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I recently gave a talk on some of the challenges posed by the rise of skeuomorphs in user interface design:

Link to video: http://vimeo.com/user3323813/skeuomorphs

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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:50:00 -0700 iPhone Tracker http://anothertompetty.posterous.com/iphone-tracker http://anothertompetty.posterous.com/iphone-tracker

So earlier today Apple revealed that our iOS devices are in fact tracking us wherever we go (source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13145562). Creepy or cool? Maybe a bit of both. As a self–confessed Apple fanboy, I'm used to (and expect) them to be a bit weird and clingy, so this doesn't come as too much of a surprise. 

By using a little piece of software Pete Warden built available at github (http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/) I can track every single place i have been since getting my iPhone 4 last October.

Weird.

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