Kids these days grow up with the idea that they can have spaces and lots of other funny characters in their directory names.
— 8jean
Mailbox Is Nothing New
A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a video ad for an email program that can be run on an iPhone. I Googled this Mailbox “app” to find out more about it. The press seems to be extremely excited for this thing, but I honestly don’t see why.
Their home page is filled with modern web clichés: lots of white space, a huge 1,000-pixel vertical length video, and short paragraphs describing their product.
You cannot expect normal human beings to question all their assumptions 24/7. Every time you blinked you’d have to prove to yourself that the whole universe hadn’t just been switched off and then instantaneously recreated itself.
— tehcyder
Secure Banking
Earlier this week I tried to sign up for my local bank’s online banking feature. I put aside the fact that they charge you for using it and proceeded to fill in the required information. The problem came when I tried to set a password.
Estimado cliente:
La clave de acceso debe ser alfanumérica, no se permiten acentos, o símbolos especiales (#, &, ?, etc.) ni más de 2 caracteres consecutivos (123 o abc), tampoco más de 2 caracteres idénticos consecutivos (111 o aaa).
Estimado cliente, en su pregunta no se permiten caracteres especiales ni la letra Ñ.
The text says that I’m not allowed to use any special characters. This also applies to the secret question I was trying to set (this means I cannot end the question with ‘?’). The passwords are also limited to 10 characters. Way to go, Mexican banks.
Steam Big Picture Mode
Today Steam added a new feature to their Windows client called Big Picture. This is a new interface designed with game pads and a TV in mind. The first thing I noticed was that it resembles the Xbox 360 dashboard. You even access it by pressing the guide button on an Xbox 360 controller while playing a game.
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