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Jobs: "No one will be using Flash. The world moves to HTML5"
At a recent Town Hall meeting with Apple employees Steve Jobs made it clear that Flash is not coming to iPhone or iPad. “Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash,” he says. “The world…
Unicode is used in almost 50% of Internet Documents
Good News! According to Google Unicode is used on almost half of the Internet pages, which makes it a global text encoding of choice. Google uses version 5.2 of Unicode, which represents a wide range of characters from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, to most living languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Zulu. ASCII, which once dominated the…
Apple's iPad Pros & Cons
This is what we make of Apple’s iPad presentation – a beautifully and smartly designed new device, which is clearly oriented towards the education market and execs on the go. Pros: Beautiful design Vertical and horizontal modes Long batter life (10 hours) Amazing stand by time of 1 month LED screen, which delivery reach colors…
The first image of the real Apple Tablet (apparently)
Engadget posted a very interesting image of what-may-to-be upcoming Apple Tablet. The image looks credible because of many hidden details and the well-designed top menu, which is very simple, and very much in Apple’s style. Anyways, we’ll know for sure in about 4 hours 🙂
How Much Time Do We Waste on Badly Designed Apps?
Computer load-time, pop-ups, new apps installation, new user interrelations, lack of intuitiveness, search for drivers, frozen system, reboots, etc. – are just a few of the things that most of us face on daily basis. Dealing with all of these issues takes users up to 30 minutes a day, according to Telegraph UK, which equals…
Apple Tablet Confirmed by The Wall Street Journal
It is almost certain a new device is going to be unveiled next week. We’ve heard many name variations such as iSlate and iPad –both are Apple’s registered trademarks– Apple Tablet, etc. It seems like Apple’s plans are big this time; they aim to re-shape the publishing industry (which is in an apparent crisis) as…
66% of Government Workplaces Now Use Social Networking Tools
A recent report by the talent management companies Human Capital Institute and Saba says 65% of government employees now use more than one social networking tool. Interestingly enough, Instant Messaging (IM), which is very popular in the corporate sector isn’t heavily used among government staff. The report points out that a majority of social networking…
Nexus One and Touchscreen Accuracy
Today Engadget posted an article that claims many Nexus One customers complain about touchscreen calibration, which is an important element of the graphic user interface (GUI) as well as the user experience in general. As well, labs.moto.com published an interesting report last week comparing the accuracy of touchscreen of various mobile devices. It would seem…
Car Dashboard UI Layout Gets Updated
The new Ford Sync App Ecosystem is a promising move toward the long-awaited upgrade of cars’ user interface. While driving conditions have changed dramatically during the last 50 years, the dashboard UI has not. Our driving habits and laws have changed but we are still presented with the same basic set and layout of a…
"Microsoft has No Taste"
The following interview summarizes fairly well why MS products are so hard to use and why Microsoft hasn’t been able to “get it right” for the last 15 years. I’ve never thought of MS as a design or innovation company. For me, it has always been a tandem of engineers and businessmen serving a certain…