Brian Dusablon

Marijuana Wars in Pictures (via Nick)

Cubs Go With Quade as Manager

What’s next for Sandberg? No one knows. But we do know he has no future with the Cubs. And that’s a shame.

I’m bummed. I wanted Sandberg or Girardi. I’m glad it’s not Torre, but I hope Sandberg gets another shot with the Cubbies, or that Quade is a pleasant surprise.

The Future of Learning: Smarter, Simple, Social

The current learning and development trainer becomes pivotal in facilitating the establishment of network contacts, and empowering individuals to identify and customise their personal knowledge business processes to best support their knowledge and learning needs in the current complex workplace environments.

Empowering individuals… Do it.

Remove Flash from Safari Without Click2Flash – Very nice. Done.

YouTube HTML5 Safari Extension – Awesome

Distraction Crutches

I didn’t need to have any software blocking any website, I didn’t have to disconnect from the Internet, and so on. I finished my work on time, and I ended up feeling less tired than I thought. But most of all, I felt focussed and in control.

Good points. I like WriteRoom for its simplicity, but I don’t need it to write. I’ve had issues getting work done with Tweetie, Skype, Reader, etc. open. Growl is awesome, but can be a huge distraction. I shut down the app, switch to a new space, and get to work.

Ruining Usability Tests

The 5 Browser Represented as Vehicles – I would have at least made the bicycle a road bike, because Safari is fast, too. (via)

The web isn’t rebuilding communities. We are.

I’m presenting at mLearnCon – what do you want to know about Mobile OS?

Who said the iPad couldn’t print? – Ha! (via HybridKris)

Android Running on the iPhone – oooh…I want to do this! (via Rich)

A different take on mobile learning (via Tom)

The Tweet Notebook – Overkill? Maybe. (via Aaron)

Dear Apple and Adobe – nicely said.

Upgrade now. Here is a list of security issues this update resolves. (via DF)

Niiiiiice!

Safari is (usually) my favorite browser, and this looks to be an outstanding update. And to think, I didn’t even here much underground buzz about this. Either that means I haven’t had time to read up much on Apple news and rumors, or it was a VERY well kept secret. Likely, it’s both.

Can’t wait to try this out, both on my POS XP laptop, and whatever Macbook version I decide to get this week.

Great post from Gruber about iPhone apps running in the background. Here’s a tidbit I didn’t know. Makes sense:

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) only have 128 MB of RAM, and WebKit can use a lot of memory. When memory gets tight, the system sends low memory warnings to running applications, telling them to purge what they can. Eventually, the system will start forcing apps to quit in order to free more memory. That’s why sometimes when you relaunch Safari, it remembers the URLs, but has to reload the content for all of your open web pages — that’s what happens when Safari is asked to quit while it’s running in the background.

Full article: Daring Fireball: In the Background