How To Pick a Good Domain Name That Doesn't Suck - Choosing a Good Domain Name How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap | Education on GOOD This story is the final in a six part editorial series exploring the balance between student learning and job skills. We're asking leaders and thinkers in education and technology fields: Can America educate its way out of the skills gap? This series is brought to you by GOOD, with support from Apollo Group. Learn more about our efforts to bridge the skills gap at Coding for GOOD. What if I were to tell you that you could learn more about how to solve the skills gap from a dating site than from a quantitative international study? As a systems designer at IDEO, I'm always looking for innovative ways to go about understanding and framing problems. The first technique is using analogous illustrations as a source for critical problem solving. A second approach used by design thinkers that could help illuminate unconventional solutions to the skills gap is looking to extremes instead of the norm. The third technique takes into account the human experience.
BitTorrent Launches Private and Secure Dropbox Alternative BitTorrent Inc. has released a new application that allows users to securely sync folders to multiple devices using the BitTorrent protocol. The free application has no storage limits and can serve both as a public backup system and a shared drive. BitTorrent Sync is especially efficient for groups who need to share many large files over the Internet,. BitTorrent is a very powerful distribution tool. There is simply no faster way than BitTorrent for those who share files with several devices at once. Just ask Twitter and Facebook, two major technology companies that rely on BitTorrent technology to distribute files across their networks. For the public, however, there’s never really been a good tool to securely backup and sync files over the Internet via BitTorrent. BitTorrent Sync has very similar functions to those offered by popular cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Skydrive, except for the fact that there’s no cloud involved.
Comment Path a changé ma vie sur les réseaux sociaux. J’utilise Path depuis quelques semaines maintenant. Il est peu dire que ce fut une grande découverte… Comme beaucoup d’early adopters, j’ai commencé à utiliser les réseaux sociaux en 2007. Avant cela j’avais l’habitude de bloguer. Lorsque Facebook a atteint son « tipping point » vers juin 2007, en tant que blogueur j’ai commencé à devenir schizophrène: « Devais-je continuer à poster des billets personnels sur mon blog? Devais-je plutôt utiliser Facebook pour cela? Aujourd’hui, 5 ans plus tard, je n’utilise pas moins de 10 réseaux sociaux. Path a été conçu pour la communication entre amis proches. La semaine dernière j’ai commencé à supprimer des amis sur les réseaux. Au sommet: Path via lequel je poste des contenus pour les amis proches. En conclusion Path est un outil formidable. Source : Michel Levy-Provençal – Mikiane – Google+ – How « Path » has changed my life on the Internet.
Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy of UX Design We toss around the term “user experience” (UX) a lot, mostly as a shorthand for something like “where industrial design meets interface design.” But to be perfectly honest, that tendency does this branch of design very little justice. The Disciplines of User Experience Design is a mega Venn diagram by Dan Saffer (given a pretty makeover by Thomas Gläser) that explores all of the overlap between UX and other fields of design. You’ll see UX’s overlap with architecture, human factors, sound design, and computer science--and you’ll also see its sweet spot, interaction design, with user interface and all of its tentacles at its heart. To be fair, it’s impossible to present a thesis on design like this without inviting the Internet masses to scrutinize its organization. But to critique a piece like this is to ungratefully overlook its utility: Don’t see this as the only road map for the entire UX design industry, but a postulation as to why it’s so darned complicated to nail good UX.
Ubuntu Studio 12.10 DVD (on bootable) LinuxLive USB | unSpy My laptop crashed and so I made the switched to Ubuntu. Here is my story. A few days ago I was uninstalling a program from Window’s 7 and as a result the entire system crashed. After that everything move very slowly but the CPU meter showed me running at 1% (when it felt like 99%). I didnt’t have a restore point and no back up disc. I had previously installed Ubuntu on my laptop and I found it was still working like a champ. Yesterday I got Ubuntu Studio (12.10) running and I love it. Ironically, I had just ordered the standard Ubuntu 12.10 disc off eBay a few days before my laptop crashed, and my plan was to upgrade and run both like I had been. After a little research I download the LinuxLive USB Key Creator (linuxliveusb.com). The great thing about LinuxLive is it allows you to launch what ever version of Ubuntu you want directly in any Windows without any configuration nor software installation on your hard drive. Move over Microsoft, I found my new OS! The installation is superb.
How-To: $5 Mobile Phone Projector The folks at Photojojo just posted a neat low-tech tutorial on how to make a projector for your mobile phone using a shoebox, a paperclip, and a magnifying glass. MacGyver would be proud. They were able to find the magnifying glass at a dollar store for, well, a dollar (so they called it the $1 projector), but let’s just call it $5 before people get up in arms because they can’t find that screaming deal. Basically, you start by cutting a hole out of one side of the shoebox to match your magnifying glass and taping the glass on the box. Related gc-linux