27 Apr 2009 - permalink
One week after submitting my first and free iPhone app, KbhTog, to the App Store, it is now available for download. KbhTog provides quick access to a map of public train and subway stations and lines in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read more about KbhTog or download it at the App Store
25 Apr 2009 - permalink
Gordon Miller explains his first-run experience with a new Microsoft Surface, that does not respond to touch input when first turned on.
That’s the true cost of a poor approach to usability – it gets you a reputation that’s hard to shake.
Unbelievable!
17 Apr 2009 - permalink
A long but good post on why we are still stuck with the desktop metaphor for most user interfaces. The very problem I’ve addressed when talking about the problem with online data and views to your media files:
Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place.
Brent Simmons sums it up brilliantly:
I don’t know about you, but I know this issue is always in the back of my head. There’s a nagging feeling that we’re doing it wrong, that there are some leaps forward we’re missing, that we’re still stuck in 1984.
3 Apr 2009 - permalink
The new iPhone app Convertbot by Tapbots is just as beautifully designed as their first, Weightbot. The app feels so polished and at home in the iPhone GUI that it just begs for usage. It doesn’t really feel like an app, rather it becomes the device. This is exactly what it means to raise the bar.
2 Apr 2009 - permalink
Thanks to all the comments in the introducing blog post , a lot of great features have been implemented in the new version 1.4 of my debug bar plugin for Zend Framework.
PHP
jQuery
HTML
Head over to the Scienta ZF Debug Bar page and give it a spin or read the introducing post.
2 Apr 2009 - permalink
I first thought this to be an April Fools story, but the sgi press release confirms that they have indeed been sold to Rackable.
When I was a kid, Silicon Graphics was king of computer generated imagery (along with George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic), producing special effects for movies like Jurassic Park and Terminator. They even initiated the defacto standard for describing 3d models, the OpenGL standard.
Good stuff
31 Mar 2009 - permalink
It’s not imagery from the ISS but this picture series from The Boston Big Picture is a fantastic display of before and after. The Wikipedia entry on Light Pollution has some background on the scale and some of the consequences of using so much light, including two remarkable pictures from space (composites of satelite photos) of the earth at night in 2000 and 2007 - the increase is stunning.
27 Mar 2009 - permalink
Rands:
We are defined by what we build. It’s not just the engineering ambition that designed these structures, nor the 20 people who died building the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s that we believe we can and decide to act.
26 Mar 2009 - permalink
New application by Omni Group that looks amazing. It is the kind of software that feels like a magic, digital version of pen and paper. A simple idea but it works remarkably well for creating illustrative graphs.
20 Mar 2009 - permalink
From the SAMBA blog:
Get real. Entrepreneurship is about growth and value. Entrepreneurship is about creating something a sufficient number of people want or need. Entrepreneurship is about turning every dollar of resources spent into something worth more than a dollar. Entrepreneurship is about building a company and growing it beyond startup stage.