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Though I personally haven't used this, I know many people who do and use it very well. It seems like a great tool for UX proofing.

http://www.balsamiq.com/

Anyone else think this article is a plug for his app?

A lot of this seems like nitpicking. A lot is more android than Fire. Still more is completely unrelated since he talks about 3rd party apps not functioning well on the fire.

I do have to agree about the hardware buttons however. I'm not a fan of any device with no hardware buttons much less the lack of even volume controls.

I'm with you. The buttons on the top and the next are redundant. However, the worst bit is that if a point doesn't fit on the screen, you can't hit the down button on the keyboard to scroll down because the down button takes you to the next point. Painful.

how about a post on Apple 4S release with bugs causing battery drain. Or does MG believe apple can do no wrong.

I can see how my message would mean that, since I wanted my point to be brief.

I spend a lot of time reading to my kids and playing with them. I've seen how much they pick up that way. However, I haven't come across a book or way to hold my 2 yr old's attention to get them to learn ABCs and their sounds. She loves to read and see pictures and point at things but she isn't learning letters that way.

She watches about 15-20 mins of Leapfrog: Letter Factory and I was amazed how quickly she started recognizing her letters.

I'm not suggesting TV is a replacement to reading but rather than another medium of learning is a tool that can be leveraged.

Also my point was more towards the article headline (less so the content) in general where a blanket statement like 'watching TV = bad for infants'. Rather we should find a balance between reading, music, outside play and even TV.

There are a few shortcomings here

Having filters: Most users may use Inbox as the fall through location for emails. But a lot use filters as a way to move stuff out of the inbox to specific folders as a means to prioritize responses.

eg. My wife, business partner etc, might make it to folder important, my 2nd level priority emails go someplace else, mailing lists elsewhere and so on.

Inbox is whats left and is least priority. How do you account for whats important. What if I don't use priority inbox? What happens when I don't read the email in my inbox at all since it isn't critical to my day to day function.

This also doesn't account for a mail client use or mail forwarding from Google. Since Gmail provides a way to use a mail client or forward mail options, it means that I might read mail on my client but not report back to gmail or just read all the mail from another account.

Anyway, some thoughts to ponder over. May not be a mainstream problem since most users might not be doing what I suggested.

And its not a reason to not. If the kids can pick up ABCs/Numbers while watching 1/2 hr of TV or 1/2 hr of you working hands on with them, doesn't change anything. So advocating no TV is a poor reason in this particular case. I think we all agree there is a healthy balance to be met.

seems kinda pricey. renting 2 sets for $16/mo. I could hop on to target and buy 2 sets for the same price and I get to keep them till they outgrow them. I guess they need to deal with the overhead costs on shipping + cleaning + just plain gets old or torn.

Can't see the value in this.

Let me correct the title for you ' One More Thing: ‘iTunes Match’ Will DOWNGRADE Your Ripped Music For $24.99 A Year'. There much better.

I have my music ripped if VBR at low compression and FLAC. Clearly, itunes isn't dishing out nearly the same quality Music in return

i presume you use that to filter spam. you could always have your userid as your email where the email is always username+site@emailprovider.com

however, i have noticed some sites dont like the + which sucks because the spam model breaks down

Seems like an interesting proposition and makes sense overall. I can think of a few issues however.

1. You always need access to email to get access to a website. This means that for whatever reason you don't have email access, you are locked out of all sites.

2. While it works from a security standpoint, you still add overhead to the users task. Users have to go between website and email and back to website just to log in.

3. slow connections might make the task even more cumbersome since you now add the delay of checking emails just in addition to logging into the website.

ohhhh the tesla jokes on top gear for years to come from jeremy is something i'll look forward to.

you must have clicked on the rent vs buy article

this seems to make very little sense. most of the custom ROMs out there are based on Samsung's leaked 2.2 ROMs. If Samsung really didn't want to send out official updates for 2.2 they could stop the leaks and would kill XDA updates.

Also judging by the updates trickling in, there is still a lot of work being put in by Samsung to makes these ROMs stable. Almost every leaked ROM has issues. lag fixes and gps fixes on XDA seem to be the norm to work around them

i agree. cant really tell what is great about groupon and what is terrible about the echo logo.

looks great! really cool. no ncaaf?

definitely an interesting read. I'm a android user and i do agree with many points mentioned here. However, rooting an android isn't hard and the article also assumes default apps rather than ones that can be installed to achieve certain features. eg. non-google backup; there are several apps that backup to the cloud (mybackup pro, wavesecure, etc) that said i clearly didnt know webos strengths and it would be good it webos had more phones to choose from.

to clarify some misconceptions of this post

1. great since day 1. Well no copy and paste for 2 years? and great since day 1. Contradictory?

2. Hold Different? Great since day 1?

3. Needs iTunes desktop software.

4. No external storage options.

5. No background (until pseudo support in os4, clearly not day 1)

6. no open app store.

the list is never ending really. i sure hope the poster realizes despite these significant shortcomings, he thinks the iphone is great since day 1

can we get by a week in HN without fanboy posts?

totally true. the most valid point being that you have to be good at what you do. hell, you can do even better if you are really good. I wanted to see what it was like to live in London so I told my boss I'll be working out of there is he's okay with it. If not I'll be taking a leave of absence. He agreed to the work remotely. Tap on 3 weeks on vacation to the end of that and you feel like half the year is done for.

guy doesnt know what he's taking about. rant. wasted resource on HN

let me guess. apple fanboy.

I'd argue that with all the Apple talk about open standards, when not just open up the app store and then let users decide what is good/bad for the ecosystem. Why have a controlled environment. Why have a control on whether the user wants to shoot themselves in the foot.

frankly, its worse than bing. the page readability is miserable. Still moving the mouse to see the page load is my biggest gripe yet. That combined with the fact that it loses the search keyboards sometimes when I hit the back button (on firefox).

I disagree. I think if anything there are more people dying because of high blood pressure and other illnesses linked through it than low-sodium issues. Besides, the fix to low-sodium, eat more salt. The fix to high blood pressure, exercise and medication.

ha! you are joking. his options 1. mail it to apple 2. facebook gray 3. take it to the apple store and talk to a manager 4. take it back to the bar where he "found" it and gray called a million times to see if it was returned. 5. sell it to gizmodo for $5000.

ah! i see why he chose option 5.

as far as I'm concerned this is exactly how it should be if windows os's in the EU gives user a choice of browser/search engine and does just push IE. The same should apply to smartphones. I dislike the fact that google products are so tied in into android. I should have the option to choose the apps I want even if they are from google.

revenue. at&t can charge yahoo/bing as the default browser/search engine on their android handsets

while there are many such free services I have found, I've still not managed to find one that supports the addition of reverse dns lookups. anyone aware of such as sevice?