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By Bracken King    |     July 29th, 2010
Dear craftsmen: sometimes your tools deserve the blame
We're often told that it's a poor craftsmen who blames his tools. While that certainly sets up a nice standard of personal responsibility, it can also get in the way of evaluating those tools. It's easy to identify missing functionality in software, but failures in other aspects, such as poorly demonstrating its use, can mistakenly be attributed as the fault of the user. When evaluating your software, leave the accountability behind and hold the software to a higher standard.
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By Tyler King    |     April 29th, 2010 View Comments
Technology is evolving quickly - here's how you can keep up
What's next? When you first heard about Facebook, you probably didn't get what the big deal was (I sure didn't). Just when you started to understand Facebook, Twitter came out and seemed really dumb. Now you're tweeting but you keep hearing about this new Foursquare thing. We can't ...
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By Tyler King    |     March 23rd, 2010 View Comments
Back-up and share all your files with Dropbox
One of the main technological challenges that most small businesses face is that they can't afford the huge upfront cost of big-business software.  One difficult issue that I've personally struggled with is automatically backing up files.  It's incredibly risky to not back up your ...
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By Tyler King    |     February 22nd, 2010 View Comments
When tags and labels shouldn't be used
In the software world, there are two primary systems for organizing information: folders and tags (also called labels).  The difference is most noticeable as people transition from Outlook to Gmail, but I want to talk about the more general uses of tags and folders.  Specifically, I’...
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By Bracken King    |     February 17th, 2010 View Comments
The Rocks way or the highway
Over the past few years in graduate school, I've somehow ended up managing the computing resources for our lab. Prior to joining the lab, I didn't have any real system administration experience, so while I've learned a lot over these years, I'm still learning plenty whenever something breaks or we d...
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By Tyler King    |     January 26th, 2010 View Comments
My thoughts on the Apple tablet
As you may have heard, Apple is expected to announce a new tablet tomorrow (January 27th).  All the information so far has been based on rumors, but everyone seems pretty sure that the tablet (or whatever they end up calling it) will basically look like a larger ipod touch and it will work like...
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By Tyler King    |     January 22nd, 2010 View Comments
Things I  like: Image Editors
I spend too much time talking about bad software.  It's easy to point out the wrong way to do things, but that's not very useful unless I also give examples of the right ways.  With that in mind, I'm going to try to periodically post about software that I really like.  These posts will be a blend be...
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By Bracken King    |     November 17th, 2009 View Comments
Activation Barriers, Cooperativity, and other needless physical analogies (Part II)
As promised, I'm back with more analogies to chemistry and physics. If you enjoyed yesterday's post, you're in for a treat. If not, this post is completely different. Technology is cooperative It's no big revelation that change is difficult but important. We've talked about it before, and we'v...
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By Bracken King    |     November 16th, 2009 View Comments
Activation Barriers, Cooperativity, and other needless physical analogies (Part I)
Hello blogosphere, Bracken here, checking in for the first time on the Less Annoying Blog. While I have been working behind the scenes on Less Annoying Software, I've been absent from the blog to date. Tyler finally prodded me with enough force that I'll be posting with some regularity for the fores...
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By Tyler King    |     November 12th, 2009 View Comments
Five reasons to use Google Chrome
I have an annoying habit of evangelizing certain technologies to just about anyone I talk with.  One of the most common programs I recommend is Chrome, a relatively new web browser from Google.  I've been asked to defend my love of Chrome enough times that I figured I'd publish it online f...
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