Archive for October, 2008
Mozilla’s Fennec – Firefox for mobile devices
Built on an open platform like Firefox, Mozilla’s Fennec alpha release became available last week for download. It is very touch-optimized and contains a smattering of Mobile Safari stylings. You swipe left and right to access other pages, history controls, and settings.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/
Below are some screenshots running on the emulator for the Mac.
normal
swipe to the right
swipe [...]
Del.icio.us Bookmarks for September 12th through October 23rd
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office applications | Balsamiq
Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
How to Sync iPhone with multiple computers « tinyfish
“social networking” Job Trends | Indeed.com
MegaPhone | Making Digital Signage Interactive
Mircosoft Reasearch UK and SideSight
Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, and Steve Hodges, all with Microsoft Research UK have been prototyping gestural interactions outside the device itself. This will take some work to get it right and get it right in the proper contexts, but a creative approach for ever-shrinking devices.
By twisting one’s hands appropriately on either side of the phone, [...]
Read More..>>Several iPhone to do apps compared
So I’m a big fan of to-do lists – enough to put “research and review to-do lists” on my to-do list. I was looking for one for the iphone, so I read some reviews and spent some time using each. Here is my take on the following free iphone apps from an interaction and usability [...]
Read More..>>8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
So I’ve come across a few tips for speeding up firefox. I’ve included the ones I feel should be the most valuable or stable. These can be added by tweaking the about:config file or creating a user.js file in your user profile folder. Be careful and use at your own risk!
Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very [...]