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A dreamer, innovator, and risk-taker. This is a look into the mind of Connor Edwards, a creative problem solver from Vancouver.

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HP's ultrabook

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop:

HP Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff talking about how they didn’t copy Apple:

I think if you look at the new Spectre XT, there are similarities in a way, not due to Apple but due to the way technologies developed. Apple may like to think that they own silver, but they don’t. In no way did HP try to mimic Apple. In life there are a lot of similarities.”

Yeah Stacy, because this looks nothing like a MacBook Air, nothing at all.

Just a shitty, Chinese rip-off of one.

Posted on Wednesday, May 9th 2012

Tags tech

Scoople Bits: Consumers would have preferred Twitter for Instagram

scoople:

According to recent results collected in Scoople, a social network app for news, a majority is concerned that Facebook will gradually destroy the Instagram user experience and would have strongly preferred for Twitter to be the new owner. At the same time, a significant majority acknowledges…

I would tend to agree with all of this.

Posted on Monday, April 23rd 2012

Tags technology m&a

Reblogged from Scoople Bits  Source scoople

Creating ifttt recipes

I’ve been raving about my favorite web service, If This Then That (ifttt), for awhile now. The possibilities for this platform (and that’s exact what it is) are literally endless.

However, until today, I’ve never tested my hand at creating recipes. I searched for what I was looking for to no avail, so today I tried to create my own.

ifttt is based on the simple premise using the following framework:

If [this] happens, then do [that].

I wanted to create the following:

If gas prices fall below $X/gal (or $1.20/L in my case), then send me a SMS.

I wanted to use the Gas Buddy RSS feed for my city to pull user-reported data, but Gas Buddy seems to use the ASP framework to create RSS for Yahoo accounts only.

This is what’s holding me up, as ifttt’s RSS channel supports the standard XML-based RSS only (and so it should– who uses Yahoo anymore?!).

If I can find a regular RSS feed for Gas Buddy, an alternative site for Gas Buddy, or a way to convert (Yahoo Pipes, anyone?) the ASP-RSS to a regular RSS feed that ifttt can read, I’ll be set!

Until then, I’ll be relying on the Gas Buddy iOS app for now.

 
 

Posted on Monday, April 23rd 2012

Tags technology code thinkoutloud

1999 called, they want their technology back.

1999 called, they want their technology back.

Posted on Sunday, April 22nd 2012