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Are people more efficient on wednesdays?
We seem to get about a 2/3% average increase in hits to all of our sites on Wednesdays. This has been a trend for over a year now. Obviously Saturday and Sunday are very low hits as all of our sites are early years & educational.
Follow me on twitter – JohnMcLear
lets face it, I’m not gonna use it much but it might be worth adding me to see what other people are saying.. http://twitter.com/JohnMcLear
My biggest beef with 2009 and XP (more of a rant)
Is that after years of XP being a staple OS for most of the industry, MS STILL make you bounce a machine due to windows update. I mean c’mon. MS, please stop dev’ing new stuff and please make an OS that doesn’t require so many reboots..
Uber slick curved widescreen monitor by NEC for just $8000! Bargain, right?
NEC CRV-43 Curved Display Features:
- Seamless curved screen, which eliminates bezel and screen gap issues for increased productivity and decreased frustration (according to Center for Human-Computer Interaction – Shupp et al, presented at Graphics Interface 2006)
- 2880 x 900 double WXGA native resolution
- 200 cd/m2 brightness
- 0.02ms Rapid Response
- 10,000:1 contrast ratio
- Wide color gamut with 100% coverage of sRGB and 99.3% coverage of Adobe RGB
- Single link DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 input connectors
- USB 2.0 connectivity for easy use of peripherals
- Front panel controls
- On Screen Display (OSD) and software-based GUI, which enables advanced display control options
Hopefully one of our suppliers will read this and we will be able to review it and keep it 😛
Smaller sizes are available. At current these screens are not suitable for primary education due to their price & lack of being able to bring anything new to the users interface. I struggle to see how graphics designers and video editors will feel about this. Imagine 3d modelling on a none flat surface?
Who will win, 3d or curved? My moneys on interactive 3d screens for the workplace and curved for gamers/home. Hrm, curved 3d touch screen.. Drool…