The Tech Block Weekend Edition Jan 14 – 18
Can’t get enough of The Tech Block’s featured articles? No problem! The Tech Block Weekend Edition puts all of the weeks best articles in a single place just in case you wanted to re-read them or if never had the chance to. Enjoy!
Pretty design isn’t always effective design
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is …
The birth of a fanboy
How exactly does one become a fanboy? To understand how a this transformation to happens, let’s begin with the birth of a fanboy. Birth A fanboy for company X isn’t born a fanboy for …
Facebook takes its hunt for success one step further with Graph Search
Facebook today unveiled a new tool to help you connect with your friends, titled Graph Search. ”This is not keyword search”, the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, noted at the event Tuesday morning. He continued, ”We don’t …
The 5 design books you should read
Maybe you’re an engineer, or maybe you work with a designer. Or maybe you think that design is about using Photoshop. Maybe you just care about design. If any of these are true, …
The state of Android development in 2013
I started developing on Android back in 2009 when the 1.6 platform was released. I decided to write a couple apps for fun that solved some of my problems. After launching two apps within a …
The state of digital notes
No matter who you are, it’s certain that at some point there’s going to be a piece of information that you’ll need to capture for use later. We all take notes. However, we …