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As a blog with 11+ writers, it’s hard to find a good tool to allow seamless communication with fellow Okay Geek editors and staff. Sure email works alright most of the time, but it’s messy, bloated, time consuming (really time consuming) and distracting. Then there is the lightweight ability to quickly shoot out a DM on Twitter, but there you’re limited to 140 characters, so efficient communication often results in sporatic broken conversations that take a bit of work to understand. What Dialoggs wants to do is create a closed inviornment for focused, un-restricted and lightweight discussion for creative teams - here’s what you need to know.

May 3, 2011

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Tuesday

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Ricardo Trejo

May 3, 2011

Television

GOAB - A new way to watch and share the tv experience

GOAB. A TV Experience Concept from Syzygy on Vimeo.

GOAB - A new way to watch and share the tv experience

There’s so many ways to watch “television” programming nowadays, though there doesn’t seem to be a way to bring it all together for people to share the experience in real time. And here in lies the power of GOAB, a concept by Syzygy Labs that takes tv and implements tools to enhance and expand it. Will we ever see anything like in our living room? I sure hope so.

Ricardo Trejo

May 3, 2011

Television

Monday

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Jason Tsay

May 2, 2011

Mobile,

Mobile Software,

Smartphones,

iPhone

This is How iPhone Notifications Should Be

iOS notifications concept from Andreas on Vimeo.

This is How iPhone Notifications Should Be

It’s a given that the iPhone’s intrusive notification system sucks but no one is really sure how Apple will end up doing notifications when the new version of iOS hits. Andreas Hellqvist thinks he has an idea. Although I personally do not agree with every aspect of his design, I believe he has some brilliant ideas that are worth a look.

Jason Tsay

May 2, 2011

Mobile,

Mobile Software,

Smartphones,

iPhone

Thursday

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Apr 28, 2011

Top Apple design features for functionality

Top Apple design features for functionality

Every day we hear about people drooling over how Apple products look and why they buy them up for that reason alone. What we don’t really pay attention to is how useful some of these designs make the products, and in the video by MattsMacintosh we see some features that really explain why people loved certain Apple products.

Apr 28, 2011

Thursday

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Apr 21, 2011

Giant wind powered walker on the beach - Video

Giant wind powered walker on the beach - Video

This creeps us out on many levels - it’s huge, it can chase after you and you can’t remove batteries to stop it. Of course you could beat it with a stick, but that would just make it angry. The beast is called Ventosa Siamesis and it stands 5 metres tall and 10 metres long. It’s made from recycled plastic bottles and plastic tubing. It’s powered by air, and can trap air into a “stomach” to use as a power source if the wind stops.

Apr 21, 2011

Friday

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From inside the @Milk Office - Photo collection

Not too long ago, Kevin Rose left Digg and started his own company called Milk. The company’s Twitter account and it’s employees have been tweeting out photos from inside their new offices, and like a lot of folks who follow Kevin Rose and his endevours, it’s awesome to have a rare opportunity to watch a company evolve from day one. Here are some photos from inside the Milk offices — feel free to add more in the comments.

Apr 15, 2011

Internet

Saturday

Mar262011

Okay Geek Introduces Keyboard Shortcuts

When we introduced the “Continue Reading” section in the sidebar inside articles, people started to use it regularly. What was interesting was people were starting to use it to view articles in sequence, probably to see the articles we had posted that day. Well, we wanted to give you a much better way to do that.

Mar 26, 2011

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