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My UX Australia Slides

As well as being available on Slideshare, the slides from my UX Australia talk on technology are now embedded here for your viewing pleasure.

Team Name Changes Formally Approved by the FIA

The FIA has formally agreed to Lotus, Renault & Virgin changing their team names for 2012.

This isn’t just about team names, it’s about chassis names. Teams can call themselves anything they want from year to year (within reason, of course) but they cannot rename their chassis unless the majority of the teams and the FIA approve. If a team does rename their chassis without this approval, they’re deemed to be a new entry into the championship and so lose the previous season’s prize money.

So next year’s Lotus will be a Caterham, next year’s Renault will be a Lotus and next year’s Virgin will be a Marussia.

All clear? Good.

“In almost permanent possession of the wrong end of the stick in every aspect of their lives”

Sarcasm is hard to convey on Twitter.

Alessi Tèo

The Tèo by Alessi heralds the end of unrefined teabag squishing.

(Via Tools & Toys)

A Great Tip for Giving Feedback on UI Details

As some of the commenters have pointed out, this method of illustrating differences in spacing between an element is very Edward Tufte.

Square Card Case

Square just keeps on innovating:

So once you opt-in one time to the geofencing feature in the app, when you (and your phone) are within 100 meters of a Square merchant you can simple [sic] walk into the store, say your name at checkout and you are good to go with the payment. You don’t need to pull your phone out at all or open the app.

Like I said, the future of payments isn’t going to involve little bits of plastic.

Bond 23

James Bond will next appear on your screens in “Skyfall”. I can hear Ben shrieking from here…

(Wouldn’t have happened in Connery’s day. “Schkyfall?”)

There Is No Such Thing…

…as too much cheese

Using iCloud to Sync Data Between Macs

Make an alias of ‘~/Libary/Mobile Documents’, turn on iCloud syncing of ‘Documents & Data’ and voila — file syncing across all Macs associated with your iCloud account.

What if you were to keep your iTunes library in that folder? Would that allow you to store your music on a home computer (in that folder) and have it sync up your music, playlists, ratings etc. with your other Macs?