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Hunch Blog | Mac vs PC People: Personality Traits

This is a extract of a post on the Hunch Blog. Hunch is a service that uses questions and quizzes to find out what people should do. User generated quizzes are made and the rest of the process is automated. Example of questions are: "Should I upgrade to the iPhone 3GS?" (Made by me) "What type of car should I buy?" and more like that. They use sample questions that appear on the homepage to generate information on people, kind of like a survey. This is an outcome of that. I would recommend everyone to start using Hunch.


There are a lot of fun details and images in the full 13 page report, which is also available in a downloadable pdf version.  And once again, we had an illustrator distill all this down to make the following 2 pictures roughly worth the report’s 3,000 words.

PC People are down-to-earth team players who enjoy sports, practical design, and mainstream media

PC People are down-to-earth team players who enjoy sports, practical design, and mainstream media

Mac People trend towards retro design, bold colors, an appreciation for objects which express their individual identity, and "media with a message"

Mac People trend towards retro design, bold colors, an appreciation for objects which express their individual identity, and "media with a message"

Again, read the full report here or download it here.  (and if you haven’t already, also check out the report we issued a few weeks ago entitled How Food Preferences vary by Political Ideology.

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As you can see PC people are logical and straight forward, while Mac users are crazy and artistic.

Posted December 7, 2009
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iPhone Flow Chart

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Posted December 5, 2009
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Family Guy Windows 7 || Fixed

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There are more, but this is the best one.

Posted December 4, 2009
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Mininova goes Legit

Mininova the torrent website has made a huge change and become a legit file sharing service. By using its content distribution service copyright owners can upload there media and share it with the world. I think they are doing this to "comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August."

 

I am against piracy and think that this and Pirate Bay losing traction (and its tracker) is good news for legal doers (such as me). If only the music companies can get something good started.

 

There is a link to the mininova blog, which is included below:

http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2009/11/26/mininova-limits-its-activities-to-content-distribution-service/

Filed under  //   By Me   Torrent  
Posted December 3, 2009
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Want to Buy a Dual-Screen Laptop? Now You Can

Remember that snazzy dual-screen laptop prototype from Kohjinsha from about a month ago? While we still can’t decide if it’s a productivity boost or an unnecessary toy, things have gotten a bit more serious, because now you can actually buy it.

Looking at the price and the specifications, it actually sounds like a very good deal. The device sports two 10.1-inch TFT displays with a combined resolution of 2048×600 pixels; it’s powered by a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo, 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3200, a 160 GB hard disk, and it all weighs 4.09 pounds. If you don’t mind having Linuxlinuxlinux

as the operating system (you can have it with Windows 7 if you add 58 bucks to the price), the price is about $1,110, which is very cool for a novelty gadget like this.

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Comes with Linux, YEAH!!!!!!

Hopefully it's Ubuntu.

Posted December 3, 2009
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Apple Rejected Your App? There’s a Site For That

Apple Rejected Your App? There’s a Site For That

We’ve written on numerous occasions about Apple’s app approval policy, which has so far been inconsistent, often unfair and sometimes just plain strange.


If you need more proof that many developers are unhappy with the way Apple is treating them, check out a new site called Apple Rejected Me, where everyone can come and vent about their (unjustly) rejected iPhone app.


Of course, the entries on the site being anonymous doesn’t exactly make it a good source of reliable information; furthermore, most of the entries are jokes. From the site:


“I made a time machine app, but apparently Flux_Capacitor is a private API. ARM”


“I made an app that caused AT&T to drop a call randomly based on a 50/50 chance. Because of duplicate functionality, ARM.”


“I tried to “Think Different” but ARM.”


However, the sheer fact that such a site exists shows that something is wrong in Apple’s app approval policy, and that it needs to be fixed, fast.


arm

Posted November 30, 2009
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Un-Google Yourself - Wired How-To Wiki

The mighty search engine has allowed us to do so many things. “Mighty” is the operative word, as these same search engines (usually the one that starts with a "G" and ends with an "oogle") can also curse us all. If you think about it, any schmuck can find out more about you than you’d like by typing only your first and last name.

Different folks certainly have different tolerance levels for their online persona and how public they want it to be, but thankfully, there are tips to ensure that your boss, your ex, or your mildly interested former friends can keep tabs on you on your terms.

Unfortunately, pleas to remove content on Google fall on deaf, mechanical Google ears. The best and easiest way to remove content from Google (and other search engines in the process) is to remove the content from the internet. This guide will show you how to make the best of the content that is there or how to remove it entirely.

This article is a wiki. Contribute to its ongoing quest to better itself by logging in and editing this page.

Contents

  • 1 Google Yourself
  • 2 The Entourage
  • 3 Picasaweb, Flickr and other image searches
  • 4 Facebook and LinkedIn
  • 5 Adding Robots.txt to your web host
  • 6 In the Future
via howto.wired.com

 

Filed under  //   Google  
Posted November 30, 2009
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Lucid Lynx Timeline Picture

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Can't Wait!!!!!!

Filed under  //   Ubuntu  
Posted November 29, 2009
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