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TweetBoard Alpha
TweetBoard makes Twitter available right on your website. The window is dynamic and doesn’t get in the way. It seems to be a very cool and usable way to facilitate your marketing efforts and may even communicate with your customers. We are awaiting alpha testing approval and will let you know about the integration process…
Apple's MagicMouse - Most usable mouse ever
MagicMouse is a very well-designed device. I got it on the first day they were available and spent about 10 days using it. The mouse is great. Very responsive and precise. Still runs on the original batteries with about 40% charge left which means it will go for about about 3 weeks. The gestures work…
OpenOffice Mouse - 7 buttons for each finger
After debut of Apple’s Magic Mouse – a super well and smartly designed piece of hardware, OpenOffice Mouse produces mixed feeling. The bulky and very impressive design that places 7 buttons under each finger might require extensive training to use. (Piano players will have a definite advantage using it). The thumb button makes it look…
Design In Use - Rozetkus 3D
Here is a good example of what design should do for us; make our everyday life a bit easier. Art Lebedev – a Russian design studio that came up with the Optimus Keyboard, (1257.14€) a few years ago is back with a useful concept that does solve a real problem in hand. Rozetkus 3D looks…
Quiet Read by Bambooapps
Quiet Read is a small app that’s beautiful in it’s simplicity and usability. A good example of design providing a solution to a problem. I think it is going to be quite popular for several reasons. It does one thing and does it well. It’s got a well-designed UI that doesn’t draw unnecessary attention and…
Vista and Windows 7 GUI mystery
When I first saw Vista my initial reaction was “what the heck?!”. It wasn’t incompatibility, performance, nor stability that caught my attention. What amazed me at that time was the Vista GUI, which now seems that it will transfer over to Windows 7. So what is so special about it? To tell you the truth I…
Aggressive Online Advertisement
Floating windows are the most annoying kind of internet advertisement according to the Russian internet statistic agency. Floating windows bother 78% of internet users Banners bother 7.6% Video ads bother 3.6% Only 3.4% of users actually order something using advertisement links.
Touch screen tactile feedback and user satisfaction survey
A survey recently conducted (France, Germany and the UK) showed 38% were planning to get a touchscreen on their next mobile phone while only 47% of people who already owned a touchscreen said they would get another one. In other words, less than half of touchscreen owners thought they’d stick with the technology on their…
Useful text editing shortcuts (Mac OS X)
I came across a few useful text editing shortcuts for Mac OS X @ www.ss64.com – a site dedicated to all kinds of applications/os syntax… Editing Text (email, TextEdit, Pages, etc) ⌥ ← Move one word left ⌥ → Move one word right ⌘ ← Beginning of line ⌘ → End of line Scroll one…
Microsoft Tablet (Booklet)
Surprisingly good industrial design sets Microsoft’s Tablet (Booklet) apart form Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble nook, Cybook Opus, PRS-300 and other book readers. It is hard to judge how usable it will be without having one in hand but it sure looks good. If MS comes up with good software support it definitely will attract…