This concept for an iMessage app for OS X Lion is just that, a concept, but I wish it was real. The designer, Jan-Michael Cart, has produced other slick-looking ‘wish-fullfilment’ videos for potential Apple software in the past and this one is just as nice. The video, discovered byMacstories, was posted to Cart’s YouTube channel and shows off a nice iMessage app for OS X that integrates seamlessly with the iPhone, iPad and iPod versions found in iOS 5....

I went from software development to HR and back — here’s what I learned Insights from my weird journey An engineer in HR? “Lena, WHERE are you going to work?” was one of the standard questions I had to answer many times. My friends know me as a true TechWoman: enthusiastic about medical technology, a bit nerdy, and a software enthusiast as software provides me with the short feedback loops which fit well with my actionist character....

This video is so good, I can only hope for the day I’m proposed to on Chatroulette with a room full of singing men playing mandolins. Watch out for the Reddit alien at 2:27. Recap: Here’s how to start an Internet love connection.Step One: Log onto Chatroulette.Step Two: Check girl’s name.Step Three: Make a pizza with peppers in the shape of a heart.Step Four: Give your friends mandolins and play rehearsed love song with lyrics like “I had a floppy disc that you turned into a hard drive....

There’s an alternate universe out there where Apple (still) makes translucent gadgets, and I want to live in it. Giulio Zompetti, a developer who also happens to collect rare Apple devices, recently got his hands on what are reportedly partially-transparent Apple prototypes. Behold, thetranslucent AirPods: #AirPods, translucent prototype earbudspic.twitter.com/zE4dt47H0J — Giulio Zompetti (@1nsane_dev)November 30, 2021 Oooh, ahhh. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

Something’s very wrong with the traditional 9 to 5: it doesn’t work. Scandinavian countries dominate theWorld Happiness Report— Norway beingthe third most productive country in the worldand Helsinki winning the title of thebest city for work-life balance. And their standard working week is less than 40 hours long. They work a whopping359 hours lessthan Americans every year. How I began working 5-hour workdays (by accident) When I quit my job in the great resignation of 2020 to become a freelance writer, I was determined to continue working eight-hour days....