{"id":129923,"date":"2009-12-31T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2009:\/\/3.32809"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:47:32","slug":"the-single-best-tech-idea-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129923","title":{"rendered":"“The Single Best Tech Idea of 2009”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times’ ebullient tech columnist David Pogue handed out his awards for the best tech ideas of the year. Some of them I’ve covered already — like Bing’s pop-up previews<\/a>, Droid<\/a> and the Verizon MiFi wireless card<\/a> — and some of them are very cameras that I just don’t care much about. But here are two very cool ideas that passed under my radar.<\/p>\n

1) iType2Go<\/b>
\nI don’t have an iPhone, but if I did I’d buy this app pronto. When
\nyou’re texting, iType2Go superimposes your words over a live camera
\nview of where you’re walking. So rather than looking like a
\nhalf-klutz\/half-jerk running into trees, cars, families with strollers
\nand so on, you can see exactly where you’re going as you text your
\nfriend. For Droid phones, a similar function is called the Text’n’Walk.<\/p>\n

2) Readability<\/b>
\nPogue calls Readability — a free button for your browser that renders
\nany online article as an ad-free, novel-esque page — “the single best
\ntech idea of 2009.” That was enough for me! So I downloaded the
\nfunction by visiting the Readability site here<\/a>,
\nselecting my reading preferences (Novel-style text; Medium sized print;
\nWide margins) and dragging the Readability button to my bookmark
\nToolbar. Voila. Every article I read can now be rendered as a ad-free,
\nclutter-free page of crystal clear text on a sepia background. I urge
\nyou to try it out.


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The New York Times’ ebullient tech columnist David Pogue handed out his awards for the best tech ideas of the year. Some of them I’ve covered already — like Bing’s pop-up previews, Droid and the Verizon MiFi wireless card — and some of them are very cameras that I just don’t care much about. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}