Seriously, what’s wrong with these people, y’don’t need a PhD to understand this is the wrong path to go:
To start, this guy is using a stylus, a stylus, it’s 2009, that’s a mobile device, just stop please, you shouldn’t need a stylus to use a mobile phone, and you shouldn’t design interfaces so that they’re dependant on them, like this scrollbar:
Windows Mobile 6.5 Scrollbars
Here’s another highlight from the above video:
Ah well, not actual requirements, more like a ‘best used with’.
And.. some basic unix knowledge like ~ = your home directory and stuff like that.
After enabling the backups user:
Generate an ssh key
First, launch the terminal app ( cmd+space and type terminal ) and type( > indicates the beginning of the prompt ):
> cd ~/.ssh ; ssh-keygen -t rsa
It’ll ask for a destination, just use the default ( ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ), and a passphrase ( leave it blank ).
Fingers, four.
[UPDATED for 10.5.8]
It’s quite simple actually, just grab this file (AppleUSBMultitouch.kext), open a terminal window and type this:
sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBMultitouch.old
that will backup your current multitouch driver, and next we’re gonna install the new one:
sudo mv ~/Downloads/AppleUSBMultitouch.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
( you can also copy it there using finder )
Final step is to repair permissions, use Disk Utility, select your Macintosh HD and click “repair permissions”, when it’s over reboot and voilà!
The computer mouse may someday become an endangered species. Instead of rolling a mouse around to move a cursor around on the screen, more and more users will gesture with their fingers on touch screens and multi-touch trackpads, analysts say.
Reads an article published today on PhysOrg. The article also states that in the next 5 years we may stop using a computer mouse, and that some may have already abandoned theirs, it mentions Microsoft Surface, Apple iPhone, HP TouchSmart and a couple of other devices, but in my opinion it doesn’t nail it.
trackpad
Something happened when I got my 15″ Early 2008 Macbook Pro in April ‘08, something that also happened to a couple of friends of mine, and my girlfriend, they’re all mac (laptop) users, as I am, and we’ve stopped using a mouse, there’s no need for it.
I’m a mac user for a week now and apart from gaming never felt the need of using a mouse, I think it’s the gestures; 3 finder swipe, 2 finger scroll, rotate and size of the trackpad.
‘The Perspex Pillar’, announced the man, ‘representing the forces of Science and Reason in the Galaxy!’
Give. Would love to try this on the subway, rush hour. Wonder if it would: a) generate a cool sounding racket soundtrack b) make me deaf.
This is the kind of app that has no issue whatsoever being approved on the App Store, wonder why.
And another quickie, shame on me, 9 drafts and I pub a quickie, lol.
Think this project is worth mentioning, haven’t followed MS Research much lately, not sure how old this one is but the article on AppScout’s from 2008/10/20.
Gigapixel Annotations - areas
Cool project from Microsoft Research, by Qing Luan and friends.( very little details about this project so it must be really recent )
It basically does what the name implies, it’s a way of annotating Gigapixel images, based on zoom/panning. As the user gets visually near a pre-defined area/hotspot, an annotation is displayed, currently there are 2 types of annotations:
Pretty neat, sound’s very important in human perception and can totally make a difference, try watching this video with no sound:
It’s not the best example I could remember, but it gets quite boring with no sound.
Same for images, maps. Imagine Google Maps with sound, Street View, it’d be much fancier wouldn’t it? Doesn’t need to be accurate, just something like when viewing a city play a city-esque sound, same for nature, sea, etc, you get the idea.
It’d also be nice to have Fado playing when viewing Lisbon, Serenatas on Coimbra( During Queima i.e. heh ), highly contextualized.
Q: When.
Yahoo Developers Network pubbed a research about their openid usability, I just wanna highlight these 2 pages:
user exposure to multiple(13) openid providers
Just silly, they had already to insert the multiple providers, so, why not instead add some logic to that form so that you just need to type in your openid url/email? Code does the rest.
OP & RP collaboration
Agree if we want to have an homogeneous experience.
This is a long overdue rant against ViaCTT, a service provided by the ( only ) Portuguese Post Office, CTT, and created by his geniousness Luís Nazaré.
downforeveryoneorjustme result for viactt.pt
That’s the first thing I like about it, requires you to specify the subdomain, common illness.
The Looks
Anyway, Luís( not this one here ) states this is a Million euro project ( infra-structure costs not included ), alrighty, let’s talk about this million euro web service they built, starting with the homepage:
ViaCTT Home
First thing my right side of the brain said was: “eww”, my left side puked afterwards. It’s ugly on the outside(above) and on the inside: Read More
To take advantage of this promo:
SyncMate 50% off @ MacUpdate ($19.95 , retail $39.95)
Just to let y’all know.
update: speaking of synchronization, the development of OggSync for mobile is stalled, the current beta works well and if you download it and use codes beta12 beta13 up to beta25 I believe, you’ll get access to the pro version for free, been using it for months.
SyncMate: sync your windows mobile device with your mac(files, photos, contacts, music, time, notes, etc)
OggSync: sync your windows mobile device with Google(contacts, calendar)
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