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by tcarnell 17y ago
We're almost there, one step removed and we'll have it. Let's replace 'stupid' for 'greedy'. Then --> more fool the iPhone users that are paying billions of dollars for average/poor applications that could be replaced by FREE, high qual
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by tcarnell 17y ago
In fairness, you'd have to be fairly stupid not to know where would be a good place to put paths - People tend to walk in straight lines from A-B (or door-to-door on a campus)
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by tcarnell 17y ago
Good. Finally. I realised this a long time ago, when I used to walk to school and got told off for taking short-cuts over the grass/plants - the truth is I wasn't taking a short-cut - the plants were just in the wrong place! People will not
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by tcarnell 17y ago
The wireless 'Copy and Paste' mouse - click a file or highlighted text, click a 'copy' button on your mouse and the data is transferred to an SD card in the mouse... point the mouse at another computer and click the 'paste' button on the mo
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by tcarnell 17y ago
A toaster combined with a smoke alarm 'SHOULD' result in a machine that does not burn toast.
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by tcarnell 17y ago
...I'm working on this now! I am planning to add a feature to Femtoo.com ( http://www.femtoo.com ) so that users can drop a 'track this page' link onto their site (blog etc) and be notified of changes... ...should be done by the weekend...
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by tcarnell 17y ago
Point 2 - you could try to see if Femtoo.com ( http://www.femtoo.com ) (Internet tracking and notifications) will help solve your problem. I built it with the intention of 'reducing' the amount of correspondance, and to only notify you of s
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by tcarnell 17y ago
Point 2: You can use Femtoo.com ( http://www.femtoo.com ) to track a webpage (wikipedia for example) to be notified of new seasons/episodes... You can be notified by email and Instant Messager (if you register using a gmail account).
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by tcarnell 17y ago
You can use http://www.femtoo.com for exactly this! With Femtoo.com you can track events - you can specify what type of event you are interested in (conferences for example), enter some keywords (Java, Pottery etc) and when the event is s
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by tcarnell 17y ago
cool! but please immediately implement a 'mute' button! :-)
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Ask HN: Why do people use hibernate (or any ORM)?
4 points by tcarnell 17y ago|1 comments
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by tcarnell 17y ago
Very good point. I've been toying with different approaches to the front page - I think you're spot on, and yes Femtoo certainly IS beta! I am trying to follow the points on my list...honest! thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.
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by tcarnell 17y ago
very true, Femtoo is still very much work in progress, but I am trying to aspire to the point on my list! (thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated)
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by tcarnell 17y ago
1. Purposeful 2. Coherent 3. Intuitive 4. Responsive 5. Distinctive 6. Enjoyable And more or less in that order. It's certainly how I have designed http://www.femtoo.com (sorry about the obvious plug!)
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by tcarnell 17y ago
I have soo many issues with Facebook - I think the usability is dreadful - for example the actual amount of screen real estate used for 'actual' content is tiny, the IM windows are tiny and hidden away in the corner, every page looks the sa
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by tcarnell 17y ago
I'm also a big fan of http://fizy.com/ but I dont know what technologies were used.
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by tcarnell 17y ago
opp, forgot the important part: it's been done in PHP, jQuery,jQueryUI
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by tcarnell 17y ago
I really like the simplicity and 'cue card' approach of Femtoo.com, it also tackles tricky concepts for non-techy users in a non-assuming way. http://www.femtoo.com
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by tcarnell 17y ago
...so having built my own web application, I've realised that yes, it's probably best to build 'horizontally' and sell 'vertically' !!!
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by tcarnell 17y ago
I'm not sure any of these are a healthy approach to build something 'useful'. I'm sure once you have built a useful product you could later say that it was 'Horizontal' or 'Vertical' etc, but to build a product strategy based on these conce