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iPhone Tip: Enable Caps Lock

Here’s a quick tip for all of you iPhone users:

Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable Caps Lock

Now, when you quickly tap the Shift key twice on the keyboard, it will turn blue and become a Caps Lock!
Why wasn’t this enabled by default? I have tried, on numerous occasions, to figure out how to enable [...]

Smart Dust Leads to Smart Parking

It’s always cool to see presentations from CHI (and related conferences) end up in commercial products. At the time they are presented, they usually seem far-fetched or appear to have no real-world application (but, of course, we need crazy ideas and unconstrained thinking).
Smart Dust (CHI 2002) is being used commercially by a company called Streetline [...]

Little ditty, about TomTom and Garmin

Like it or not, devices are converging. With phones like the Motorola MotoZine ZN5, we are finally seeing a promising convergence of point-and-shoot cameras with mobile phones. Phones like the Nokia N95, BlackBerry, and HTC Touch are some of the first convergent phones capable of many things like GPS, Email, and Web browsing. However, the [...]