3 posts and columns on Life Magazine

Flipboard Caves to User Demand; Adds RSS Feeds (And Flickr and Web Previews)

in Social on December 15, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

Flipboard, the social content display application for the iPad, is releasing an update tonight that adds users’ No. 1 most-requested feature: RSS feeds.

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“People who work with computers–especially those being exposed to a machine for the first time–can become quite entranced…finding in the computer a kind of alter ego. ‘Sometimes programmers just won’t go home, take a bath or anything,’ reports a computer man who has got over it himself. ‘They’re like a kid falling in love with a hot rod. They’ll sit there working with their newfound “friend” 20 hours a day, just watching the lights and drinking coffee. After a while they get to looking pale and unhealthy. They sit there fascinated and just forget to eat.’”

– Excerpt from “How the Computer Gets the Answer,” Life Magazine, October 27, 1967

Creating ‘Moments’ of Your Life

in The Mossberg Solution on June 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm PT

ThisMoment — a free software program that artistically assembles digital content — will give your moments a polished look that makes you proud to share, writes Katherine Boehret.
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