Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Apologies if this post shows up twice for anyone using feed readers. Windows Live Writer screwed things up a bit...With today’s cars having more and more functionality – stereos, built-in navigation, the engine computer metrics etc. – the steering wheels start to have more and more buttons. Sometimes it’s on ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Most games on consoles are easier to play for a beginner, than their PC versions. This is due to various factors, but I think it's mostly because it's easier to get into the game on a console than installing, learning the controls and all on a PC.
Let's take a look ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Recently in one of my freelance projects, the client needed a feature that allows them to search the database for records with a date between two specific dates.
Rather than opting for the typical three text fields + a date selector, I added a little trick to make it better...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
I recently got into the beta of BumpTop - You may have heard about it: it's a replacement for your Windows desktop.
BumpTop lets you use "real" actions such as tossing items around the desk, creating piles of items and such. Their site claims that BumpTop is "a fresh and engaging ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Opera has launched another widget competition: The x-widget challenge. The goal is to make the best cross-device widget - this means the widget has to work on mobile phones running Opera Mobile 9.5, which supports widgets, and in Opera on your computer.
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
There's an interesting project from Microsoft's OfficeLabs: Touchless, a project which allows you to utilize a webcam to do multitouch style input on your PC.
The basic idea is something I've thought about as well - have a webcam track a colored object, and use that as a "cursor". The touchless ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I've installed an application called Enso on my laptop.
What is it? It's an application, which turns the caps lock key into a small command prompt, which you can use to run various commands, such as calculating, opening applications, controlling windows etc.
Enso is a product of a company called Humanized, which ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I haven't had access to a computer or time to think about anything interesting to write lately, as I've been doing my civil service. Anyways, let's post something now!
As a long time computer user, I've used many different user interfaces, both software ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
I've lately been using Ext JS in a project.
Ext is basically a big JavaScript UI framework - like their site says, "a foundation you can build on". It comes with various interface widgets like Windows, tabbed panels, accordion panels, menus, toolbars and forms to name some. It also has various ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Pie, just like pie menus, is great.
What is a "pie menu"? If you don't play games, you might not be very familiar with this great type of menu, as it isn't really used anywhere outside games as far as I know.
Pie menu is a menu, which opens around your cursor, ...
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