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I wont claim this is the most beautiful email solution possible, but it beats the shit out of the Outlook screenshot above! Clear, even spacing. You can easily tell how many messages are where, no insane icons.

about 13 hours ago on Jony Ive's iOS 7 redesign reportedly eliminates 'heavy textures' for a flat, 'black and white' design 1 reply 3 recommends

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And as $20 phones stop being featurephones, “dumbphones” and become smartphones sold for $20 while running Android…..Samsung is still selling a “87878 FC” model for a lower price, and in greater numbers. The only thing that changes is the tech inside.

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I’m not even tearing it a new arsehole for the “ripped paper edge” some genius applied to the screenshot. Look at the icons! The “Outlook logo” icon is gross, I hate the circular “Modern Style UI” buttons, and the “New” next to the gigantic button looks far too small……..it reminds me of Windows Mobile 6 or something, some bizarre tablet edition of Windows XP where they’ve zoomed in to “blow things up” and make elements “touch friendly”. Except its all inconsistent, HUGE text with a tiny number next to it, weird highlights (the grey highlighted Inbox compared to the blue “Flagged” on the right.) and spacing. Look at the gaps between “Adventure Works” and “Flagged” with the other messages! Then compare it to the gaps between the Search box and “FOLDERS”, with that massive “refresh icon” combined with the tiny looking email counts for Inbox, Junk and Drafts!

Things are crammed in every which way, and none of it looks good!

about 17 hours ago on Jony Ive's iOS 7 redesign reportedly eliminates 'heavy textures' for a flat, 'black and white' design 3 replies 4 recommends

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That “Outlook” screenshot is bloody awful! Different sized text slapped together, HUGE buttons, different selected option effects….

about 20 hours ago on Jony Ive's iOS 7 redesign reportedly eliminates 'heavy textures' for a flat, 'black and white' design 3 replies 4 recommends

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What a tragic illness. I kept looking up more and more related links. The museum in Phildelphia sounds ghastly!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCtter_Museum

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You bring up Venezuela, really?

“Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporting country in the world with the largest reserves of heavy crude oil at an estimated 99.4 billion barrels (1.580×1010 m3) as of 2010. Venezuela is the second largest reserves of light and heavy crude oil in the western hemisphere.2 In 2008, crude oil production in Venezuela was the tenth-highest in the world at 2,394,020 barrels per day (380,619 m3/d) and was also the eighth-largest net oil exporter in the world.3”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry

I might as well bring up Paraguay!

The USA has very lax energy standards compared to many nations. There is very little real talk about moving away from the same old fossil fuels – and people actually blame the president for fuel prices!

“As national gas prices average more than $3.80 a gallon, Mitt Romney sought to pin the price increase on President Obama, though he acknowledged that “no one can guarantee what the price of oil’s gonna be” and declined to pledge to bring prices down to a certain dollar figure if he is put in charge.
The Republican presidential candidate, speaking in an interview with Fox News, said he “absolutely” believes Mr. Obama is responsible for high gas prices, contending that “he has not pursued policies that convince the world that America is going to become energy secure, energy independent.”

Romney cited restrictions on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), as well Mr. Obama’s rejection (at least temporarily) of a permit to build a controversial pipeline that extends from Canada to Texas, as evidence that the president is sending a message to the world that “America’s not going to have the energy we need.”

“We’re going to have to continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy going into other nations,” Romney told Fox. “Even our natural gas resources, which were going to convince people we were going to use those for purposes of getting off oil, he hasn’t pursued that aggressively either.”

“His policies are responsible for not having America using the energy that we have in this country,” he continued.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57398116-503544/mitt-romney-obama-to-blame-for-high-gas-prices/

Mind bogglingly stupid. Right, so we should blow up everything we can in order to suck out any “Reservoirs of Mass Fossil Fuel” that might be hiding inside….because the alternative is effectively invading other nations, or even merely PAYING other nations for fuel?

Here in New Zealand we dont blame our prime minister if petrol prices go up a bit……and remember, Americans drive very large vehicles and pay very little for petrol in the first place! A “conservative” country, but not very conservative when it comes to energy.

What side of the road people drive on has no bearing on the vehicles and fuel wastage being vastly different.

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LOL! I seriously laughed :-)

I would love to see an expose on paid commenters etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writer)

1 day ago on Apple's new iPhone 5 ad 'Music Every Day' celebrates life with moving melody 3 recommends

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I freaking love these two ads by Apple, but I have to be honest: if this were any other company in Apples place, you would say “geez, they feel threatened!”. These two ads are GORGEOUS, really high production quality, really stirring. They give the brand, the megacompany an emotion. “Love us, we are great, we enjoy simple things, we make lovely things”.

Its Blackberry doing the “Be Bold superheroes”, that we are meant to connect with the people in the ad and say “YEAH, I’m an Apple person! Apple Inc. really understands me! I love my iPhone, and I’ll buy another one after this, because its really artistic and GREAT at playing back music! Those guys at Apple, they made the iPod after all, remember?”

See the whole horrendous breakdown about The Bold Team here, long image.

I love it, these are my favourite types of commercial advertising…..high quality, thematic, positive. But when the company is in this position, widely acknowledged as being fundamentally threatened by Android, Samsung’s market power and sales, HTC design, Google online services and Android OS….the ad feels a little bit lazy. “Dudes!” it says, “I’m totally going to repay you that twenty bucks, I swear! You know I’m good for it! Just let me stay another couple nights on your couch, we’re bros! You love us!” It doesnt actually DO anything though.

And imagine Apple CEO Tim Cook signing off on the ad. "OK team, we need lots of 20-somethings, attractive young professionals having fun, and thrown in a few token ethnicities too. What do the kids like these days…..music? MUSIC! Music never goes outta style! Why, lets do the whole iPod silhouette series all over again, eh? Just change the “iPod” to “iPhone” and call it a day. We’ll be crushing Samsung and Google again in NO time!"

1 day ago on Apple's new iPhone 5 ad 'Music Every Day' celebrates life with moving melody 1 reply

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WHOOOOP! I’m buying this thing I support Stock Android, Apple like design for Android and struggling HTC.

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Rubbish, many developed nations are far ahead of the US when it comes to renewable, cleaner forms of energy. Our petrol DOES cost more than in the USA…..you have cheaper petrol than most developed countries.

Your whole nation is so hellbent on coal and oil, it’s nuts. A friend from the UK visited the USA recently and couldn’t believe how cheap petrol was. “Everyone has these huge inefficient Mustangs and SUVs, they are cheap there, and they STILL complain about petrol costs!”

He also thought it was funny that all the cars are sludgy automatic transmission, and that you don’t really have roundabouts? It’s just like driving a dodgem car, GO and STOP between each traffic light, coal/oil/nuclear powered sparks flying off the Fords propulsion pole :-)

It’s not that difficult to imagine a more sustainable world, with less invasions for oil, “fracking”, nuclear silos and genetic modification.

“Stop standing in the way of progress” can work both ways :-)

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Try to calm down! :-)

People in developing nations are far more likely to be flooded with cheaper Samsung phones than “more expensive!” Nokia devices.

It’s simple, Samsung has perfectly functional 20USD featurephones right now, in New Zealand supermarkets. They are aimed at tourists I believe, Americans who can’t simply put a NZ SIM card into their locked down US device. They can pick up a twenty dollar phone with infinite battery life and have the thing just work.

It’s not about whether you or I prefer Nokia to Samsung. I certainly do! But what matters here is that Samsung is the WORLDS largest seller of phones, and Nokia makes up three quarters of 3%.

Samsung will always win in the numbers game.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply

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Really, the 3GS was bad for Apple?

I rated it as the worst iPhone ever….

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4088794/worst-ios-devices

….but it still beat the shit out of any Blackberry, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile or Android device around.

C’mon, the Droid was mostly known in the USA only, the “Milestone” was never a big hit worldwide on GSM. The Nexus One couldn’t be considered a success, it barely sold. Looking back at it now, it has weird design, a weird screen and The Dark Ages of Android OS.

The 3GS was a better seller than BOTH Android flagships of the time combined.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future

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The screen is just as godawful (pixels!!!!!) and the hardware is craptastic. My Palm Pre GSM bought as a firesale curiosity had “the Oreo effect” before I could even activate the thing properly!

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply

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Insert incorrectly remembered quote from the first movie, RE Tony Stark making a fusion reactor/suit in a cave.

“Sir, Im not Tony Stark!”

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Or clay :-)

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