Imagineer, Photographer, would-be Rock-Star and Early Adopter.
Hello. I'm involved in many things creative and have a regular habit of challenging anything inefficient and ineffective to find a better way. If that makes sense to you, you can find out more about me.
For photography, artwork and digital paintings, see my brushstrok.es sub-section.
Love Bumblebees? Care about the World's food supply? Check out my bumbleebee conservation project.
For all the other things, just wander round the links on this page.
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blackberry, humour, iphone in humour Friday, May 29, 2009 at 10:36PM Tweet
A bunch of not-so-endearing nicknames I have for the hideous horrendous mobile computing device I have been given for work - otherwise known as a blackberry. I would never ever buy one of these terrible things.
They are very popular in business - and sadly that usually means the people who buy them are not the people who use them. Sadly this means that usability appears to have taken a back seat. Such simple errors of usability still about on these appalling devices.
For example, there are two "convenience" keys on the side of the device. These are right where I have have to grip it when using it as a phone (for which, incidentally, it is a terrible form factor). So, inevitably these keys are always getting pressed when i try to hold it like a phone.
Whereas other manufacturers have learned to make the most of their keyboard real-estate with multi-function context keys (the ones that change function as you navigate through the menus - usually two just underneath the screen) - the blackberry designers felt it unecessary to provide such convenience to us business users. Instead practically every single function has to be accessed by first pressing a single menu button to pull up the list of functions and options - sometimes as much as 3 screens long! It's so tedious it's untrue.
And don't even mention all that wasted real estate on the main front screen....
so, some nicknames - feel free to suggest more:
blackberry, gadgets, humour in humour, science & technology 
