Inconsistency

I previously blogged about my happy purchase of the IPEVO Skype phone.  It won an industrial design award and seemed to have solved the problem of echo during a call.  However, after about three months of usage, it completely died.

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Strangely, after I hit Submit Error Report, all the tabs stayed and including the iLike tab.

Anyway, I really like the user experience of the browser.  On the other hand, it lags ALL the time on my machine which is really annoying.

Technorati Tags: google, chrome, browser, crashed, crash

Check out their website.  I don’t know if I should be laughing at how geeky this is, or their tagline: “Your kids will love ‘em!”

Sure this will come into handy when I brainwash my kid someday to become an ID.

I am recently working on a project where the team had proposed that the site should use a lot of interactivity to boost engagement.  While I agree to a great extent, I am also an advocate for simplistic design where a person can scroll through the page and look at content with minimum effort.

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Check out this awesome tag cloud from a Hong Kong website:

There are also lots of other cool things in the site worth checking out.  The site is full of rich media.  They are definitely catching up quickly.

Spotted this new feature while entering password for my email:

The number will be display for about a couple seconds before it turns back into an asterisk.  Interesting approach.  I totally agree with Apple that it’s hard to verify the password I am punching in.  But I still don’t think it helps too much.  What about a conveniently located “Show Typing” button that I can just switch back and forth with like the Mac OSX Keychain?

Technorati Tags: iphone, password, asterisk, interaction, design, usability, apple, mac

Wow! I totally didn’t realize taking screenshots on the iPhone doesn’t need any fancy app and is native to the device.  Here is my iPhone home screens:

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Google says mobile web app but Apple says native app.

I think they both got it right.  Check out this app Zoho using the Google platform.  I think online or native, one of the most important thing I care about is what happens when I lost internet connectivity.

These people don’t live in New York.  They don’t understand subways doesn’t have internet connection.  They don’t understand AT&T sucks.  I downloaded a bunch of iPhone app and all I want to do is to play some game while in the subway.  With Zoho, it works even offline.  This is extremely important when we start talking about mobile computing.

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I used to know how to ride a bike when I was a kid, but somehow I just never got a chance to ride since elementary school and had forgotten how. After re-learning it a couple months ago, I am completely hooked. The bike I am riding now is my boyfriend’s BMX. It’s a great bike overall but I wish it’s not single speed. Going uphill is a pain.

I researched and read a ton of reviews on all the bike shops in Brooklyn and the city. I went to most of them, but the sad part is I still haven’t found a bike. It’s hard to find a decent bike shop in this town. Usually they will try to sell you something very expensive and completely ignore you when you tell them your budget.

Here is a list of all the shops I checked out and thoughts:

Frank’s Bike Shop (Yelp Profile)
This place got really good reviews on Yelp a while ago but things had since changed. The place had gotten 5-stars consistently all the way up to May 2008 and has been dropping ever since. See Yelp details below:

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“Turn to the right”, “Open the Car Door Now”, “Smile with your eyes and not your mouth”

I love this campaign.  The metaphor works well for me.  The TV ad was smart and funny.  The site itself was really engaging and sophisicated.  It’s an all around win-win.

The site in question is: http://www.sexysubaru.ca/index2.php?lang=en

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