Google has finally made mail do what it should do.  They’ve made a mail app that understands who’s mail you want to read. Best of all it learns from your actions. This allows the priorities to change over time. Not one set of rules, an evolving set of based on your behavior. It’s as smart an idea as iOS visual voice mail. Finally everyday tasks accomplished the way you expect they should happen.

We’re about to go over and test it out for a bit.

Looks smart. Let’s see if it is smart.

Jeff Bezos made fun of the iPad when he introduced his new mini Kindle. “What’s the number one thing people are doing on an iPad? he said. Then mentioned some game the equivilent of Whack a Mole.

Well, everyone I have met is using it for productivity. Answering e-mail reading proposals, reading on the web.  So, where does the iPad go from here?

Bigger and better places we think.

Apple hones that message and direction in this new ad.

Google has backpedaled on its ambitious plans for HTML5 and H.264 playback somewhat after buying On2 and releasing its VP8 video codec as WebM. It has also cozied up to Adobe to prominently promote Android and the forthcoming Chrome OS as a Flash-compatible platforms.

— from Appleinsider

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

—Paul Rand

http://www.paul-rand.com >

word.

http://molly.com >

With the continued hoopla we believe this is even more true. More and more mobile devices will use HML 5 moving forward. Investigations of Apple refusing Flash are now underway due to Adobe throwing around it’s weight. The mobile web is injecting itself in the arguement and we don’t believe Flash will endure.

We came across this word in some reading and it’s meaning wasn’t clear. Time for a google search. Our discovery — we knew the process but not the word.

This process xeriscaping, using less “thirsty” plants and landscaping has come into greater use in the west where the conservation of water has become more acute. Yet looking at the parks and small squares in our city this summer it seems like more careful planting becomes more necessary. Our last rain, over two weeks ago saved us from drought conditions. Yet, as we face another week of 90°+ temperatures and only the smallest chance of rain we wonder how many shrubs and young trees will be lost.

It seems that even in eastern cities we can begin looking at these methods along with permeable walkways and pavement to use our rainfall more wisely.

Here’s a link to some xeriscaping images.

from wikipedia:

Xeriscaping and xerogardening refers to landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental water from irrigation. It is promoted in regions that do not have easily accessible, plentiful, or reliable supplies of fresh water, and is gaining acceptance in other areas as climate patterns shift.

Based on Seven Principles

1. Plan and design
2. Soil amendment
3. Efficient irrigation
4. Appropriate plant and zone selection
5. Mulch
6. Alternative/practical turf
7. Appropriate Maintenance

Books won’t be books if the imagination doesn’t draw the images. However this new platform – iOS is the start of something different. It is a blending of ways in which we experience meaning.

The interactive aspects have to be more than bells and whistles and expand understanding. This is a tool that can help us do that.

Filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr. made this mash-up of footage from PBS’s Charlie Rose show, entitled “Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.” The converstation afterward with Larry Lessig, Steven Johnson, and Shepard Fairey.

This is an hour and 43 minutes long. Make sure that you are prepared for settling in and enjoy the questions raised in this presentation and conversations.

Modern creativity, technology, and the law.

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