http://www.vijiasingam.com by shiren vijiasingam Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:02:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en C'mon RIM, get it together with those sound profiles already. The blackberry UI is a marvel in user experience. No unnecessary menus, minimalist options, keyboard HFE (human factors engineering) that's just top-notch. Yet they fall short in one of the critical areas of the device. Notifications. Here's what your users are ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/06/18/we-want-control-of-how-our-phone-rings/ As a non-NYC living commuter, do I get a monthly unlimited or pay-per-ride Subway ticket? That's a question that perplexed me for a bit, until I decided to solve it once and for all. This calculator is designed to determine if your commuting patterns would be better served with a NYC ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/03/07/monthly-or-pay-per-ride-which-is-cheaper/ In part 1 of my review, I talked about some of the form factor of the Kindle 2. But all said and done, the proof is in the eating, or in this case reading - oodles and oodles of reading. To best illustrate how the most mission-critical part of the ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/16/a-rekindled-interest-redux-part-2/ As I prepare for my shift from one television service provider to another, a conundrum presented itself. All these shows that I routinely watch, but more importantly record - I'm going to have to manually schedule those recordings again. Now I guess that would be ok if it was an infrequent ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/13/dvr-recording-portability/ Happy birthday Facebook. You really shouldn't have thrown us such a UI changing party. No really. The fine folks at Facebook have met yet another calibration to the profile page. Which has caused feed-issues, stress-anxiety disorder and other maladies. It seems to have not been as thoroughly tested and communicated as ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/12/the-facebook-ui-approach/ Could a bad meal really get in the way of Google's plans for world domination? While Google has taken on an ambitious project to bring high-speed access to the masses, the smudge may be on them for not cleaning up the search results on their brilliant sewer-system based high speed. In fact ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/11/google-high-speed-snafu/ This past winter, I got a Kindle 2. I had my eye one for a while, and having compared the available options (including the Nook by B&N and Sony's selection as well as some other cloned varieties), I took the plunge. With the recent iPad release, and the unfair comparisons or ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/09/a-rekindled-interest-redux-part-1/ Too many former big-advertising-turned-digital have a lot of the old team structures in place. But lately, even the up and comer digital agencies have assimilated similar org charts. I'm speaking specifically about the role project management plays in the success of a digital campaign. All to often, the emphasis is ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/02/03/the-value-of-a-good-pm/ Born out of the need to create self shutting-off outlet for appliances that generate heat (e.g. curling iron or space heater), I tied a power outlet to a timer switch. But it raised the question, shouldn't all heat generating devices be set to turn off at a fixed interval. Say and ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/01/21/auto-off-heating-devices/ Wouldn't it be great if you could turn off the water while soaping up in the shower and turn it back on and not have to brace for cold or hot as the mixers re-blend the water? More people would turn the water off while soaping and collectively contribute a ... http://www.vijiasingam.com/2010/01/19/temperature-sensing-bathroom-fixtures/