The New York Times has a great read on menu psychology and how the fonts, ordering and descriptions of food is engineered to get diners spending more at restaurants. Read a different way, it’s a handy guide to culinary counter-intelligence. More »
In the month since Project Cleanup started, I’ve made a fair bit of progress on reorganising my life. Sadly, the progress on actually getting the flooring replaced has been a lot slower. More »
As we all know, Stephen Conroy has been proposing some monumentally stupid and short-sighted Internet legislation in the past week, but alongside the ridiculous censorship posturing, there’s actually one sensible legislative proposal that’s emerged this week: a plan to make it compulsory for all new developments to have fibre optic networks for all communications cabling. More »
Sending text messages on New Year’s Eve is always a pain: the networks are often congested, and using a touch screen or predictive text is difficult when you’ve imbibed a few. A free service from Samsung lets you schedule five messages to send automatically as 2010 rolls in. More »
Who knew iPhone users were such gluttons? A little over a month after launching its iPhone app, Domino’s claims to have sold over $1 million worth of pizza through the app. That’s an awful lot of cheese, though with 150,000 downloads, it only amounts to an average of about one standard pizza each.
The iPhone is the most popular mobile phone in the US, and with good reason. Despite occasionally awful choices by Apple, it still has the most — and best — applications around. Here are the most popular free iPhone apps (and posts) of 2009. More »
A fortnight after enabling Facebook updates via SMS, Telstra has rolled out a similar option for Twitter users, making it possible to keep up to date on what the world is doing even if all you can manage is a flaky 2G connection. More »
Mac only: Accurately named menu bar app Cinch lets you set windows up side by side, à la Windows 7′s Aero Snap feature, just by dragging them to the side of your screen. More »
Seven’s late arrival to multi-channelling last month came with the usual sting in the tail: viewers in regional areas (which in this context often includes all of Western Australia) couldn’t get it. For some of the many Australians who think of ‘Prime’ rather than ‘Seven’, that should change today. More »
