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Dienstag, November 23rd, 2010ShareUpdate: 27.11.2011 Added workaround “Grouping objects in one image” Microsoft OneNote is a great application to gather information across other apps. Its also great because often it does things different and better than other Microsoft apps (example: no saving required). But unlike PowerPoint it has no functionality to group objects. That is a missing feature [...]
Posted in AcrossApps, Good Ideas, Issues explained, Recommended Products | 3 Comments »Finally a native Mac App Store : when will Windows get one too?
Mittwoch, Oktober 20th, 2010ShareWe asked a while ago for it, now we will get it first on Apples Mac OSX: an AppStore for the Desktop OS. Read all about todays announcement on Engadget: Live from Apples Back to Mac event When will Microsoft follow with one AppStore for Windows? Or maybe Microsoft should buy Steam and get by [...]
Posted in Good Ideas | 2 Comments »What is Steam for Mac ? What is Steam on PC ?
Sonntag, Mai 16th, 2010ShareSteam 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). [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Issues explained | No Comments »iPad gaming potential shown in video: LAN multiplayer and cross platform
Donnerstag, Mai 13th, 2010ShareThis 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. Tweet this!
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, 2010ShareGoogle 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 [...]
Posted in AcrossApps, Good Ideas, Recommended Products | No Comments »Microsoft wants less Windows
Montag, November 23rd, 2009ShareMicrosoft 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- [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links | No Comments »Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web
Samstag, September 12th, 2009Share“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 [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »Zooming interfaces: an alternative to the Windows user experience
Montag, Mai 11th, 2009ShareJef 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 [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links | 1 Comment »Why is there no natively built-in appstore for desktop applications in Microsoft Windows and Apples OSX?
Samstag, März 14th, 2009ShareApples 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 [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Issues explained | 2 Comments »Usability of free software tends to suck and how Mozilla Labs wants to address it
Mittwoch, August 6th, 2008ShareMatthew 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 [...]
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