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About amol

Founder, builder, philosopher.

Pogue demolishes Leap. Breathtaking

From The New York Times: STATE OF THE ART: No Keyboard, and Now No Touch Screen Either The Leap Motion Controller promises to let you control your computer with hand motions, and the hardware does that, but its software is

Pogue demolishes Leap. Breathtaking

From The New York Times: STATE OF THE ART: No Keyboard, and Now No Touch Screen Either The Leap Motion Controller promises to let you control your computer with hand motions, and the hardware does that, but its software is

The distracted UI state

Happens to me often: mid-emailing on iphone I move the phone from rosary position (flat between two hands) to grip hold (like holding a baguette). Why? I am distracted for a sec and need to deal with something in meatspace.

The distracted UI state

Happens to me often: mid-emailing on iphone I move the phone from rosary position (flat between two hands) to grip hold (like holding a baguette). Why? I am distracted for a sec and need to deal with something in meatspace.

The invited-guest user

Here is something that happens on the web every day: you get a link, you click it, and you have to create a user or login. Why is that? “Because sites need to know who you are” you are thinking

The invited-guest user

Here is something that happens on the web every day: you get a link, you click it, and you have to create a user or login. Why is that? “Because sites need to know who you are” you are thinking

My email world

Great app and visualizations from Immersion at Media Lab. Trailing great startups like Mailstrom.co in other ways. But here are some stats. (I’m on track to read/write 2x the emails this year vs LAST YEAR)

My email world

Great app and visualizations from Immersion at Media Lab. Trailing great startups like Mailstrom.co in other ways. But here are some stats. (I’m on track to read/write 2x the emails this year vs LAST YEAR)

Some complaints about Outlook.com

Hurray Microsoft! You made some gutsy moves with Hotmail. Well done. The first and biggest webmail platform still exists. And doesn’t the world need a rival to Gmail? You cannot say that Gmail is sitting pretty. I wish you could.

Some complaints about Outlook.com

Hurray Microsoft! You made some gutsy moves with Hotmail. Well done. The first and biggest webmail platform still exists. And doesn’t the world need a rival to Gmail? You cannot say that Gmail is sitting pretty. I wish you could.

Au revoir Thinkpad

I loved you once.

Au revoir Thinkpad

I loved you once.

Inbox Awesome Thursday

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Inbox Awesome Thursday

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