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  1. Is Google Taking Us Back to High School?

    April 05, 2010 9:20 am by Laura Scott in
    Comments: 4 comments

    I remember high school. The socialites — the "soshes" or soc's or however you would spell the nickname (I never learned) — were the in crowd. The cheerleaders, the football players, the glamorous crowd who looked down on the rest of us. Something like Heathers, only moreso and without the violence. When it came to who mattered in school, they were the arbiters.  Read more

  2. The Women of Drupal: an Ada Lovelace Day Appreciation

    March 24, 2010 3:05 pm by Laura Scott in Tech
    Comments: 4 comments

    On this Ada Lovelace Day, I wracked my brain for someone to write about, and came up blank — not because I couldn't think of anyone, but because I can't pick out the one woman in technology or science who's exceptional in some way, because there are so many. So I'm writing about a group of women who who mostly don't know each other but are united by a project that's dear to them, and to me: Drupal. Meet the Drupalchix  Read more

  3. The iPad Competes Against ... Nothing. And I Think It Will Do Well.

    February 19, 2010 11:00 am by Laura Scott in Gadgets
    Comments: 2 comments

    Once I got over the ridiculous name —- and thank you, HuffPo, for sharing the Mad TV sketch that long predates the iPad announcement —- I started to see how the new Apple iPad fits in the current market. It doesn't. That's right, it doesn't. And I predict it's going to be a pretty big success, too.  Read more

  4. From iPhone to Droid, Part 1: Top Free Droid Apps to Ease the Transition

    January 19, 2010 12:00 pm by Laura Scott in Smart Phones
    Comments: 2 comments

    I did it. After months of bitching out loud to my friends and colleagues, tweeting about it and blogging it, I dropped AT&T (and thus the iPhone) and got back on Verizon with the Motorola Droid. I thought it would be a rough transition, but it turned out to be not so bad. In fact, the Droid is a pretty slick device. But, like any "smart" tech these days, it's not truly yours until you've customized it, put your mark on it. And on the Droid, like the iPhone, that starts with the apps.  Read more

  5. Say Hello to the Open Source Decade

    December 27, 2009 7:05 pm by Laura Scott in Software
    Comments: 1 comment

    Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won't know what "open source" is. This isn't because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you're already in the know, there's no real reason you will have noticed it. But open source is here, and it's growing. Linux maximus  Read more

  6. Note to Smartphone Makers: We Still Need to Be Able to Call People

    December 13, 2009 9:49 pm by Laura Scott in Smart Phones
    Comments: 4 comments

    It's a simple question, really. What is your phone for? Making calls, or checking email/browsing the web/using apps/playing games/updating Facebook/posting to Twitter...? Of course, your smartphone should do it all, right? But what if you had to choose? I am ready to retire my iPhone. I love it to death. I check my email. I have apps that sync with my desktop. I have games that lull me to sleep. (Because that's what games are good for, right?) I check the weather. Read headlines. Set an alarm to wake up. Find out where the heck I am on a map.  Read more

  7. Just hang up and drive!

    November 22, 2009 7:23 pm by Laura Scott in Smart Phones
    Comments: 4 comments

    That's right, hang up the damn phone! You're hurtling in 2 tons of machine down the street, weaving in and out of your lane, slowing down, speeding up, cutting people off. And you, backing out of your driveway, cutting me off (and fortunately not running over a child): I'm sorry, but I just don't get what is so damned important than you have to be yakking on the phone right after you got into your car. Couldn't you make the call, then drive? Oh, you weren't talking, you were texting? What are you, stupid? You're a hazard. A menace!  Read more

  8. WhiteHouse.gov goes Drupal: can open source lead to open government?

    October 25, 2009 3:22 pm by Laura Scott in Software
    Comments: 1 comment

    The news had Twitter abuzz yesterday. The official White House site has migrated from a proprietary software to open source Drupal. "We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site," White House new media director Macon Phillips told The Associated Press hours before the new site went live on Saturday. "This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it....  Read more

  9. Previewing Google Wave and Twitter Lists

    October 18, 2009 3:35 pm by Laura Scott in Social Networking
    Comments: 3 comments

    One of the wisdoms in web application development is "Release early and often." Google and Twitter have both released software "tests" to select hundreds of thousands of users, both with the idea that there will be problems, but let people try them out, and then improve the software iteratively, based upon real-life user experience. This is my first blush impression of these previews I've been privileged to explore this week. Get on my Wave!  Read more

  10. Productivity and design Mac apps I use every week (or thereabouts) ... and apps I don't

    September 27, 2009 9:04 pm by Laura Scott in Software
    Comments: 8 comments

    It's pretty safe to say I spend 12 hours or so a day on my Mac — or a Mac. So I thought I'd document, if not the what of the check I'm doing, then the how. Here they are. I tried to break them down by category, because nobody can really use a laundry list of 20 or 50 or 100 things presented in a blog post, just laid out there as if it were helpful. Excuse me for a side rant:  Read more

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Laura Scott
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I'm a designer with a geeky tech compusion. I'm Creative Director and Co-Founder of PINGV Creative, which specializes in creative strategy and interaction design for Drupal websites. I blog there, as well as on rare pattern. My photoblog, scattered sunshine, has long been neglected. I Twitter as lauras.

 

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