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Can you have a personal movie theater and tune your favorite radio station? Can you play games without a console? Can you create your imagination virtually? Can you fit the classrooms of the future in your backpack?To find out the answers, check the tenth episode of Spread Positive Infinity with Author Sridevi. Please subscribe and follow me on Apple podcast, Spotify and your other favorite podcasting apps so that you don't miss the next episode. Stay tuned every Friday for the latest episode. Let's Attract Positivity, Repel Negativity and Spread Positive Infinity. My podpage site: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/spread-positive-infinity⁠  Follow me on :  Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/authorsridevi.positiveinfinity⁠  Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/authorsridevi.positiveinfinity⁠  Youtube:  ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@authorsridevi.positiveinfinity⁠ Gmail: ⁠authorsridevi.positiveinfinity@gmail.com ⁠ GRAB YOUR BOOK COPY OF POSITIVE INFINITY

We didn't even start on the rails for this one, but it's all over the place with games and stuff.

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We've seen the trend of big phones, televisions, and computer monitors ebb and flow over the past few years. We lived through the era of phablets, and now we're seeing behemoth 85” TV's become a common size being offered.But is bigger actually better, scientifically (and personally)?Full show notes are available at the Queens of the Drone Age website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've seen the trend of big phones, televisions, and computer monitors ebb and flow over the past few years. We lived through the era of phablets, and now we're seeing behemoth 85” TV's become a common size being offered. But is bigger actually better, scientifically (and personally)? Full show notes are available at the Queens of the Drone Age website.

Jason Cipriani, Jason Perlow, and special guest ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Larry Dignan discuss the Samsung phone that changed the mobile device industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dr. Rex Archer shares passionately about the biblical and spiritual mandates for public health. His knowledge of biblical justice and how it relate to public health are admirable. We could have easily talked for another hour or two about the heart of biblical justice. If you are listening to this podcast, you may want to watch the video on YouTube or my website (realfredherron.com) so that you can see the slides in Dr. Archer's presentation. The slides are excellent. Dr. Rex Archer serves as Director of Health for the City of Kansas City, Missouri. He is responsible for safeguarding the public health of nearly half a million residents and a daytime population of almost one million people. Under Dr. Archer's leadership, the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department is, to date, the only health department in the country to receive PHABLET accreditation and reaccreditation, win NACCHO's Local Health Department of the Year award twice, and lead their community to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize. He completed his medical degree at the University of Kansas and his General Preventive Medicine Public Health Residency and Masters in Public Health degree at the University of Michigan. If you like what you've heard, support us by subscribing, leaving reviews, sharing, and visiting our support page link below. The reviews help us to spread the word. https://www.realfredherron.com/support

The forthcoming iPadOS isn't even out yet, and it has already claimed its first victim, cadets -- Google is jettisoning its attempts to compete and leaving the USS iPad and the CCCP Surface to battle it out for not-quite-a-laptop supremacy! Apple has grown its sales in China again, updated its old AirPort base stations and recalled batteries, and as a result remains officially the most efficient and productive ship in the fleet! New challengers have arrived in orbit to challenge the Adobe homeworld, gamers may die mad at Apple's success in their realm, Lightroom arrives on the Mac App Store and the Galaxy Note 10 is preparing to launch while the Galaxy Fold is undergoing an extended drydock! Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Dr. Mario are arriving for iOS, the good ship Sprint/T-Mobile Merger fires its Boost rockets, the Dalek -- er, Robocall Invasion of Earth may finally be repelled, Best Buy gets some credibility, and as a reminder ... we're about to leave the 32-bit galaxy and there's no turning back now! All this and your weekly all-you-can-eat buffet of fail and what-the rations to enjoy, new charger technology and cool tech gear, a happy ending and some clueless YouTubers who take things a bit too literally. Break out your Microsoft To-Do lists, cadets ... you're gonna learn a few what-not-to-do lessons on this one!

In this episode, we visit the matrix, learn how to make all business decisions better, and can the machine really understand leases? Our guests today: Tony Benson, Enterprise Account Executive of BIS. Learn more about BIS.   Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Flutura Giveaway Enter here to win! Sign-up for your chance to win a branded Flutura & OGGN Port Authority Cyber Backpack! Product Reviews  Square Jellyfish Spring Tripod Mount  This is the Metal Version of our best-selling Spring Tripod Mount. Can hold a Smartphone or Phablet from 2 1/4 to 3 5/8 inches wide. Works with any tripod with a universal screw mount including our Square Jellyfish Pocket Tripod, Jelly Micro Legs tripod, or Jelly Long Legs. Works with nearly every phone on the market, including phones and phablets with thick cases on them including the new iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus. Lifetime Warranty – Just send us a picture of the problem and we will send you a replacement free of charge. Go to our website to find our contact information.  If you have a tech product you want me to review, reach out and let me know!  Monthly Happy Hour OGGN is always accepting Happy Hour sponsors.  If you would like to get your company in front of our large young, professional audience, reach out to our Project Coordinator, Julie McLelland by e-mail. Upcoming Events Golf for Good -- Sponsorship or Attending | June 11th, 2019 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit | June 12-13th, 2019 Energy in Data Conference | June 17-19th, 2019 Energy Exposition | June 26-27th, 2019 Argentina Frac Sand Logistics 2019 Exhibition and Conference | June 24-25, 2019 Shoot For the Future | July 26th, 2019 NAPE Summer | August 21-22nd, 2019 More Oil and Gas Global Network Podcasts Oil and Gas This Week Podcast | Oil and Gas HS&E Podcast | Oil and Gas Startups Podcast | Oil and Gas Industry Leaders | Oil and Gas Legal Risk | Oil and Gas Onshore | Permian Perspective Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | Facebook | modalpoint Connect with Mark LaCour LinkedIn| E-Mail | Oil and Gas Global Network  

语言会随着人类的生活方式的改变不断的进化，网络时代，尤是如此。很多新词在不经意间就诞生了，纵然不少人会对它们嗤之以鼻，但不能否认的是，很多新词的使用人数和频率逐步增长，而且已经转变成大家熟悉的语言了。下面就介绍这几年被收录进《牛津辞典》的一些热门英语流行词。New Words:glamorous ['glæmərəs] adj. 迷人的，富有魅力的episode ['ɛpɪsod] n. 插曲；一段情节；emphatic [ɪm'fætɪk; em-] adj. 着重的；"Bro hug" 哥们儿拥抱Definition: a friendly embrace between two men.定义：两个男人之间的友好拥抱。"YOLO" 你只活一次（缩写）Definition: "You only live once;" used to express the view that one should make the most of the present moment without worrying about the future.定义：你只活一次。所表达的观点是，一个人应该充分把握眼前，活在当下，不要为未来担忧。"Selfie" 自拍Definition: a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.定义：某人给自己拍的照片，特指用智能手机或其他设备拍下并分享到社交媒体的照片。"Yas" （感叹词）Definition: expressing great pleasure or excitement.定义：表达极大的愉悦或兴奋之情。"Phablet" 平板手机Definition: a smartphone having a screen which is intermediate in size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer.定义：屏幕大小介于普通智能手机和平板电脑之间的智能手机。"Glam-ma" 时尚奶奶Definition: a glamorous grandmother, especially one who is relatively young or fashion-conscious.定义：风韵犹存的高龄女性，尤指相对年轻、有时尚气息的老奶奶。"Emoji" 表情符号Definition: a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc.定义：用来表达想法和情感的电子小图标。"Bestie" 最好的朋友Definition: a person's best friend.定义：一个人最好的朋友。"Binge-watch" 刷剧Definition: to watch multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.定义：连续追看多集电视剧，特指看光碟或流媒体网站。"Worstest" 最坏最坏Definition: worst in emphatic use.定义：对“最坏”的强调。下面是更多被收录的流行语："Adorbs" 讨人喜欢 Definition: arousing great delight; cute or adorable.定义：令人愉快；可爱、讨人喜欢。"Fuhgeddaboudit" 忘了它吧 Definition: forget about it (used to indicate that a scenario is unlikely or undesirable).定义：忘了它吧（用来暗示某个场景不太可能发生或令人不快）。"Vom" 呕吐 Definition: vomit.定义：呕吐。"Gaydar" 同性恋雷达 Definition: the supposed ability of homosexuals to recognize one another by means of very slight indications.定义：同性恋凭借细微暗示就能识别出对方性取向的能力。"Dance-off" 舞林大会 Definition: a competition, or a round in a competition, in which a number of dancers compete against each other until a winner is declared.定义：舞者互相比拼舞技的比赛，直到评选出最后的赢家。"Bookaholic" 书痴 Definition: a habitual and prolific reader; a compulsive book buyer.定义：爱读书、读很多书的人；不停买书的人。"Twerk" 电臀舞 Definition: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.定义：随着流行音乐跳性感热舞，包括臀部前后左右扭动，身体下蹲等动作。"Vlog" 视频博客 Definition: a personal website or social media account where a person regularly posts short videos.定义：定期上传短视频的个人网站或社交媒体账户。"Glamping" 豪华野营 Definition: a form of camping involving accommodation and facilities more luxurious than those associated with traditional camping.定义：住宿和设施比传统野营更豪华的野营。"Hangry" 饿怒 Definition: bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.定义：因为饥饿而脾气暴躁。英文来源：Insider

语言会随着人类的生活方式的改变不断的进化，网络时代，尤是如此。很多新词在不经意间就诞生了，纵然不少人会对它们嗤之以鼻，但不能否认的是，很多新词的使用人数和频率逐步增长，而且已经转变成大家熟悉的语言了。下面就介绍这几年被收录进《牛津辞典》的一些热门英语流行词。New Words:glamorous ['glæmərəs] adj. 迷人的，富有魅力的episode ['ɛpɪsod] n. 插曲；一段情节；emphatic [ɪm'fætɪk; em-] adj. 着重的；"Bro hug" 哥们儿拥抱Definition: a friendly embrace between two men.定义：两个男人之间的友好拥抱。"YOLO" 你只活一次（缩写）Definition: "You only live once;" used to express the view that one should make the most of the present moment without worrying about the future.定义：你只活一次。所表达的观点是，一个人应该充分把握眼前，活在当下，不要为未来担忧。"Selfie" 自拍Definition: a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.定义：某人给自己拍的照片，特指用智能手机或其他设备拍下并分享到社交媒体的照片。"Yas" （感叹词）Definition: expressing great pleasure or excitement.定义：表达极大的愉悦或兴奋之情。"Phablet" 平板手机Definition: a smartphone having a screen which is intermediate in size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer.定义：屏幕大小介于普通智能手机和平板电脑之间的智能手机。"Glam-ma" 时尚奶奶Definition: a glamorous grandmother, especially one who is relatively young or fashion-conscious.定义：风韵犹存的高龄女性，尤指相对年轻、有时尚气息的老奶奶。"Emoji" 表情符号Definition: a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc.定义：用来表达想法和情感的电子小图标。"Bestie" 最好的朋友Definition: a person's best friend.定义：一个人最好的朋友。"Binge-watch" 刷剧Definition: to watch multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.定义：连续追看多集电视剧，特指看光碟或流媒体网站。"Worstest" 最坏最坏Definition: worst in emphatic use.定义：对“最坏”的强调。下面是更多被收录的流行语："Adorbs" 讨人喜欢 Definition: arousing great delight; cute or adorable.定义：令人愉快；可爱、讨人喜欢。"Fuhgeddaboudit" 忘了它吧 Definition: forget about it (used to indicate that a scenario is unlikely or undesirable).定义：忘了它吧（用来暗示某个场景不太可能发生或令人不快）。"Vom" 呕吐 Definition: vomit.定义：呕吐。"Gaydar" 同性恋雷达 Definition: the supposed ability of homosexuals to recognize one another by means of very slight indications.定义：同性恋凭借细微暗示就能识别出对方性取向的能力。"Dance-off" 舞林大会 Definition: a competition, or a round in a competition, in which a number of dancers compete against each other until a winner is declared.定义：舞者互相比拼舞技的比赛，直到评选出最后的赢家。"Bookaholic" 书痴 Definition: a habitual and prolific reader; a compulsive book buyer.定义：爱读书、读很多书的人；不停买书的人。"Twerk" 电臀舞 Definition: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.定义：随着流行音乐跳性感热舞，包括臀部前后左右扭动，身体下蹲等动作。"Vlog" 视频博客 Definition: a personal website or social media account where a person regularly posts short videos.定义：定期上传短视频的个人网站或社交媒体账户。"Glamping" 豪华野营 Definition: a form of camping involving accommodation and facilities more luxurious than those associated with traditional camping.定义：住宿和设施比传统野营更豪华的野营。"Hangry" 饿怒 Definition: bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.定义：因为饥饿而脾气暴躁。英文来源：Insider

This week we get into a subject we realized has been lacking on our show, technology. We talk about some of the new cell phones and phablets coming out soon. We discuss the updates to the Chris Hardwick and James Gunn stories. We also talk about the trailers for upcoming movies and TV shows that have come out in the last week. As usual there is also the usual side tracks, shenanigans, and booze.

O novo Phablet da Apple, os biochips que podem ser inseridos no nosso cérebro e os problemas legais do Facebook relativos à privacidade, para ouvir aqui. (Imagem: Tinh tế - _DSF9422-Edit, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62707698)

On this episode we discuss Jemele Hill vs Donald Trump, the Nike NBA jersey unveiling, Kevin Hart's extortion issues, the new iPhone releases, we ask the question 'does society have a problem working for women' & Keef teaches the podcast what a Phablet is. DJ Playboy, Miss Perfect Touch, & Keef present The Perfect Talk Podcast. Three unique perspectives on music, politics, movies, sports & popular culture. follow on instagram: @perfecttalkradio @meandmy_35 @pliccapeezy @ayonish

Show Notes – http://heytechiesshow.com/shows/hts110/ Michael, Bruce and The Guru discuss our rough start, Guru’s new Phablet, how he likes iOS 11, WatchOS, iOS 11 updates, Outlook issues, Amazon releases, Bruce’s watch, Apple settings for Bluetooth and wifi, FCC wants to turn on FM radio on iPhones, Sonic Drive-in, plus rumors and an overclocked stack.

Show Notes – http://heytechiesshow.com/shows/hts84/ ‎ Michael and The Guru welcome our guest Max Trescott, co-host of the Airplane Geeks podcast. We discuss his life as a flight instructor and the technology in small aircraft. Verizon’s unlimited data plan and T-Mobile’s answer, The Guru’s review of his cruise, Blackberry, Amazon dash button, YouTube hits a milestone, […]

The team are back, now only two-thirds London-based. Ewan provides in-depth coverage of whether it gets cold in Denmark in winter and we (eventually) turn our attention to the fall-out from Samsung’s disastrous Galaxy Note 7 launch. Is the Samsung brand terminally damaged, did they do the right thing and will consumers trust them again after months of negative press coverage?

The Gadget Detective joins Howard Hughes on Radio Berkshire to discuss the latest tech news. This week; Samsung recalls all of its Galaxy Note 7 phablets due to an exploding battery issue, plus Lenovo's new Yoga tablet computer which features an innovative keyboard that turns into a pressure sensitive pad. The Gadget of the Week is Auria Pro by WaveMachine Labs, a fully featured digital audio workstation for Apple iPads offering almost everything a musician could need, all at an affordable price. Fevzi can be heard on Radio Berkshire every Saturday around 7.40am for the latest tech news, plus you can follow him and ask advice on Twitter @gadgetdetective #Fevzi #Turkalp #FevziTurkalp #GadgetDetective #Gadget #Detective #Howard #Hughes #HowardHughes #BBC #Radio #Berkshire #GadgetoftheWeek #WaveMachine #Labs #Auria #Pro #DAW #Audio #Workstation #Music #MIDI #Compose #Sample #Apple #iPad #iOS #Samsung #Galaxy #Note7 #Note #7 #Battery #Explode #Explosion #Problem #Recall #Issue #Phone #Tablet #Phablet #Lenovo #Yoga #computer

Whistleblower sind für unsere Gesellschaft wichtig, werden aber häufig verfolgt und vom Staat nicht ausreichend geschützt. Deshalb haben wir den heise Tippgeber ins Leben gerufen: In c't uplink sprechen wir mit unserem Security-Experten Jürgen Schmidt darüber, wie die Enthüllungsplattform funktioniert und was man alles bedenken muss, damit nicht einmal der Netz-Admin oder der Internet-Provider mitbekommt, worüber man mit wem kommuniziert hat. Benjamin Kraft aus dem Hardware-Ressort hat HDMI-Sticks mit Windows 10 von Zotac und Intel getestet: Mit ihnen hat man einen Windows-Rechner im Taschenformat, den man einfach an Fernsehgeräte oder Displays anschließt – und die aktuelle Generation taugt inzwischen als Video-Player oder mobiler Büro-Computer. Die Kollegen aus dem Mobilressort hatten außerdem schon das Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in der Hand; Stefan Porteck beantwortet uns die Frage: Lohnt sich der Preis von mehr als 800 Euro für das Phablet mit Stift, Iris-Scanner und absoluter High-End-Hardware. Die c't 17/16 gibts am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink Falls Ihr uns Requisiten für den Uplink-Tisch schicken wollt, dann bitte an folgende Adresse: Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG c't uplink Karl-Wiechert-Allee 10 30625 Hannover

Whistleblower sind für unsere Gesellschaft wichtig, werden aber häufig verfolgt und vom Staat nicht ausreichend geschützt. Deshalb haben wir den heise Tippgeber ins Leben gerufen: In c't uplink sprechen wir mit unserem Security-Experten Jürgen Schmidt darüber, wie die Enthüllungsplattform funktioniert und was man alles bedenken muss, damit nicht einmal der Netz-Admin oder der Internet-Provider mitbekommt, worüber man mit wem kommuniziert hat. Benjamin Kraft aus dem Hardware-Ressort hat HDMI-Sticks mit Windows 10 von Zotac und Intel getestet: Mit ihnen hat man einen Windows-Rechner im Taschenformat, den man einfach an Fernsehgeräte oder Displays anschließt – und die aktuelle Generation taugt inzwischen als Video-Player oder mobiler Büro-Computer. Die Kollegen aus dem Mobilressort hatten außerdem schon das Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in der Hand; Stefan Porteck beantwortet uns die Frage: Lohnt sich der Preis von mehr als 800 Euro für das Phablet mit Stift, Iris-Scanner und absoluter High-End-Hardware. Die c't 17/16 gibts am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink Falls Ihr uns Requisiten für den Uplink-Tisch schicken wollt, dann bitte an folgende Adresse: Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG c't uplink Karl-Wiechert-Allee 10 30625 Hannover

Whistleblower sind für unsere Gesellschaft wichtig, werden aber häufig verfolgt und vom Staat nicht ausreichend geschützt. Deshalb haben wir den heise Tippgeber ins Leben gerufen: In c't uplink sprechen wir mit unserem Security-Experten Jürgen Schmidt darüber, wie die Enthüllungsplattform funktioniert und was man alles bedenken muss, damit nicht einmal der Netz-Admin oder der Internet-Provider mitbekommt, worüber man mit wem kommuniziert hat. Benjamin Kraft aus dem Hardware-Ressort hat HDMI-Sticks mit Windows 10 von Zotac und Intel getestet: Mit ihnen hat man einen Windows-Rechner im Taschenformat, den man einfach an Fernsehgeräte oder Displays anschließt – und die aktuelle Generation taugt inzwischen als Video-Player oder mobiler Büro-Computer. Die Kollegen aus dem Mobilressort hatten außerdem schon das Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in der Hand; Stefan Porteck beantwortet uns die Frage: Lohnt sich der Preis von mehr als 800 Euro für das Phablet mit Stift, Iris-Scanner und absoluter High-End-Hardware. Die c't 17/16 gibts am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink Falls Ihr uns Requisiten für den Uplink-Tisch schicken wollt, dann bitte an folgende Adresse: Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG c't uplink Karl-Wiechert-Allee 10 30625 Hannover

Neuland ist zurueck und das heftiger denn je. Die Sommerpause ist vorbei, Caschy und Palle haben den Weg fuer die Techpodcast-Zukunft neu gepflastert und ihr kommt damit in den Genuss von regelmaessigen Neuland-Ausgaben. Und damit legen wir nun los. In der 74. Ausgabe unterhalten wir uns nicht nur ueber Instagram Stories, sondern natuerlich auch ueber den Launch des neuen Samsung Galaxy Note7, dem wohl immer noch besten Phablet auf dem Markt. Dazu zerteilen wir auch noch die Kontroverse rund um die Olympiade in Rio und geben final Getty Images die Abfuhr, die sie verdient haben. Neuland in Sicht! Im Techpodcast aus Deutschland und Taiwan beleuchten Caschy und Palle die aktuellsten Entwicklungen auf dem Mobile, Gadget und IT-Markt. Übrigens, wenn ihr uns über Soundcloud oder iTunes anhoert, dann würden wir uns freuen wenn ihr dort unser Podcast liken und bewerten würdet. Kommentare sind natürlich auch willkommen!

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In der 67. Ausgabe des Neuland Podcast besprechen Caschy und Palle ausfuehrlich das neue Huawei Mate 8 und berichten von ihren Erfahrungen mit dem 6-inch Phablet. Dazu stehen noch die Quartalszahlen von Apple, Microsoft und Samsung auf dem Programm und werden entsprechend analysiert. Neben einer ganzen Ladung Smalltalk gibt es aber auch noch ein Paradebeispiel fuer eine "ich hab da was ganz tolles im Play Store gefunden" App. Android User duerfen sich also schon einmal freuen.

No doubt the word phablet has entered every day vocabulary among the general population. The larger screen allows not only for more precise on-screen navigation, but also provides an opportunity for more content and video to be viewed. On some phablets, such as Samsung's Galaxy Note 5, a stylus is included which can detect not only precise finger movement, but also pressure in the form of greater line thickness. For professionals, artists, and general consumers alike, this provides the ability to write with handwritten notes or drawings. A picture's worth a thousand words, or so they say. What about other stylus advantages? Samsung has built a special "hover" gesture, which allows swiping and various screen actions without touching the physical phone. This is similar but very, very different from Apple's 3D touch. The reason we make this comparison is simple: Some air gestures can preview content or interact with it in contextual ways. However, it is worth "noting" that 3D touch requires a firm press on the screen, while this is the opposite, whereby you lift the stylus half an inch above it. What about accessibility? Lucky for us, Samsung has built in Talkback support for the stylus. While not ideal, it allows you to swipe around the keyboard, tap items or keys, and see a more "3D" overview of the screen. With a physical stylus, your entire wrist and hand are involved in the touch exploration process. Drawing might also be useful for those who have some vision, as you can create large-print notes for yourself. Join as the question is explored: Is the Note 5's stylus capability worth it for the visually impaired?

No doubt the word phablet has entered every day vocabulary among the general population. The larger screen allows not only for more precise on-screen navigation, but also provides an opportunity for more content and video to be viewed. On some phablets, such as Samsung's Galaxy Note 5, a stylus is included which can detect not only precise finger movement, but also pressure in the form of greater line thickness. For professionals, artists, and general consumers alike, this provides the ability to write with handwritten notes or drawings. A picture's worth a thousand words, or so they say. What about other stylus advantages? Samsung has built a special "hover" gesture, which allows swiping and various screen actions without touching the physical phone. This is similar but very, very different from Apple's 3D touch. The reason we make this comparison is simple: Some air gestures can preview content or interact with it in contextual ways. However, it is worth "noting" that 3D touch requires a firm press on the screen, while this is the opposite, whereby you lift the stylus half an inch above it. What about accessibility? Lucky for us, Samsung has built in Talkback support for the stylus. While not ideal, it allows you to swipe around the keyboard, tap items or keys, and see a more "3D" overview of the screen. With a physical stylus, your entire wrist and hand are involved in the touch exploration process. Drawing might also be useful for those who have some vision, as you can create large-print notes for yourself. Join as the question is explored: Is the Note 5's stylus capability worth it for the visually impaired?

No doubt the word phablet has entered every day vocabulary among the general population. The larger screen allows not only for more precise on-screen navigation, but also provides an opportunity for more content and video to be viewed. On some phablets, such as Samsung's Galaxy Note 5, a stylus is included which can detect not only precise finger movement, but also pressure in the form of greater line thickness. For professionals, artists, and general consumers alike, this provides the ability to write with handwritten notes or drawings. A picture's worth a thousand words, or so they say. What about other stylus advantages? Samsung has built a special "hover" gesture, which allows swiping and various screen actions without touching the physical phone. This is similar but very, very different from Apple's 3D touch. The reason we make this comparison is simple: Some air gestures can preview content or interact with it in contextual ways. However, it is worth "noting" that 3D touch requires a firm press on the screen, while this is the opposite, whereby you lift the stylus half an inch above it. What about accessibility? Lucky for us, Samsung has built in Talkback support for the stylus. While not ideal, it allows you to swipe around the keyboard, tap items or keys, and see a more "3D" overview of the screen. With a physical stylus, your entire wrist and hand are involved in the touch exploration process. Drawing might also be useful for those who have some vision, as you can create large-print notes for yourself. Join as the question is explored: Is the Note 5's stylus capability worth it for the visually impaired?

Cheaper own your own cable boxes, Google’s new 4K format, Apple produces original content, disc are still a viable media,  Are we addicted to technology?  Andrea brings us the news from tech home builders. Host: George Tucker Guests: Andrea Mederios, Heather Sidorowicz, Chip Moody Record Date: 9/4/2015 Running Time: 55:49 Video:   Stories: Google 4K Phablet [...]

Cheaper own your own cable boxes, Google’s new 4K format, Apple produces original content, disc are still a viable media,  Are we addicted to technology?  Andrea brings us the news from tech home builders. Host: George Tucker Guests: Andrea Mederios, Heather Sidorowicz, Chip Moody Record Date: 9/4/2015 Running Time: 55:49 Video:   Stories: Google 4K Phablet [...]

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Today we're talking with Nick Disabato of Draft, a small interaction design consultancy in Chicago. His previous clients include Gravitytank, New Music USA, Chicago Magazine, The Wirecutter, and too many other attractive, intelligent people to count. We spent quite a bit of time talking about his work designing a delightful user experience for Cards Against Humanity. We discuss... Cards Against Humanity marketing strategy Split-testing Conversion rate optimization And more Links: Cards Against Humanity - http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/ Cadence & Slang - http://cadence.cc/ Draft: Revise - https://draft.nu/revise/ Nick's newsletter - http://eepurl.com/vqJgv Visual Website Optimizer - https://vwo.com/ PS: Be sure to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes and write a review. iTunes is all about reviews! Transcript Recording: This is the Unofficial Shopify Podcast with Kurt Elster and Paul Reda, your resources for growing your Shopify business, sponsored by Ethercycle. Kurt: Welcome to the Unofficial Shoplift Podcast. I'm your host, Kurt Elster and with me today is Nick Disabato from Draft. Nick, how are you doing? Nick: Doing fantastic. How are you, man? Kurt: I'm well. Where are you at? Nick: I live and work in Logan Square, a neighborhood in Chicago and have been here for the past seven years. I've been independent for the past 3-1/2. Kurt: That's good. I'm about right miles from you in Park Ridge. It's funny we're doing this over Skype but we're like a bus ride apart. Nick: We are. We're probably a short L ride apart. Kurt: Tell me, who's Nick D? Nick: Nick D is me as I exist on the Internet and I run a small design consultancy called Draft as you mentioned and we do a lot of things. I publish books. I do monthly A/B testing for people. I run the world's stupidest newsletter but what I think we're here to be talking about is my one-off interaction design product, just more typical client work, more consulting work. I've done it for a variety of e-commerce clients and solved a lot of really interesting problems for both mobile and desktop and I think about these sorts of things a lot. That's kind of ... Kurt: For the lay person, what's interaction design? Nick: Interaction design, it's the process of making something easier to use and it involves hacking out the layout and behavior of a product. That can range from prototyping something and running it by users to see how they enjoy using it or whether they're successful at completing goals within it. It can range from promoting certain design decisions and hacking out functionality. It can involve figuring out edge cases like if you type in a really long response that doesn't belong in a certain form field, what happens? If you click here, what happens? It's figuring out to choose your own adventure capacity of going through a technology product of any type. I've worked... Kurt: It sounds like you're a problem solver for your clients. Give me a good example of a problem you solved with interaction design. Nick: We'll talk about e-commerce stuff. One of my biggest clients over the past few years was a board game company called Cards Against Humanity. Kurt: I dearly love Cards Against Humanity. Tell us about it. Nick: For your audience, if you do not know Cards Against Humanity, it's similar to a card game called Apples to Apples where I'm a person judging a card and everybody else plays another card only it's usually quite inappropriate. You have weird poop jokes or [scathalogical 00:03:03] things. Kurt: The favorite combo I ever got, the winning combo I ever got out of Cards Against Humanity, I will never forget. It was "Santa gives the bad children genital piercings." That was genius. Nick: My personal favorite is 'What's the last thing Michael Jackson thought about before he died?' and somebody played Michael Jackson. Kurt: That one is layers on layers. Nick: Oh my God, I still think about it. It's amazing. I've worked with them to define all of the layout and behavior for their e-commerce system. They now have, in addition to Amazon, you can buy stuff directly through them. You go through and they run through Stripe. It's not through Shopify but it's entirely independent and entirely custom. What they wanted was something that worked pretty well on mobile and they wanted something that was a little more unconventional to fit their business's needs. Cards Against Humanity, for those of you who don't know, they're a relatively unconventional business just in terms of their tone and in the way that they carry themselves and the way that they deal with their customers. Kurt: That has totally differentiated and set them apart. Nick: Yes. I think a large part of Cards Against Humanity's success is their marketing and their outreach. They do a terrific job of both of those but they do a very ... Kurt: I've seen their marketing and it's amazing. They do one-off promo cards. I've got their House of Cards promo set that they did co-branding with Netflix. What kind of outreach do they do? Nick: They do a lot of ... They'll reply to people on Twitter. They'll follow along with people's activity. They'll pay attention to what people are talking about and they'll try and be a little bit proactive about it. As far as their site is concerned, their tone is very distinctive. It's ... Kurt: Absolutely, it irreverent. Nick: Yes, it's irreverent. It's a little bit standoffish, a little bit jerk but fun jerk. It's like [inaudible 00:05:09]. Kurt: Yeah. You love them for being mean to you. It's like Ed Debevic's.. Nick: [Crosstalk 00:05:10]. Yeah, it is like Ed Debevic's a little bit which is a diner in Chicago that ... Kurt: Right, [inaudible 00:05:15]. Nick: It's definitely one of those things where they own their voice and they know how to do it. If you go through the prompts on their Website, if you go to ... I believe it's store.cardsagainsthumanity.com. You can go there and buy stuff and they ask you what country you're from right away. We can go to a UX teardown of why that is but I'll give you the high level. They go to country [crosstalk 00:05:40] right away. Kurt: I'm already there. Nick: If you choose I live in the rest of the world like not US or Canada or UK or something like that, they'll be like, "Begone foul foreigner" or something like that." They'll just make fun of you. "Send us an e-mail for when Cards Against Humanity is available in your inferior country" or something like that. They're just totally blanked up. UI Copy was definitely an enormous component of it. It's part of why I'm getting to this because I wrote a fair amount of the UI copy that is still on there right now. Another thing that you'll see on the page if you go through it while you're listening to this podcast is you'll see a row of information at the top of it. You'll go and buy something, you'll hit Pay Now and you'll see country recipient, e-mail and shipping and what it says is ... It says USA. It'll try and geolocate you and then it'll say, "Not right." You can tap back to that and two things are happening there. You can edit your order as you're going and it reads the order back to you. One thing that you see in Shopify in particular or in e-commerce in general like Amazon or anything like that, it reads your order back to you before you hit Place Order. That's an extra click that you don't necessarily need because you could get this kind of inline feedback. There's no reason why you couldn't get inline feedback. I built the interaction model to fit that and people liked it. There were two things that people called out – the way that the feedback was being read back to you and the way that it was auto-correcting as it goes. If you type in your zip code, it autocorrects to your city and state and is usually accurate. That's pretty cool and it does have for both USPS and Canada Post. It requests little information from you, moves you through the process as fast as possible at the minimum of clicks. I wrote a book that called about interaction cycle, Cadence & Slang. One of the things I say is reduce the number of steps to complete a task. I tried to make this kind of exemplar of that principle by making it as efficient as humanly possible. The other thing that people talk about is when you actually go buy something, which I see you're tapping through that right now, Kurt, that I would ... Once you finish the transaction it says, "Now, go outside" and makes fun of you about the fact that you're on the Internet and it links ... Kurt: It shames you for your order. Nick: It already has your address and if you click "Now, go outside," it searches on Google Maps for parks near you. Kurt: [Crosstalk 00:08:07]. This is incredibly clever stuff. Nick: It's thinking like, okay, I'm on a computer and I'm refreshing it whenever an expansion comes out or I'm doing all these other things and it just wants ... It's like, "Oh, by the way, you're on the Internet. Now, you don't have to be on the Internet anymore. You gave us money. Just go away." That's most of the design decisions behind this. I feel like a lot of people just reinvent the wheel with e-commerce. They want to do something safe. One of the great things with Cards Against Humanity is they don't want safe. They don't care. They want to get the orders okay but if you're messing it up, it's not their fault. It's your fault for this particular organization. [Crosstalk 00:08:56]. Kurt: Yeah, like the whole ... the entire experience ... Like it's easy to use and it's great but at the same time the game ... It starts with a product. You've got this incredibly irreverent game and then that gets extended to the messaging and the copy and the positioning. Then amazingly where everyone else would have stopped, they moved it into the actual user interface. The interaction itself is irreverent. Nick: There are a couple of people at Cards that handle a goodly amount of the logistics in getting the cards printed and shipped and everything. To use a developer term, they are a full-stack operation. They deal with the printer. They deal with Amazon. They deal with the warehouse. They want to build a vertically-integrated system for [crosstalk 00:09:40]. Kurt: I was going to say that sounds like a vertical integration. Nick: They're a good enough business and are popular enough that they can get away with it. They could ... If I did that ... Kurt: It's a great product. People love it. It's a catch-22. People love it because of these irreverent decisions but at the same time, are they able to make those irreverent decisions because people love it? It's like where do you start with that? Nick: I would be putting words in their mouth but I suspect it's kind of a feedback loop. They make these decisions and they realize they're getting rewarded for it by having more business and so, they end up making more irreverent decisions in more irreverent ways. Kurt: Why, yes. You're right. It does. It rewards itself. Anyone could start trying this and if it doesn't work out, you shouldn't do it. Nick: Yeah. I run a large part of my design practice as A/B testing. You could build this and run half of your users through it and if your conversion rate drops, either try and tweak it or throw it away. That way you're not losing an insane amount of sales on your testing idea. You're vetting whether it works for you. I suspect at least certain conceits of these like auto-complete and providing this feedback. I don't see any personal reason why that couldn't exist in other e-commerce context. I really don't. Kurt: Yeah, absolutely. You mentioned split testing. Tell us briefly, what is split testing? Nick: It's essentially you have an idea and rather than fighting about it internally about whether it's a good idea, you let people decide and you're letting real customers decide. This can be anything. This can be a call to action button. This can be a headline. This can be a person on your homepage selling the thing. It can be whether a video autoplays or not. It can be any design decision you want and you have a control page which is your original page. You send that by 50% of your users and then the other goes to the other 50%, whatever you're varying and you're measuring success in sales, signups for your mailing lists, whatever have you. It can be anything that you want. Kurt: As long as it's a measurable goal. Nick: You have a goal, right. You can do this with multiple variations. Most of my A/B tests are in fact A-B-C-D-E tests where I'm vetting many different variations of something and many different permutations of something and testing it with real-life people. It reduces risk because you're running many variants. You're optimizing the page slowly and you're throwing away what doesn't work and learning what does work and where you want to be putting more of your efforts. Even a failure, which is a plurality of your tests are failures or inconclusive, you're still learning where you don't want to be putting your efforts, like you don't need to be fighting over that link, that sort of thing. I always try and frame it in a very positive way. Kurt: It's interesting. The way you brought it up is you don't have to fight about it internally. It's a great way to talk about it because in our design practice that's generally how I bring up the idea of split testing is when the client pushes back on something or they attribute some loss in sales to a change and I say, "Actually, we don't have to guess about it. We could split test it and know for certain." It's usually how I introduce that concept. Nick: Yes. Kurt: As soon as you say, "We can know for sure and we can know scientifically," then people become very interested in it. What's your favorite tool for split testing? Nick: I give all of my clients ... I have a monthly A/B testing tool or a service called Draft Revise where you pay me a certain amount every month and I run tests for you and write up reports and that's it. You never have to worry about the practice of doing this. I use something called Visual Website Optimizer. It shortens to VWO. You can go to vwo.com. For a few of my clients, I use something called Optimizely, if you go to optimizely.com. Both of those are terrific. They have very small differences at this point. It's like Canon and Nikon. They're just snipping at each other and it's making both of them much better. Kurt: I've used them. I've personally used VWO. I really liked it. I used the Google split testing tool. That thing's a nightmare. Nick: Yeah, it's changey. I would pay the money for V. If you have enough scale to get statistical validity out of the A/B tests which typically you need at least 3,000 or 4,000 [uniques 00:13:53 ] a month to be doing that for whatever goal you're measuring, usually it's more, you're probably making enough money that you can afford Visual Website Optimizer, no question or Optimizely. Don't do the free Google stuff. It just sucks. Kurt: The amount of time I wasted messing with that wasn't worth it. VWO is so much easier. Nick: Yeah, don't bother. Kurt: The support is really good. I'm not condemning Optimizely. I've literally just never used Optimizely. That's a good way to get into it for our listeners. If it's confusing or they don't want to deal with it, your service is great. I've seen the reports you run and I'm not even plugging it. It's just genuinely good stuff that you do. Nick: Thank you. It's one of those things where a lot of people don't know how to start and they don't know how to do it and I have two different offerings. One of them is a one-off like I give you a guide and I give you a lot of suggestions for what you can test and what you can change things to, things that I would change. You're getting a UX teardown and a write-up of how to put into practice but I find that a handful of those come back to me and they're like, "Can you just do this for us?" Kurt: Essentially, what you've said to them is like, "Here's a plan for immediate success based on my vast experience and you could do whatever you want with it." I imagine a lot of people are going to be, "All right, fine. You know what you're doing. You just take care of those for me." Nick: Yeah, and they're already used to paying me and I give them a discount on their first month. If they pay me $900 for Revise Express Report and then they sign up for a 2000-dollar plan for Draft Revise, you're paying only $1,100 for the first month which at that point you're not getting charged twice. You're able to hit the ground running. I signed up a Revise Express client recently for Draft Revise and it's been going well. We went from not having anything together to contract signed and A/B tests running on their site in three days because I already knew it. Kurt: That's good. Nick: I wrapped my head around it. It was great. Kurt: When you're wrapping your head around it, how do you approach optimizing a site? Nick: It depends on the site. Let's say it's like a typical SaaS business. I look at the things that I know changing them will yield a lot of fruit and that can be common elements to optimize like your headline or your call to action or testimonial quotes, stuff like that which is very optimizing 101 type stuff. Or I'd look at things that I see are clearly bad like if you have an e-mail list signup form and the button says Submit. Unless you are [crosstalk 00:16:39]. Kurt: I look for the stuff that just like, "This is painful. This goes against every best practice. Let's fix this first and get our baseline back to zero." Nick: Yeah. I break things into two categories. One of them is one-off design changes which are beyond the need for testing. Things like if you make your button Submit. Unless you're an S&M site, you have no business making your buttons Submit, all these other things. Then I also look at things and suggest "Let's test this because I'm not sure." The difference between those two is confidence. I'm still changing things. I'm changing elements on the page but I'm not fully confident that changing your headline to this one thing is going to speak to your customers effectively especially because I've been working with you for only three days if I'm doing these teardowns. It's very like intuition at that point. I will check everything within ... If you're a SaaS business, call your conversion funnel like your homepage to your pricing page to your signup page to your onboarding to all that and then you get converted from a trial into a paying customer eventually. There are a bunch of pages that you have to go through in that flow to actually figure that out. I try and vet all of those and figure out if I were building your site and figuring out your marketing page and trying to figure out a really good way to speak to people, would I do this? I bring in my experience working with dozens of SaaS businesses and e-commerce sites to bear on that and eight years of interaction design experience. That's often something that they can't get internally because I don't know any actual fulltime UX employees who've worked for as many individual clients as I have. Kurt: They couldn't possibly. Earlier you had mentioned to me the other day that you're working on something with Harper Reed. Nick: Yeah. I did it for six weeks. It was a one-off project with Harper Reed. For those who don't know, he elected the president at the beginning of ... starting at the beginning of last ... No, two years ago. It was 2012. Kurt: The way I view it is Harper Reed personally defeated Mitt Romney. Nick: His tech team certainly did. He built the team that ... It almost feels like that. If you read the teardowns of it, they're amazing but he has a startup now which is essentially a mobile e-commerce startup called Modest. It's at modest.com and first project that he did was a storefront for a toy and game manufacturer called [Choonimals 00:19:04], if you go to Choonimals Website. He's a friend of mine. He works and lives in Chicago. He works in Fulton Market. They had me come on and just be another pair of eyes on their UX. They already had a lot of interesting UX ideas there. I'm not going to take remote amount of credit for some of the most novel and fascinating parts of it but I agree with the conceit. A lot of the things were already coming together like scanning your credit card with the iPhone's camera is one of them and Uber does that. There's a JavaScript library called card.io that lets you do that where it just turns on your flashlight and lets you take a photo of your credit card and it scans your number in so you don't have to manually type it and reduce the error [inaudible 00:19:52]. He has a thing where you can buy stuff and it's basically buy with one touch and then if you ... You get a grace period where you could undo that. You can un-buy something and then ... Kurt: The easier you make something to buy, if people aren't used to that standard yet, I think there is a lot of that ... I wouldn't call it cognitive dissonance. Nick: I think you're just thrown off expectations-wise. There's a mismatch. Kurt: Yeah. Or it becomes too easy and suddenly, it's frightening. You have to have that grace period, that undo. Nick: I did not come up with these ideas to be clear. I helped refine them and offer my own ideas about them which is just like fit and finish. The idea of un-buying, you might tap something and it says Buy. It's very clear you're buying something but you don't even get an undo button in the app store if you buy something. You tap it on your iPhone. Kurt: Yeah. I bought a lot of silly things. I wish there was an undo button in the app store. Nick: I don't let myself check the app store while I'm drunk anymore because I just threw up and buy some 30-dollar application that's just ill-advised but this is like they're not going to ... It's a physical good usually. They're not going to ship it for another day at least or five hours if it's [overnighted 00:21:08] or something like that. At which point, you have a chance to take back that notion and edit your order. You barely get the chance to edit your order or merge orders on Amazon as it stands. Kurt: With Amazon, it's a scam. You could cancel an order while it's in progress but once you put cancel, it says, "We're going to try to cancel it" and it's like less than 50% of the time that it actually manages to cancel it. Nick: Right and if you're Prime, they probably already have it sent on a drone to you so you don't even know. It's one of those things where it just seems obvious that you should have an undo button when you're buying something. Kurt: Absolutely. You've got a lot of experience with this. Give me one tip for – obviously this is tough because it's general – one tip for an e-commerce store owner who's looking to grow the revenue. Nick: I'm going to drill down into this tip. You need to make it as easy for the person to buy the thing as possible and easy for them to back out of it and so, cutting down the number of steps. If you're asking for any extraneous information, if you are deliberately asking for both billing and shipping address, if you're splitting the person's name into three different fields, if you're not supporting auto-complete, those are all different forms of the same problem which is you're making the person enter more data than is necessary. Make the person input les data. Nobody likes to fill out a form. You don't want to feel like you're in a doctor's office buying a product. That's the one tip that I've got. Kurt: I guess it's pretty common with Shopify store owners. They want to do less work personally. They want like or go, "Can you make it ask them X, Y and Z thing?" and we'd say, "Sure, we could build out these product options for your products." Then when we do it, their conversion rate plummets and they're like, "Why did that happen?" Well, because you just made it really hard to buy from you. Nick: Yeah. Doing this auto-complete ... Going back to Cards Against Humanity, doing the auto-complete for your address and address validation and making it as fast as it is on that site is tremendously difficult. It is not easy programming to be putting in. Doing this focus is really hard but their sales bear out how they're doing. It justifies that decision. It almost says the amount of work that you put into the site and making it smarter, making the defaults easier and making it easier for the person, that's hard work but it directly connects to your conversion rate and if you're delighted about it ... I can't tell you how many positive twits happened when the first storefront came out that talked explicitly about the user experience and shared that out. It said, "Oh, you have to buy something." Who says "Oh, you have to buy something" about an e-commerce store? Kurt: You have to experience this. Nick: You have to experience getting sent to a park nearby you. That's very unexpected. Kurt: People are just ignoring the product itself. They'll just buy it for the sake of the purchasing experience. Nick: Right. Kurt: People don't think ... They would never think twice about someone making the interior of a retail store nice, making it easy to buy something there but as soon as it comes to e-commerce, then suddenly it's like the strange thing that no one wants to spend money on. Nick: It's funny because Apple's retail stores are beautiful and amazing and their UX is incredible. If you go in person, they swipe your card there in front of the computer and somebody walks the computer out to you and ... Kurt: Have you ever paid with cash in the Apple store? Nick: I have not. Kurt: It's same deal but the cash register is hidden inside one of the display tables. Just like the face of the table pops open. The cash box was in there the whole time. It's clearly on remote. They still use their iPhone and then the thing pops open. Nick: Right. Their UX is amazing but I bought an iPhone. I bought the new iPhone from the Apple store online the other day. Kurt: Did you go with the 6 or the 6-plus? Nick: I have 6. Kurt: You don't have monster gorilla paws is what you're telling me. Nick: No, I have normal human being hands and I don't need a Phablet. I have an iPad Mini. Anyway, I was going on it and I was on the Website, not the app just to be clear. I think the app is better but it was not fun. It sucked. It was really flunky and weird and it could be better. You're selling ... You're the biggest company in the world. You can fix that. Kurt: I noticed that they do one clever thing. You can choose multiple payment methods. I don't think I've seen that anywhere else. Nick: Amazon ... Kurt: If you were to max out your credit card and then finish up with a second credit card, they will let you do that. Nick: Or if you have one of those crappy gift cards that you get from the grocery store, like somebody gives you 100-dollar gift card and you have 18 cents left on it and you feel bad wasting that 18 cents, you could put that on the card. Kurt: You could do it. Nick: Right. That's edge [casey 00:25:58], feasible. Kurt: That's an argument I have with people is about edge cases where it's like, okay, we could fix this problem that one of 100 people have but what's that impact on the other 99 out of 100 people? I think Apple has walked themselves into that. Nick: Yeah. They can accommodate edge cases. I know that Amazon used to accommodate that sort of edge case and then they got rid of it for whatever reason. They probably saw that it wasn't diminishing returns or something but anyway. Kurt: That's a thing you could split test. Nick: Right, yeah. I'm sure Amazon does. Amazon A/B tests everything. I get bucketed into A/B tester of their pages all the time. I find it redesigns itself and I refresh it and it goes away [crosstalk 00:26:42]. Kurt: Or open an incognito window and it's a different site. Yeah, I've had that happen. Nick: Yeah. Kurt: If I wanted to learn more from you, the best way would be to do what? Nick: You should subscribe to my mailing list because it's funny. Kurt: I subscribe to it. I enjoy it, lots of good Chicago references in there. Nick: There are a lot of good Chicago ... Kurt: Like the hotdog story. Nick: There was a story ... It's a dog stand that's very popular here. It's closing this week. That is a very good way to get to know me as a person. If you want to know more about interaction design, I would go to cadence.cc which is my book, Cadence & Slang, and grab a copy. It is generally considered one of the more important texts on interaction design by people far more famous and important than me which is terrifying. Kurt: I have read it. It is genuinely good. Nick: Awesome, thank you. That's the best way to get to understand the kind of stuff that I'm talking about with e-commerce. It's applicable to any technological project but the ultimate goal is just to make things more efficient and pleasurable to use. Kurt: Fantastic. That's great. Thank you, Nick. Thank you for joining us and have a great day. Nick: Thank you so much. Take care.

Wayne has snuck back into the studio just long enough to do the show today between bands at Riot Fest. He regails us with his take on getting to watch a large selection of talented musicians and his observations of the people around him that watched the bands as well. Ken is celebrating still being a British citizen as Scotland has voted to stay a part of the United Kingdom. Happy Birthday to Ken's father with celebrations of dancing, magic, and tea. Wayne is admitting to going Apple Fan boi by ordering the new Apple Phablet 6 plus and is fearing the overall size of it. DON'T FOLLOW KEN's ADVICE ABOUT iWAVE!!! Ken and Kitten are working on scaring themselves silly with games and demos. Show Notes: http://media.vtwproductions.com/forum/index.php?topic=11459.0 Video Link: http://youtu.be/D0-B-_CQPa0

Minter Dialogue Episode #112 — This interview is with Roy Vella, digital expert and consultant, who is passionate about the convergence of mobile, online and financial services. mobile space, with a particular . With the burgeoning attention to the mobile world, we talk about the state of mobile, how companies should be approaching the mobile challenge and some great tips for teams looking at creating mobile-oriented initiatives. Plus we hear about Roy’s favorite mobile apps and sites. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

In this Indianapolis centric episode of Kind of Epic Show we talk to local legend and all around good guy, Rupert Boneham about Ruperts Kids. We talk to nationally syndicated radio host and fellow local podcasters The Off the Air Show in which we are podcast bombed by Colts Punter Pat McAfee And finally we speak with the inccredibly charming voice actress Ellspeth Eastman of Killer Instinct and Guns of Icarus. All recorded at this years Indy Pop Con. Before all that its been a week since our last Kind of Epic show and more than two weeks in real time so we talk about this years #E3 including the #Sony and #Nintendo press conferences. We also talk the horrible news of the Scoobie Doo reboot and TMNT movie still featuring Shredder and Splinter. All we can conclude is Shredder you got a face for podcasting and so do we. 

En este evento se reunirán los más influyentes en el campo de la tecnología para discutir las novedades que presentará el 2014. Se espera que las Phablet... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the team are talking 'phablets' - those odd hybrid devices that exist between phones and tablets. We never really believed they were a good thing and we certainly never believed they'd sell well but they are and they have... and we are slowly (grudgingly) coming 'round to the idea. SHOWNOTES & COMMENTS: http://361podcast.com/episodes/s06e03-absolutely-phablet-ulous ** Sponsored by O2 Refresh is the tariff which lets you get the latest phone whenever you want. **

Its Go-go-gadget review time again as we get our greedy little geek hands on the latest gadgets from Samsung. We do an in depth review of their new Phablet the “Note 3” and turn ourselves into Michael Knight (from Knightrider .. remember ?) as we slap on the worlds most advanced smart watch : The … Continue reading "kw705 : Reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Gear"

Sam and Ivan talk about: * Work-Life Balance / iPhone 5s / iPhone 5c / Phablets * Innovative Dicks and Assholes * Shutdown / Debt Limit

Gareth, Matt and Dan are here with another UK update on the mobile front. Featuring Gareth, Dan and Matt Direct DownloadiTunesDownload the iPhone AppDownload the Android AppRSS Feed Email us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk  Tel: 0208 123 3757 Show Notes Another Note required EE 4G Hits 100 Town Milestone LG confirms G Pad, Phablet, Smartwatch and flexible display Steve Ballmer stepping down Sky NOW TV Box Review Vodafone / O2 Switch on 4G Feel at Home Roaming by Three returns HTC Rumoured to be developing their own OSMore Apple iPhone 5C and 5S images surface… Tablets Ciao Xoom Listeners Garden Guys, I have purchased a few movies from Google Video on my HTC One. I can watch the films on my phone but I’d really like to watch on my large-screen TV. Any ideas how I could do this? I cannot use the YouTube app on Apple TV which would have been my prefered choice. Are there android equivalents to Apple TV? Jegg Silverson Bargain Basement Nexus 7 (16 GB)£199 Nexus 4 (16GB) £199 Samsung ATIV S £199.99 Archos 7 Inch Wi-Fi Gamepad £74.99 BlackBerry Q5 £229.95 BlackBerry Z10 £259.95 Email us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk  Tel: 0208 123 3757 Gareth Myles – @garethmyles Matt and Tracy Davis -   @tracyandmatt Dan Carter - @mobilemandan Mobile Tech Addicts Facebook Many thanks to The Stetz for the music Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcast RSS Feed for our weekly podcast Download the iPhone App

More than 200 million phablets (smart phone-tablets) will be sold in 2015, twice as many as last year. Larry Greenemeier reports

Report: Production of 9.7-inch iPad Displays Slows to a Crawl at Sharp; No Drop at LG or Samsung Report (Three Times Removed) Has Apple Working on a 4.8-inch Phablet to Be Released By June iPad-mini Shortages Persist While Full-Sized iPad Supply is Plentiful Barrons: Wells Fargo Analyst Sees Better Second-Half of 2013 in Store for Apple While UBS Analyst Looks to Apple’s “Next Big Thing” UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target from $700 to $650 Based on New CIRP Survey Silicon Valley Execs - Including Apple CEO Cook - to Answer Questions in No-Poaching Court Case Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad and wil.i.am to Present on Macworld/iWorld Opening Day Fred Armisen to Talk Apple Technology and Creativity at Macworld/iWorld 2013 on February 1