Please note: this site has gone retro…
March 1st, 2010
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we're having some technical glitches that brings us 'back in time'... sorry for the inconvenience.
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Apple ‘Reinvents’ our 12 year-old ActiveEdge UI
February 2nd, 2010
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Way back in 1998, Jobe and I dreamed up a new type of interface - perfectly suited for mobile devices. We called it Active Edge. The patent was granted in 2002. It resembled the touch interface that is currently the rage, but was confined to the 4 borders of the display. ...
TabletMac Now Available for $699*
January 21st, 2010
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Who knew? Everyone is waiting for the Chosen One's product announcement, yet a Mac tablet has been available for a while. Axiotron will take *customer-supplied Macbooks and for 7 bills or so turn it into a swanky tablet. The downside is that it's still a bulky, heavy, full featured laptop. Pretty ...
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What’s Cooking Steve? Apple’s new patent applications
January 21st, 2010
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Fresh off the press at the US patent Office are some interesting filings by the Cupertino Cult. 1. POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY AND SOLAR CELLS - Are shiny solar cells going to be the 'new aluminum'? This invention describes a clever mechanism of virtually re-ordering cells to produce constant voltage in the case that certain cells ...
Categories: Business, Environment, Gadgets, Innovation, Mobility, Patents, SaaS, Software, User Experience, Web Apps
Specialty symbols are off the mark
January 20th, 2010
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Imagine if you invented the @ symbol (aka 'commercial at')... in 1400... or whenever (no one is sure) It was used for basic accounting, but mostly useless for the masses. That is, until that email app became all the rage. Now imagine if you could charge $2 to everyone ...
Categories: Media, Pirates, User Experience, social-media
Zombify: Photoshop made easy (for zombies)
January 19th, 2010
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This has been around since the launch of the Zombieland web site promoting the movie. The flash app buried inside the site is a brilliant execution of UI. It takes many complex / abstract concepts of graphic tools and makes them usable - for the masses. The first improvement - the controls ...
Toys-R-Us Research Institute: Gender differences in size perception
January 9th, 2010
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The Sociology Lab at the prestigious Toys-R-Us Institute recently published some definitive research on gender differences. The study concluded that females were perfectly satisfied with magnification power of 90x in telescopes and 600x in microscopes. Males on the other hand suffered severe magnification envy, requiring at least 250x in telescopes and 1200x in ...
Brian Eno’s Trope: Best iPhone/Touch app?
December 16th, 2009
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So here is my favourite iApp for 2009 - Brian Eno's Trope. Try thinking of nothing. Blissful empty space. There's an app for that. As some of you know Brian Eno has been a master of minimalist ambient soundscapes for 4 decades. One of my favourite albums is ...
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