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Amazing Rant on the Future by ex Apple UI designer

In our last post on “Why cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote?”, our simple message was to  dump on certain media bombast projecting the future as a mere extension of current trends. We chose to share a video on Microsoft Vision 2019 that impressed in “Minority Report” style as an evolutionary leap into the future, good enough to shame the extrapolating bots.

Alas, things have prompted a relook on our choice since then. Not the message but just the particular example.

We happened to stumble upon an absolutely BRILLIANT, enlightening curve ball of a post by an ex-Apple UI wiz Bret Victor. … Read the rest

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Avoid Waiting for Automatic Updates – Update Your Zukmo Browser Button Instantly!

Every new release opens an exciting new chapter for our users, improving their ability to store and manage information with Zukmo. With the rapid release of so many new features and improvements, however, we sometimes find ourselves in a bit of a conundrum with our constantly updated browser buttons.

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari go through a rigorous review process to ensure that each update we submit is clean, free of issues, and offers a streamlined, integrated experience with their browser. This, of course, takes time on their end, and until they complete the process … Read the rest

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The last place you’d expect to see an Apple logo

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Check out the LiveMesh (a Microsoft service) site.

Guess who’s logo prominently features in the homepage?

Apple.

Yes, Apple!

And an Apple Mac, at that. Can’t see it clearly in the screenshot below?

Go ahead, check out the Live Mesh site.

I see this as another example of Microsoft’s new ‘approach’ that we spoke about earlier. Of course, they’re doing it to highlight the cross platform sync capabilities of their application – but a few years ago, you’d have expected Microsoft to pretend that a Mac didn’t even merit ‘consideration’ for their sync application.

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