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There is a lot of fuss lately around the disfluency in reading a text (Telegraph, UsabilityPost and Wired) Someone has thrown the idea that e-readers are “not so great” because their content is, well, too legible, therefore the learning efficiency is low. (First thing to notice is all the articles’
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I’ve just figured out: the “magic” of my iPad was never magic for my kid. For her it’s just a beautiful, natural and easy to handle thing she never knew before.
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One is trying to make you believe what you see, the other one is making you see what you believe. We’ve seen the latter before and it didn’t turn out well.
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“Google was designed to play the role of a passive observer of the internet: web content was created for people, not specific Google queries, and Google would look around, take inventory of what was available, and give it to people who asked.” – Marco.org I think we need a bit
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I don’t think Apple will replace the home button with the multi touch pinch. It’s more probable they wanted to add the gesture as a supplementary home function in case you lose the orientation. It looks very important for Apple to minimize the friction.
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Just to be sure I don’t forget: The whole story about the newspapers being killed by digital technology is bullshit; what we witness now is the beginning of a huge press disintermediation process, where big corporations are being pulled out from their “middleman” role, letting for a while the
Skype update adds video call for iPhones
Coyote Tracks: Nokia and Microsoft, not sitting in a tree chipotle: While I’m late to the party commenting on this (holidays, what can you do), you may have seen numerous news reports about Nokia considering Windows Phone 7 as an OS instead of (or in addition to) Symbian and
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Kontra’s Counternotions strike against “legal cloning”. He must be pissed off by previous post’s comments…
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Peter Vesterbacka (“Angry Birds” developer) Paid content just doesn’t work on Android. This is no news for most of us, of course. But just add Kontra’s insight about 2011 cheap Android’s expansion: So the Android crusaders will be circling us in 2011, swinging their $85 smartswords to
How about extreme design?! This is a “shot” from Dribbbler, showing off a (PS3) game’s icon extreme design. One of the comments to this shot reads: Allison House “This is beautiful. I want to play that game so badly…” I would say this is the secret answer to the
Gravity – Twitter client for Symbian teaches Nokia some usability musts: this is how a real touch keyboard should look like. Look for Jan Ole Suhr on Nokia forums or @janole and see comments like this: “Nokia should buy Gravity or hire Jan Ole because Gravity is by far the most