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Make it easy – Passwords

In general everything should be as easy as possible on the internet.  Since programmers and designers can control just about everything on a page, they should make it simple and easy.

So when I see a difficult sign up page, I get depressed.  I have abandoned signing up for plenty of services, just because their sign up page was so hard. 

For example this one. 
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It is a simple newsletter type thing.  Why should I have to pick a NSA quality password?  

Remember, if you design on the internet… Make it easy.
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Too many Updates! – the need for a unified updater

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It may be noted that I am not quite the typical iPhone or Mac users.  I download just about any App that looks interesting.  But this is getting ridiculous.  I can not go a day, without getting prompted to update or download an update.  So I decided to track which apps and when I was prompted to update.  

The stats are this.  One month. 39 updates.  Over 1 a day.  

I don't know what the solution is but something has to happen.

I propose an integrated platform for all updates.  I can then once a month view all the apps (iPhone and Mac included) that need updating and can approve all at once any and all updates.  

For the curious here are the apps and days.

Jul 16 skitch   Foxmarks for safari
Jul 17 iPhone
Jul 19 tweetdeck
Jul 21 safari and Java for mac os 
Jul 22 – for iPhone
Animoto
Evermore
Shazam
Aroundme
Facebook
Taptap2
Enigmo
Midomi
Things
June 29 – TweetDeck
June 30 skype 
topple 
loopt 
remote
July 3 backgrounds
Goodfood

July 4th adobe indesign cs4
July 5th dictionary
Evermore
Lose it
Requall 
Tap tap 2.6
Things
July 6 istat pro
July 9th tweetdeck
July 10th rescue time
July 12 tweetdeck ihandy level
July 17th evermore
Mormon channel
Tunepad
Banner
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Terminator Salvation – doesn’t work

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Terminator Salvation could have been a good movie.  But it was not.  

In fact, there were so many plot holes and logical jumps that I had a hard time even enjoying it.  

Sure there were lots of explosions and gun shots, and giant robots.  But these things do not a good movie make.

I would like to just ask the writer a couple of questions.

1. How come the robots don't listen in to the Resistance broadcasting exactly when and where they will attack?
2. Why don't the robots just look for fires? They have thermal sensors, and last time I checked robots don't need fires.  
3. Why isn't anyone curious? I mean if I was the only human alive in the whole city and some guy shows up, shouldn't you ask him "Where are you from?"  "How do you think you became half machine?" "What are you trying to do?"

In the end I think Terminator Salvation is a Redboxer.  Get it from RedBox, but only when everything else is checked out.
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Terminator Salvation – doesn’t work

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Terminator Salvation could have been a good movie.  But it was not.  

In fact, there were so many plot holes and logical jumps that I had a hard time even enjoying it.  

Sure there were lots of explosions and gun shots, and giant robots.  But these things do not a good movie make.

I would like to just ask the writer a couple of questions.

1. How come the robots don't listen in to the Resistance broadcasting exactly when and where they will attack?
2. Why don't the robots just look for fires? They have thermal sensors, and last time I checked robots don't need fires.  
3. Why isn't anyone curious? I mean if I was the only human alive in the whole city and some guy shows up, shouldn't you ask him "Where are you from?"  "How do you think you became half machine?" "What are you trying to do?"

In the end I think Terminator Salvation is a Redboxer.  Get it from RedBox, but only when everything else is checked out.
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