Multi-Touch and Some Other Cool Things

Ok. This guy is into some cool, cool stuff. Jeff Han has a num­ber of very impress­ive short movies of some of the fas­cin­at­ing pro­to­types. Not only Multi-Touch (which the iPhone has sud­denly become most pub­licly asso­ci­ated with), but some very inter­est­ing work using LEDS as pho­to­di­odes, and his media mir­ror which pitched as artwork, …

Packaging Presentation

Mitch Ratcliffe at ZDnet is con­duct­ing a longer term com­par­ison between a new Mac­Book Pro and a Len­ovo X60 as part of a series of art­icles look­ing at broader user exper­i­ence with two OS plat­forms. I nor­mally would not cite an art­icle from the more main­stream eNews media as they often strike me as being …

A Real Apple Museum

This guy’s place puts me to shame. Even in my pre-move glory days, my col­lec­tion was nowhere in the vicin­ity of this one. For those of you that don’t know I reduced my space when I made the move to Hamilton and at least half my col­lec­tion of hard­ware went to the dump along with …

Running Sparklines

I got the little Nike+ pedo­meter for my iPod last year to track my run­ning pro­gress. Yeah, that’s right its was purely for exer­cise sake…yeah. Yes, its a gad­get. I like gad­gets. And this one is very cool. If you don’t know the Nike+ doodad. There is a wire­less receiver that attached to your iPod …

Weighing Vista

Hav­ing now dis­covered how easy it is to simply hit the back key on your key­board and simply loose the longest blog entry that you have ever made…I start to rewrite this post. I am sure, you, the reader, will bene­fit for hav­ing a more con­cise entry, but for me the writer, argh­h­h­hhh. That little …

Making the Pitch

Clever lads have run the CES address of Bill Gates and the Mac­world Key­note by Steve Jobs through a vari­ety of text ana­lysis tools to get an idea of why one has greater impact than the other. The art­icle demon­strates that there is a huge dif­fer­ence in the com­plex­ity of the mes­sage. Jobs deliv­ers short, …

iPhone Anticipation…

OK. It’s hit hit every front page in Christen­dom in the last 24 hours and with one fell swoop, Jobs was able to eclipse the entire CES show, RIM stock took a huge hit and Cisco has announced its suing Apple for trade­mark infringe­ment. The iPhone inter­face has Apple fan­boys drool­ing (yes, myself included) and …

Do Ten Years Make a Difference?

It is inter­est­ing to con­sider the vastly dif­fer­ent (yet sim­il­arly tar­geted) Apple eMate of 1997 and the OLPC pof 2007. Float­ing about the inter­net cur­rently is a really cool screen cap­ture of the ‘Sugar’ inter­face used by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) pro­ject. OLPC seems to have stuck for the last little while. I …

Has Productivity Software Improved?

This cer­tainly seems like an appro­pri­ate place for an his­tor­ian to be ;-) Ahh, but so much more, Old­Ver­sion is a web­site that is col­lect­ing links to older ver­sion of main­stream soft­ware applic­a­tions under the prin­ciple that olde ris not always bet­ter. This one just had to hap­pen. I have often thought about how I …

videoPodcasts — An Up and Down Relationship

Ok. I’ll admit I am rater late to the pod­cast­ing thing. I remem­ber when they star­ted show­ing up in as spoken word com­ment­ar­ies to down­load to your iPod and of course I had to try them out. They were still rather unformed and exper­i­mental and more import­antly for me, I didn’t find myself with the …