But your best bet is to ask a T-Mobile representative when you visit your local shop.

I did a very short presentation that gives an overview of some aspects of IFT. The slides for that are posted on my website. For an in depth understanding of the subject I’d highly recommend reading Peter Pirolli’s book – Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information.

@forestninja

Enjoyed the card sorting post, and the ITSO link (ironically, the ITSO post mentioned “what’s missing” from the configurator—add to cart—and that’s what this reply is saying—you need a Follow Me on Twitter link).

Do you happen to know how to make the contacts list sort by last name instead of first

Record a video. In the video recording screen under the settings button, go in there and make sure it’s set to save your video to the memory card, not the phone’s memory. If you accidentally record to the phone, you can go to your phone’s files and move the video to the memory card.

Plug your phone into your computer using the USB cable. Tell your computer to open up the device and view the files and folders stored on it. There should be a folder for images and one for videos. Your video should be in there, and you can just copy it to your desktop or wherever you want to save it on your computer.

That’s how I do it.

Anyway, just be mindful that this is not as good a web-access phone as the iPhone or Google Phones. It’s mainly for the camera. Unless you have 3G network, you’ll probably have a very slow time trying to use youtube. Twitter works fine.

It’s a shame i might have to dish out the extra 20-something dollars for a data plan. But at least I’ll be able to tweet and youtube on the go.

Have you managed to find a screen protector for it in stores?

3 – I’m not sure, but I’d be willing to bet you need a data plan for this also.

I suppose you could buy the phone without a data plan at first, see what works, and then if nothing works, get the data plan later. I just paid for unlimited data and texting, so I could avoid hassles and get right to doing whatever I wanted.

1) When you say AIM needs internet to go on AIM, are you talking about an internet plan or is a text messaging plan suitable enough?

2)”Flickr uploader – there’s a built-in shortcut to send your photos to your Flickr account right after you take them.”
Can you upload pictures without an internet plan? (And not pay for any data)

3)Can you get weather updates from the widget without an internet plan? (Again with not paying for data)

Basically, what can’t you do with an internet plan for the phone.

It would be super great if stuff could go directly from the phone’s memory to the computer through the USB cable. But I haven’t figured out if that’s possible either. Sorry I can’t be of more help. If you find a way, please let me know.

What I will say, that I’m not sure has been emphasized enough here, is getting feedback. Show it off to some other mugs before you set out. Folks you know will tell you more politely what needs to be fixed than the palookas you’ll find on the ‘web.

It won’t work for everyone, but what Ninja Mahoney says is still true. You need to know the scope and most efficient way to work your blog before you get started. These guidelines will work for most blogs, but not all. Go with what feels right, and you’ll never go wrong.

One thing I did to make this easier is change the phone’s USB settings to “mass storage device”. You can do this by going to Menu > Settings > Phone Settings > USB Settings > Mass Storage.

Another thing to note is that for some reason my camera defaults back to storing captures directly on the phone rather than the memory card. So if you have time, before you start using the camera or video cam, just check that the settings are adjusted to store your captures on the memory card by default. If you don’t remember to do this and you need to get photos from the phone’s memory to the removable memory card, you can move them by going to the photos folder and touching “more” “manage”, where you will find the “move” option.

Other ways to transfer data from this phone to the computer is by uploading it to the web via facebook, flickr, etc. The built-in email app does let you make attachments to gmail messages, but gmail’s mobile website does not. Either way, when you upload things to the web or send them to people, you typically have to wait for it to load. Using the USB cable is pretty close to instantaneous.

I did some research on the screen. Based on this article: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question716.htm I am pretty sure the Samsung Memoir has a resistive touch screen. Sometimes I touch it and need to press a little harder to get it to register. I can touch it with a pen cap and it works just as well (though I don’t due to fear of scratching). It was a pretty low-priced phone. These things are all characteristics of a resistive type touch screen according to what I read in that article, so I am pretty sure it’s resistive.

I have also noticed that in certain light conditions and from a very sharp angle, I can see a faint grid of dots over the whole screen. I figured this has to do with the touch technology.

Additionally, many people, even seasoned marketers, confuse strategies with goals. They start out with a strategy, such as adding video or social media without really defining the problem.

Your approach, to focus on what they really want to do and why, is a good way to get people thinking about what their goals really are. From there we can work with them to determine what strategies can be used to achieve them. Is the solution a change in content? Enhanced SEO? A blog? Improved navigation?

I wrote about this recently in 8 things to consider when redesigning your Web site—let’s start with WHY? in which I discussed how we can use our goals to lead us in our content, design, navigation, marketing and technology choices.

Goal setting is the key to Web success. If we don’t know what we are trying to achieve, we can neither develop a practical plan nor measure its success.

As for how I got screen shots from both versions, Facebook released the homepage update in waves. Mine got the new view while my boyfriend’s account was still in the old style, so I simply took screen shots in both accounts. Eventually his account was brought into the new style too, so I knew I had to move quickly to get the examples I needed. I’m sure if I’d had more time to use them both in parallel, I’d have found even more annoying changes. >.<

Nice review you have here.

(btw, I wonder how did you get the screen shot of facebook old design to accompany this review. If I may know?)

I’ll probably add Top Commentors later when I redesign the blog layout. Hopefully within a few months I’ll get a chance to do that.

with static banners however i can be ignorant upto 100%, and with ease. i find that often out when my mother talks about things (on a site i sent her the url of) i had never seen before: some advertising banners. – come to speak of it: this also happens with moderately animated banners.

for me there is no contradiction in your article, as long as you keep animation in the equation: animation in a banner catches your eye, static banners may vanish in the unconscious.

Kongregate as a website also nominated Music Catch 2 as the best game of last month. Why not include it in your competition?
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Reflexive/music-catch-2

Your Name/Alias: Dravium
Flash Game Designer’s Name/Alias/Organization: http://www.pixelbridge.com/
Nominated Flash Game URL: http://www.glidemagazine.com/burrito/