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NumberKey: numeric keypad for notebook

NumberKey, and iPhone app which acts as a number keypad for your Mac

The power of the mobile phone to end poverty

Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi — and to become a champion of bottom-up development.

Google LIFE photo archive

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

iPhone 2.2 Software Update is Out

iPhone 2.2 Software Update is now available, and includes Google Stree View, enhancements to mail, improved Safari, and lot of bug fixes. Overall a let down, still no cut/copy/paste, video, MMS, background processes, and push. Here are the features in this update:

Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
- Public transit and walking directions
- Display address of dropped pins
- Share location via email
Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls

Enhancements to Mail
- Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
- Improved formatting of wide HTML email
Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

Improved stability and performance of Safari
Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

What were they thinking?

Sarah Palin Turkey Interview

Sarah Palin clueless of Turkey’s being slaughtered in the background while she is being interviewed.

8 tips for new illustration ideas

If you are finding it harder and harder to come up with new idea for illustration, then check out 8 tips from EastByWest that could jump start your next illustration

There are a lot of times when I just start at a blank sheet of paper hoping that I’ll get a bolt of inspiration. Unfortunately, that rarely happens, so over the years I’ve come up with some methods to help me get in the groove.

Why do nutheads use vi?

Demystifying vi editor and why people who use it love it.

No, they are not dinosaurs who don’t want to catch up with the times – the community of vi users just keeps growing: myself, I only got started 2 years ago (after over 10 years of being a professional programmer). Friends of mine are converting today. Heck, most vi users were not even born when vi was written!

Kvetch: An anonymous oracle of complaint

Kvench, an anonymous way to complain on twitter.

“You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name on them? Those brilliant angry complaints that would feel so good to get off your chest? Now you can.”

HEAT: A Frontline investigation into global warming

Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts. On the eve of a historic election, award-winning producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the world’s largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth’s looming environmental disaster.

How to get clients to say yes

From Paul Boag’s presentation on how to Educate Clients to say Yes.

It’s time for us to change, moving from a master/servant mentality to a peer to peer mentality. We have to take the role of an expert and make them perceive us that way. But how?

We have to educate the client, and explain what their role is, which will help them understand each step and also contstrain them.

Shift the client’s view on users moves them away from personal opinion. They won’t say “I don’t like”… Get them to say “I don’t think our users will like…”

Based on published ad rates and traffic numbers, it’s estimated that Matt Drudge makes “over a million a year.” Not bad for a single black and white page on the internet.