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« Previous EntriesWhat is Steam for Mac ? What is Steam on PC ?
Sonntag, Mai 16th, 2010Steam is like iTunes an online application store but for games only and unlike iTunes (that is selling apps only for Apples iPhone, iPad and iPod) the games that can be downloaded from Steam will run either on a PC with Windows or a Mac with Apples OSX (but not on iPhone, iPad or iPod).
We [...]
iPad gaming potential shown in video: LAN multiplayer and cross platform
Donnerstag, Mai 13th, 2010This video is showing the potential of Apple’s iPad as a gaming platform. We are using the game Galcon Fusion to demonstrate cross platform multiplayer by running the game in parallel on Apple’s iPad and a Microsoft Windows 7 PC.
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links, Recommended Products | No Comments »Google Reader power user tips : read it later, archive web pages, store bookmarks online
Sonntag, Februar 21st, 2010Google Reader works great as a feed news reader. In addition Google Reader can be used easily as:
Simple ReadItLater alternative to gather webpages you detected right now and that you want to come back to later when you have maybe some more time to read
A very simple web archiving solution
Simple cross browser and cross operating [...]
Microsoft wants less Windows
Montag, November 23rd, 2009Microsoft is continuing to invest into user interfaces that will help users to open less windows.
Quadrant and Pivot are the code names of two new Microsoft applications that make use of a zooming interface to let users change from overview to detailed views in a seamless way.
1) Microsoft “Quadrant”
“Microsoft code name -Quadrant- is a graphical [...]
Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web
Samstag, September 12th, 2009“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic”
Source
The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11:
http://september11.archive.org/
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider
In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on the web can be seen as [...]
Zooming interfaces: an alternative to the Windows user experience
Montag, Mai 11th, 2009Jef Raskin, the human interface expert who started the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 70´s, was not happy about how most of us today work with their computers:
“In present systems, work gets done in applications (which are sets of commands that apply to certain kinds of objects). Tasks are not accomplished at the [...]
Why is there no natively built-in appstore for desktop applications in Microsoft Windows and Apples OSX?
Samstag, März 14th, 2009Apples iTunes application store for iphone and ipod touch has demonstrated the value that a simple and integrated access/purchase/install/use/upgrade/uninstall life-cycle solution for applications can bring to a platform. Obviously Microsoft (Google has the Android Market, Nokia will launch Ovi Store) is now also introducing one for its own mobile platform.
The better user experience of [...]
Usability of free software tends to suck and how Mozilla Labs wants to address it
Mittwoch, August 6th, 2008Matthew Paul Thomas is listing In this follow up post to the 2002 article “Why Free Software usability tends to suck” lots of reasons “Why Free Software has poor usability”.
Item number three on his list is :
“Design suggestions often aren’t invited or welcomed.”
Exactly this point seems to be addressed in Mozilla Labs recent call [...]
Enter text similar as you roll in Super Monkey Ball: How typing on iPhone 2.0 could be faster and much more fun!
Samstag, Juli 26th, 2008While the virtual keyboard on Apples iPhone gets the job done it is still not really fun.
Why not to be a little more creative and use iPhones special hardware to make typing faster and more fun? Movies and all details after the click.
The power of Mashups explained: Another Desktop usage scenario is moving to the Web
Samstag, Oktober 20th, 2007Intel, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, SAP and IBM: All of them are investing to take a dominant market share of the booming “Mashup” trend. From a user perspective the concept of Mashups is rather simple to get:
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