Tech IT Easy

For a week now, give or take, I’ve been getting daily email updates from XYDO.com. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a site that many people tweeted and blogged was the successor of Digg.com. It may be, but I actually think Twitter and Facebook are and we are leaving the era of one [...]

Positioning is a marketing concept that is expressed through verbal, numerical, and visual cues. As such, it is easily identifiable, if you know what to look for. But the fun is less so, if you try to do it yourself. Let me give an example of what positioning is. Last night, I’m waiting for a [...]

There’s a really, really interesting blog post that talks about robots a little bit. It’s by Paul Miller on IEEE Spectrum and draws a parallel between how the personal computing industry got started and the state of robot development today. Specifically, it talks about hardware hackers. If you want to dig even deeper, there’s another [...]

For the record, I include Twitter, Facebook, and certain other Internet activity into my categorization of blogging, because they all share the characteristic that I wish to write about today. It should come as no one’s surprise that I spend a fair amount online, whether it’s this bog, Twitter, or Facebook. All-together, I’d say I [...]

(Version Française) Knowledge worker: one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace. (Peter Drucker – 1959) A simple yet visionary definition which becomes all the more more relevant today as an ever increasing part of our happens in the so-called knowledge economy where goods and services can [...]

So Penelope Trunk wrote a book. I previously wrote about her here. A commentator on one of blog-posts asks: Penelope, I read your blog regularly. Is there anything in your new book that I wouldn’t have already gotten from your blog? Either way, I’ll probably buy it… but I was just curious. Posted by Kelly [...]

…Or how not to approach development. It’s busy in Vincentland, but I’m still determined to regularly update Tech IT Easy. Today, my question is: What determines the choice for a platform? Is it market, personal taste and talent, or the desire to create something that fits a certain paradigm? In the end, no matter how [...]

This post started with the wrong premise, that Facebook wasn’t providing enough stats to page administrators. Last night I received a mail from Facebook that outlined some brief stats from a page that I administer. It looked like this. At first I thought, nice thanks. Then I thought that what I was really missing were [...]

Best.app.on.my.iPhone. Period. So Instapaper 3 is out on iOS, which makes the app a whole lot more social and collaborative. What Instapaper does is that it allows you to save articles to it, after which it takes out all colours, (most) pictures, and side-bars, so you can focus on what really matters. If it wasn’t [...]

“What is Twitter?” People still keep asking me this, 5 years after Twitter was founded (I joined mid-2009). This “guide” will be my answer from now on. Just read this if you want my understanding of what Twitter is. So what is Twitter? Is it… …a celebrity medium? Charlie Sheen is the latest addition to [...]

I have nothing against Instagram, I SWEAR, I have nothing against Instagram. The only inconsistency… I have never used Instagram. This post is an attempt to find out why. Shawn Blanc pointed me to the article “Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom’s 30-Second Rule for App Success,” which, exactly like the title states, is about how you [...]

I sent off my V-moda headphone for repair. The address was somewhere in Los Angeles, California, and I live in the Netherlands. They checked it and sent me a replacement with no questions asked. The only problem? I sent them off on the 23rd of February and got them back yesterday, 15 days later. Even [...]

Briefly, as it’s an extremely busy week (but I am getting back into regular techiteasy-blogging, promised!) I’ve been looking for a syncable to-do list for a while. I’m a big BIG fan of SimpleNote, a syncable note-taking app that is free on your iOS device (with a premium service) and syncs with a number of [...]

I dig this album, else I wouldn’t review it, both in the context of riding the crap out my bike to make the train this morning, and while starting to write this post on SimpleNote at the station (In English: it works in a sports & and a creative context). There’s a lot of loops [...]

At this moment, I haven’t read a single positive thing about this new feature on the free iPhone Twitter app. The only tweet that is mildly realistic, is Anyl Dash’s: “Geeks complaining about trends bar on Twittter’s iPhone app seem to think their Twitter use case is the most common one. I suspect it’s not.” [...]