While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like.
For the time being, I think we’re still going to do more with iPhones than holographically projected images, but videos and other speculative [...]
User Augmented Reality Interface
Nelson’s RSS Problem
Nelson Minar was helping a friend sort out why: “Google Reader was sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the link destination.”
Turns out it is because of the differences between guid and link elements in an RSS Feed. You can tell he’s really frustrated with the time and effort this cost him [...]
One Button Three Finger Salue
Gary Krakow (the tough guy biker of MSNBC tech reviews — seriously, look at his picture) has a positive review up of two new “sub portable” laptops.
It’s straightforward enough about their specs and capabilities, but what really caught my attention was that the FlipStart has a dedicated button for CTRL-ALT-DEL.
I’m struggling trying [...]
ThisService: the Greasemonkey of OS X
Found out about this very interesting application (system enhancement?) called ThisService by WaffleSoftware.
Across all operating systems in modern computing there are both command line and GUI programs. While there are some limited ways of getting them to interact it’s usually a big tradeoff:
- Command Line apps (of the Unix lineage) are small and allow [...]
Before and After
I’m working on a new project (this is actually the first public mention of it) called OneToFive. It lets users create comparisons and ratings of whatever topic they are researching.
I spent a good chunk of today cleaning up the homepage from its very rough beginning. This is necessarily an iterative process as I change, [...]
NewsAlloy Issues
I wrote a previous post about an Essential Feature of online feedreaders.
Unfortunately, NewsAlloy doesn’t seem to be tackling the “switching cost” issue with any sense of urgency. This is really too bad as the interface seems very responsive and well thought out. Underlying this though it would seem that they don’t really want people [...]
The Floppy That Wouldn’t Go Away
Floppy Disks are as dead as most of the things for sale at the “deli” counter at the local asian market. Things have been bleak for our friend the floppy ever since the 1998 introduction of the CD-ROM only iMac. Since then, the introduction of USB thumbdrives and several thousand varieties of memory cards have [...]
Microsoft vs Microsoft vs Yahoo vs Google vs BlogLines vs Newsgator
Microsoft recently launched their new “Live” site where you can subscribe to different RSS Feeds.
I thought it would be interesting to compare the look of the different web aggregators out there and see how they stack up.
This is a comparison of:
Microsoft Live
Microsoft Start
My Yahoo!
Google Reader
Bloglines
NewsGator Online
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IE 7 RSS Logos
Over on the Microsoft Team RSS Blog they have posted some of the possible new logos for indicating that the presence of RSS/Atom has been detected.
However, just like the highway billboards I see with text too small to read, that I’m sure looked really great in some pristine, well lighted board room. The icons [...]