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		<title>How To Improve Touch Screen Keyboard Functionality Of iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oleksi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was playing the other day with new Samsung cell phone my friend got from AT&#38;T. Comparing to iPhone it was a little lame. But I really liked one feature of this Samsung cellphone that iPhone currently doesn’t have:
When you type on touch screen keyboard there is a vibrating response on when you hit the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-80" title="iphone-keyboard" src="http://www.oleksi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/iphone-keyboard.jpg" alt="iphone-keyboard" width="227" height="238" />I was playing the other day with new Samsung cell phone my friend got from AT&amp;T. Comparing to iPhone it was a little lame. But I really liked one feature of this Samsung cellphone that iPhone currently doesn’t have:</p>
<p>When you type on touch screen keyboard there is a <strong>vibrating response</strong> on when you hit the key right. I.e. if you hit somewhere in between keys you won’t get as much vibration as you get if you hit the key right. This vibrating response in some way <strong>mimics </strong>the actual key press experience. So this is something that <strong>Apple should definitely consider</strong> for future releases.</p>
<p>Looking forward in the future, let’s say 5 years from now, I think that touch screen keyboards will respond with vibration at the exact point where fingertip hits. This will mimic almost identically the experience that we have when typing real keyboard key.</p>
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		<title>Don’t Use Dark Backgrounds For Printable Content!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oleksi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people share their content in formats that have high probability of being printed (e.g. PDF Documents) they should not use dark backgrounds. Otherwise it will waste people’s printer ink and cause frustration.
The first time I’ve noticed this was when my friend asked me to print a catalog of vanities she found online. The catalog [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people share their content in formats that have high probability of being printed (e.g. PDF Documents) they <strong>should not use dark backgrounds</strong>. Otherwise it will waste people’s printer ink and cause frustration.</p>
<p>The first time I’ve noticed this was when my friend asked me to print a catalog of vanities she found online. The catalog could be downloaded  in PDF format and all vanities pictures were on black background. So after printing about 10 of them, I’ve noticed that black ink level in my printer has significantly decreased (about 30%).</p>
<p>Another example is <a href="http://www.shoemoneyx.com/">ShoeMoney Xtreme Internet Marketing Guide</a>. Every week <a href="http://www.shoemoney.com">ShoeMoney</a> publishes his excellent guide on Internet Marketing in PDF format. I enjoy reading it in a train so I print it every time. But the 1st page is mostly black so I have to skip it every time I print. Of course it’s a little inconvenience but still bothers me.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.oleksi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shoemoneyxtreme.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="shoemoney-xtreme" src="http://www.oleksi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shoemoneyxtreme-thumb.png" border="0" alt="shoemoney-xtreme" width="241" height="244" /></a></p>
<p>So, think twice before you decide to use dark backgrounds on printable content. It annoys me because it wastes too much of my printer’s black ink. Does this annoy anyone else or it’s just me?</p>
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		<title>One Thing I Don&#8217;t Like About TweetDeck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oleksi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thankful to TweetDeck for the recent changes they made that allow synchronizing groups between multiple computers and devices. Even more thankful for developing iPhone client app. But one thing really annoys me about Tweetdeck.
It shows me only limited number of tweets for certain time period. This problem exists in both TweetDeck desktop and iPhone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-31 alignright" title="tweet_deck" src="http://www.oleksi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tweet_deck.png" alt="tweet_deck" width="128" height="128" />I&#8217;m thankful to <a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a> for the recent changes they made that allow synchronizing groups between multiple computers and devices. Even more thankful for developing iPhone client app. But<strong> one thing really annoys me about Tweetdeck</strong>.</p>
<p>It shows me only <strong>limited number of tweets for certain time period</strong>. This problem exists in both TweetDeck desktop and iPhone clients. So when I run TweetDeck on my iPhone it shows me N amount of tweets for the last X minutes for every group. I don&#8217;t know what X minutes is but I know it exists. The result is &#8211; <strong>I&#8217;m missing tweets</strong>!</p>
<p>This limitation could be related to limitations of Twitter API. In this case we should blame Twitter. Anyway, no matter who is guilty they should fix this so people can <strong>enjoy the whole power of <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a></strong>.</p>
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