Apple’s online WWDC Keynote 2021 is introducing some new features for iPad OS 15, including privacy features (private relay) and live translation including from your Photo library. Pretty neat. Notes …
Content Aware Fill & Adobe Photoshop CS5
Some of the new interesting features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes showing off effects even developers did not intend. One such feature is Content Aware Fill as written about on …
Google’s Prediction API
Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
Designing Alarms & Alerts on Johnny Holland
Johnny Holland have written another insightful article, this time on the Design of Alarms & Alerts. The article covers some fundamental interaction design principles such as matching criticality to obtrusiveness, …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
JPEG rendering has security flaw
Microsoft has added a security patch for JPEG Processing (GDI+). The patch is quite interesting because it fixes a flaw in the rendering of a JPEG image by software code …
The redesign of the BBEdit 8 icon
The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon. …
Lessons from the Chinese translation of Free Culture
Blog on Blog comment on the unique differences and lessons learnt about the Chinese translation of Laurence Lessig’s Free Culture book. Some of those involved in the project from the …
Trust and accuracy of collaborative software
Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …
Bill Gates challenges Researchers to define the future of software computing
A copy of the Bill Gates speech from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2004 in Redmond, Washington on August 2, 2004. His speech challenged academic researchers from around the world …
The Apple Software Design guidelines
Apple has published a series of guidelines to help developers or anyone who wants to develop for the OS X platform. The guidelines are intended to help through obstacles that …
An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition
Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …