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• The Hall 1 Typewriter

  By Shaun on March 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Thomas Hall, a Brooklyn engineer, invented this first index typewriter. A typewriter with no keyboard that requires one to use a selector (the black handle) to choose the characters when typing. It is housed in a handsome mahogany case with… Read More ›

• They Ruined The App

  By Shaun on March 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The app used to be perfect. It had the old icons! The old interface! The old font! Also, it had no ads besides that big one. But now the app is different and ruined, and I’m never going to use… Read More ›

• Lost In Mobile 2019 Survey Results

  By Shaun on March 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  iOS dominates which is expected considering the content on LIM. Besides Android no other mobile OS survives… Again, this is kind of expected given the content although I am surprised that macOS gets almost 50%. Fairly certain that if I… Read More ›

• Sometimes Apple deserves a little credit

  By Shaun on March 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have teamed up to appeal a controversial ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that, if it goes through, would increase payouts to songwriters by 44%, Variety has learned… …The four companies all filed with… Read More ›

• The Fox News White House

  By Shaun on March 8, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Hannity was treated in Texas like a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years… Read More ›

• iPhone crushes Androids on resale value

  By Shaun on March 8, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Consider two signature phones from last year. The iPhone X debuted costing $999, but was still worth $690 nine months later, according to device reseller BankMyCell. That’s a drop of just 30.93 percent. Samsung’s Galaxy S9 cost $720 but was… Read More ›

• Images of Intersecting Shockwaves From Two Supersonic Jets

  By Shaun on March 8, 2019 • ( 0 )

  An air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets. The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle… Read More ›

• The Tropical Dial Is a Flaw

  By Shaun on March 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  And with a tropical dial, something sincerely has gone wrong: around the middle of the last century, Rolex primed its dials with a finish that was supposed to protect the watches from sun damage. Bizarrely, it had the exact opposite… Read More ›

• Lost In Mobile 2019 survey

  By Shaun on March 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  This survey will close on 8th March and the results will be published over the weekend. A surprising number of respondents so far and some surpassing results.

• A redesigned London Tube and Rail Map

  By Shaun on March 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Visual hierarchy implemented with the lines, tube lines (most frequent) in bold solid colour, other TFL services (less frequent) in a pastel shade with darker border, National Rail services (least frequent) as hollow lines. This draws the attention of the… Read More ›

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