The notion that people’s attention span is shorter when reading on the Web is well known. The number of possible distractions and other things that you could be doing right now is far greater than if you were reading a book on a secluded beach. Catering for short attention spans Because people are seemingly in [...]
Travel guides: big and heavy. When you go on holiday, there’s nothing better than having a good travel guide book. The best ones like Lonely Planet and Rough Guides provide accurate and in-depth information about the places you’re at or going to, with maps, pictures and so on. This is especially useful when you don’t [...]
Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch is sitting very comfortably after today’s announcements. Apple revealed its software developer kit (SDK) and showed off demos of enterprise software and videogames which had been built in only two weeks. There are two sides to this – the developers’ and the users’ – but both perspectives look [...]
As you may know, I’m quite an Apple fan and my interest in the Californian company began a few years ago when I got a second generation 10GB iPod. I then replaced this with a 60GB iPod Photo and added a MacBook Pro to my collection 18 months ago to complete ‘the switch’. When the [...]