Global by Design

I’m fairly certain that I’m not using the iPhone Chinese IME in the way it was intended.

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Via Blogos, I was fascinated to read that the new Mac Snow Leopard OS features a Chinese input method editor (IME) that allows users to input characters via track pad.
Here’s a video of it in action (with some rather odd musical accompaniment):

What’s particularly interesting is that this IME began on the iPhone.
Here is a screen [...]

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For those of you who enjoyed the Country Codes of the World map, I have created ccTLD wallpapers for your computer.

Daniel Halloran of Marina del Rey, CA, was kind enough to share a view of his global workstation:

You can download the images here.
PS: I also created wallpaper for the iPhone, available here.

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It doesn’t have backlighting. It doesn’t natively support PDFs. And it’s not cheap.
And yet I still ended up getting the Kindle.
It’s thinner than I expected and I really get a kick of how it never is “off” in the conventional sense. When you turn the device off you typically get an illustration of a famous [...]

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I’m not very patient with games. Which is probably why I’m not very good.
My brother has concocted a tile puzzle game for the iPhone, shown below, that I still haven’t figured out — even at the easiest setting.
Maybe you’ll have better luck than I’ve had. The good news is that Chris has made it available [...]

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Apple today announced the iPhone 3G — a tri-band phone that will operate in most countries around the world. So it’s no surprise that Apple wants to sell the iPhone in as many of these countries as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, Apple supports a consistent design across its many country Web sites. So when it came [...]

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I realize I’m a bit obsessed with country codes. It’s a sickness, I know.
After I created the Country Codes of the World map, I began looking at other platforms for the design. And since I own an iPhone, I couldn’t resist creating a custom wallpaper for it.
Here are two ccTLD wallpapers for the iPhone.

If you’d [...]

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