Magical in its simplicity.
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An expat myself, I couln’t but identify myself to Alison, a very cool expat blogger based in Brussels, when I read her post “How Blogging Saved My Expat Life”.
I guess we all somehow experience the same feelings when we move for good to a new place we don’t know, a place we don’t speak the language and are not familiar yet with the culture.  A place we feel like a foreigner, though we now leave there. In her post Alison explains how to turn this, at first challenging, change into …

Hartmut Esslinger, one early superstar of high-tech design, was responsible for the design of Apple devices in the 80s. He then developed together with Steve Jobs a prototype of a touchscreen phone whose main function was to make possible sending digital bank checks though a phone wire. This quite revolutionnary gizmo – remember that we’re then in 1983 – was part of the Snow White design language applied to the IIc and the original Mac.
Was Apple already trying to raise the buzz?
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The well expected Apple’s iPad has been announced last week at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Cupertino’s firm has already made of its name, a legend with its iPhone, iBook, and iPod. But will it also meet with success  with the iPad, even with the dyed in the wool Apple lovers?
like it or lose it, it’s here, and in images.
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According to research from the University of California at San Diego—which has been transformed into this awesome accompanying graphic illustration by the artist Rob Vargas for Fast Company—Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes per day. Literally mind blowing…

Here’s a bit of the executive summary of the report:
In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to …

A real life story by Addy Dugdale of Fast Company

“Marmite is a British institution, a mud-colored, yeast-based gloop that you either spread on your toast or use as a cooking ingredient. It’s got a real love-it-or-loathe-it reputation–rather like working from home. My friends who work in offices are divided on the subject. “Poor you,” some of them sigh when they discover that I spend the majority of my working day–that’s 8.30am until around 6pm or so–like Macaulay whatsisname, Home. A. Lone. “You jammy bugger,” say the others, who see my …

Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make http://bit.ly/7mklqZ #
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December and Christmas 2009 http://bit.ly/5Zb0fw #
Nearly two million mobile WiMAX subscribers worldwide by year’s end, most eyeing LTE suspiciously http://bit.ly/5brH53 #
Nokia Booklet 3G review http://bit.ly/6IIzkw #
Dell creates communications division for push into handheld market http://bit.ly/4otr7g #
Watching the “Cuauthemoc” @ berth @ night in Acapulco Bay… Good memories from the Big Armada 2008 are coming back #

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The Internet is, as you know, quite vast. But how “vast”? Well, I had trouble visualizing how huge it was, but now thanks to this infographic by Online Education, I have a better idea of how it looks like…
So if you ever dreamed to see what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means, have a look at the image below.
Literally mindblowing…

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I can say with certainty that this is the best roller bag ever made. Why this particular bit of genius hasn’t caught on, I can’t imagine. Possibly because, like those who ride the accursed Segway, riders of this contraption would give off a certain “punch me” vibe. And yet, one can’t entirely suppress the feeling of wanting to switch places with them, if only for a moment. Shameful, but understandable.
The Trolley Scooter from Samsonite und Micro Mobility is the perfect tool for bloggers like myself who cumulates hundred of miles …