On a different note, if you bring this up or think about India too, how will it impact manual farmers whose entire livelihood is tied to doing the job? Or am I reading it (automation) wrong?
Btw, I’ve never liked a website taking over my mouse pointer or the scroll UI and behavior. But yours is so well done, it is lovely, cute, and is indeed very fishy.
I bought the 1st Gen iPad for my daughter while I was in the States for work (2010). Not a phone, big enough, and can be Internet-connected with a SIM. Lots of Games, and later my feeling of having bought something amazing was that my daughter learnt to speak brilliant English with Peppa Pig, way before her formal school started.
Palo Alto Stanford Shopping (USA) › FedEx to a Relative in Maine (USA) traveling to Manipur (India) › he trimmed a local SIM to fit the Nano-SIM tray › Happy Daughter on her 2nd Birthday.
I got a gift of a box of 3.5 Floppies about 10+ years ago. Dug up recently, and given each to my daughter and her neighbor friends, “Here is the SAVE icon. Keep it with you.”
I also remembered and completed the meme with a magnet stuck to the fridge.
This is interesting. I took the opposite path. I used to remember page numbers while reading books, just so I could come back without getting lost. That habit started in the School library. These days, I bought a simple, cheap, paintable bookmark, about 100 of them, which my daughters can paint. I have them lying around in books, as I tend to read multiple books at a time. My daughters keep painting them with whatever they want, from anime to their favorite characters, to just about anything. So, bookmarks for me everywhere. Sometimes, I tend to go back a few pages just to recollect the books I was reading a while ago.
I could not find the ability to import `.mbox`. Do you have plans for it or am I looking at the wrong options. Gmail exports as .mbox. I have been using Thunderbird as my mail backup but I need to do things manually. 20+ years of mails are scattered across a few mailboxes and exports. I would love to import them in a single searcheable archive.
I like replying to emails from the 2005s, 2010s, etc. Of course, the recipients love them too.
Haven't consider this kind of functionality yet, but I think this is the kind of functionality we need in the product that is being built.
I believe maildir is a better format for email cold storage. But ability to import .mbox - a real world need. Added it to the TODO list.
Current short term roadmap, with random priorities:
- Outlook oath fix
- Linux release
- .mbox import
- search improvements, to have more powerful search
Love your use case of replying to emails from the past.
I was in school, and I remember my 1993. Our school was one of the few schools in my hometown (north-east India) that got computers.
Unfortunately, we had too many students for each computer during classes. I started a revolt that “Computers are wasting our study time, as our upcoming board exams are more important.” The whole class signed the petition and the School Head had to schedule a class-wide talk and agreed to make it totally optional to the point of, “If you really want, you be part of it. But yes, study for the exam is more important.”
So, the computer classes ended up with just me (the traitor), a friend from Kerala, and the school head’s daughter. We ended up like 3 computers each to our disposal. I wrote a QBasic Game-ish program to impress my first girlfriend — she uses the arrow keys to launch dots to hit some area on a heart-shaped thingy on the screen and it prints her name. I remember using physical graph-paper to calculate the screen “pixels” (I think) or co-ordinates to calculate strike areas.
Oh and Yes, almost all of my classmates remember me for being that traitor.
Were computers common in schools in India in the early 90s? I was born in 1993, so this is a bit early from my time, but when I was in a (government) school computers started appearing in the early 2000s. They became common in households way later, probably around the late 2000s.
Also funny that your name clicked something in my head to check your profile, and yep you're indeed the Flash guy!
Back in the 2005-2010 era I was making Flash games as a hobby and used to browse a bunch of related forums/sites (flashkit, gotoAndPlay) for tutorials. Your name always stuck out since you're one of the few Indians who were well known for their expertise :)
Yes, Computers in the 90s were rare in India and even rarer in the North-Eastern region. I took every opportunity to be around computers during school and college days, mostly helping out pro bono. I might have visited and helped almost every commercial establishment with computers in my town. Fortunately, I also had a weird cousin, much older than me, who reads and talks about some of the weirdest things in the world. He had a computer in his study room in the early 90s. I was, I think, the only person allowed to touch his computer. Around the time when the Internet was launched in India (Aug 15, 1995), he told me that the world would soon become all connected with computers, “Imagine working for a company in the USA, while sitting in your home in India. Learn the Internet.” My ultimate goal during college was to leave that town as soon as I could. I started to understand all of his ramblings and weirdness as truths way later in life. btw, the Internet reached that town only around the mid-2000s and was an ultimate luxury.
Ah! Flash. Yes, I was lucky to be there. Invited inside Macromedia (first from India, and I think only one too for that thingy), listened to Gary Grossman talking about ActionScript, and worked with the whoswho of Flash at that time. Got my name listed in the Flash IDE’s credits roll, and all that Jazz. ;-)
Ah that tracks with my experience later too. Even in the mainland, computers were pretty rare for us regular folk. Early in the 2000's, my father for whatever reason assumed computers would be hugely influential in the future and borrowed money to buy one for us. Mostly meant for my older sibling who was in high school, it didn't take his interest but worked its charm on me hah.
And thanks for the pictures! I was a kid during this time, so had no contact with any professionals. Just other kids on various places like Newgrounds and other forums. I remember emailing Armor Games and Miniclip for sponsorship for my shoddy games and understandably not receiving a reply ;)
Nostalgic see to those giant beige CRT computers, that damn copy of Flash MX and people just goofing off haha.
If you were into Flash, you would realize that the people you see in the pictures are Colin Mook, Branden Hall (you’d have definitely read their books), Aral Balkan, Flashguru (aka Guy Watson), Jesse Warden, and (forgotten the names of the few others).
On the other hand, Indians are rejoicing that this might actually be much easier for us. We will still be going through the Visa Application, but we will get the digital version of the e-visa (I read that a physical copy can also be printed).
In all fairness, based on my interactions with Visa Applications, the UK government website is the best so far. I love their Design Systems, consistency, and UX predictability.
https://www.gov.uk/eta/apply also follows the same design language. I’d happier facing this one than many others.
If this is to replace Alfred (the replacement for Quicksilver), you need to list the details of all features. Currently, the website looks too polished, as if the demo is “too good to be true.”
I started teaching my daughters to use Alfred because my multiple attempts at staying native with Spotlight has failed despite its recent advancements.
I have always loved writing with pen and paper, and making lists is the easiest. I have changed and tried many formats, and I will continue to tweak and simplify further. Right now, I use a simplified Bullet Journal Method to plan the day, from running errands to eating the frog. Of course, I do use a lot of digital tools too (Calendar, Emails).
I’m happy to say that I’m having success helping two elderly (an erstwhile teacher and a businessperson) remember things by just writing them down. Carry a pocket notebook attached with a simple pen.
Nothing fancy, put a dot or a circle, and start your list item. Done ones are ticked or crossed out, ignored ones are crossed out, and if the list fills up on a page, that is too behind › carry forward and re-write the item.
On a different note, if you bring this up or think about India too, how will it impact manual farmers whose entire livelihood is tied to doing the job? Or am I reading it (automation) wrong?
Btw, I’ve never liked a website taking over my mouse pointer or the scroll UI and behavior. But yours is so well done, it is lovely, cute, and is indeed very fishy.
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