip into this great pool of content on an almost daily basis at 1910. However, having spent the last three years learning more about typography has made us aware…

In our on-going pursuit of trying to improve readability and usability of digital products and services, one thing that’s always struck us as odd is the way typography of email applications has been left untouched since the early days of the internet. Even modern applications released in the post-pc…

The dreaded semicolon. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Ever since Kurt Vonnegut slandered semicolons (“They are transvestite hermaphrodites,” he said, “representing absolutely nothing”), aspiring writers have looked upon them with a mixture of confusion and trepidation. But there is a breed of writer…

For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is an unabashed good seems incontrovertible, and one of the most popular examples of why it matters is Netflix. Consumers get a video competitor to their cable provider over said cable provider’s pipes; surely the end of net…

Tech Liberty submission about the Harmful Digital Communications Bill. http://t.co/akqgGadaON

Maroun Najjar 7 min read· Apr 14, 2013 -- Sleep is the Force Multiplier We spend one third of our lives sleeping, it's crucial for muscle recovery, fact retention and preparing the body to operate at full speed the next day, sleep is one of the most important things when it comes to day-to-day…

Count me as a 'Love Actually' hater, but @BenDreyfuss's 3,000-word pro-'Love Actually' manifesto is brilliant: http://t.co/v2kDDjlGCa

As you might have seen about the Internets, Google is making a concerted effort to tie YouTube identities with G+ identities, and this has brought another round of arguments about what the relative harm of this may be—and that in turn always gets into questions of just what identity means on the…

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn't have phone service so I gave it to my son to play with. He took to it immediately, especially having a mobile…

This series of posts is about enabling sustainable businesses on the App Store. In Part 1, I discuss why Paper and other productivity apps may not be doing as well as you might think. Part 2 explores why casual games, in contrast, are a sustainable business, but not a differentiator for platforms (I…

Excellent look at software development in general. How Games Are Made: http://t.co/53N4kBVOas via @Polygon

Ahuroa School Photography Club are exhibiting at Estuary Arts, Orewa. The pics that DIDN'T make it - stunning! http://t.co/WMowqV2SBz

Photo: Courtesy of Virgin Galactic At dawn one morning last November—just as the edge of Earth comprising Florida spun into the field of light bursting from roughly 93 million miles away—she emerged one last time from the monstrous doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building, twelve stories long but…

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner http://t.co/KAHLArYZGx - @daedtech

Nice story on notch, the minecraft creator: http://t.co/3KKgzuimEq

Zoom image will be displayed Steven Johnson 5 min read· Feb 22, 2013 -- Sure, it’s an obvious comparison, one that’s been made many times in the past year or two. But it’s a comparison that’s worth pondering in some detail -- not just for what it tells us about Tesla, the company, but also for what…

The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee http://bit.ly/ZJPMCo

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Rudy Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, he campaigned on a platform of bringing down crime and making the city safe again. It was a comfortable position for a former…

This content is now available in the Pluralsight course "Secure Account Management Fundamentals" Recently I’ve had a couple of opportunities to think again about how a secure password reset function should operate, firstly whilst building this functionality into ASafaWeb and secondly when giving…

Here we go! http://t.co/u9qPTPmo #SHIELD

Before his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook, his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy, to chief executive officer of Apple Inc. would be drama-free. "He goes, ‘I never want you to ask what I would have done,"’ Cook recalls in the Dec. 10 issue of…

You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Also in this issue Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us…

Last summer,Automobile Magazineeditors had the opportunity to interview Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, as the company launched its all-new electric sedan. A well-known industry insider warned us not to fall for Musk's smooth talk. "Don't bring any cash," he said. "Because you'll be offering to give it to…

A day later, all of the stories about the Steven Sinofsky departure seem to be pointing in the same general direction: That he was indeed fired (or asked to leave).That he clashed with Steve Ballmer.That he didn’t work well with others.That Ballmer wanted a more collaborative Microsoft.That Windows…

Pringles Pinholes Ahoy When you have a crazy idea out loud (i.e. on the Internet), it would be pretty easy to pretend it never happened. Twitter has a delete button after all. But the idea of having a group of people making pinhole cameras out of empty Pringles cans, and then wandering around…