Episode 56: Live tweeting a war

Posted: December 8th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

We discuss the merits of live-tweeting a war.

Who exactly is the IDF’s target audience with their tweets? Unlike pre-Internet, pre-social media propaganda efforts, everyone in the world can read what you’re tweeting.

We then discuss how Fair Use is a defense, not a right. And because oft his, you often need money to prove your Fair Use claim. This discuss started off by discussing the watershed Republican copyright memo that was later retracted after we presume Hollywood applied some pressure.

Oh, we also discuss the iPad Mini and Microsoft Surface.

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Brent Ozar tries to save a Word file on Microsoft Surface

Posted: October 27th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Notes | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

This is not how interaction design is supposed to work:

I don’t care if this is a preview or what not. Something this unusable should not be shipped.

This video shows a textbook example of poor design. Let’s postulate that the reason he can’t sign into Skydrive is that there is a server issue; that’s an issue that all cloud-based storage solutions have to deal with.

Graceful fallbacks are what is needed. There should be a way to save locally and have it upload to Skydrive when it works. There should at least be a way to X out of this menu and choose a different save option.

Errors do happen and graceful error handling is so important.


Episode 41: Getting to the Surface of WWDC 2012

Posted: June 25th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

We analyze WWDC 2012 in depth.

We go over what we’re excited about with iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion and what we don’t quite understand.

We also discuss how the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display completely changes my computer plans for this summer. I had been planning on buying a 13-inch MacBook Air and 27-inch Thunderbolt Display for so long. But now?

We also discuss Microsoft Surface. Is this the first real iPad competitor?

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