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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Marshall McLuhan on the Global Village
I recently came across this famous forecast from Marshall McLuhan on what he coined the “Global Village”:
“The global village is a world in which you don’t necessarily have harmony, you have extreme concern with everybody else’s business. And much involvement in everybody else’s life. [...] And so the global village is as big as [...]
Touch screen predictive text entry - Swype & Shapewriter
2 companies have recently released software that aims to speed text entry on touch-screen devices. The prospect of this very promising, especially for mobile devices. Hopefully the accuracy is improved since a wrong suggestion can wipe away the perceived benefits of several right ones.
ShapeWriter™ makes mobile phones, tablet computers, game pads, and all other touch-screen [...]
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Instapaper
Axure Design Pattern Library v1.0 at A Clean Design
Gestalt Psychology theory - visual laws: Proximity, Similarity, etc.
Welcome to CellSpin - mobile blog posting aggregator
Welcome to CellSpin - mobile blog posting aggregator
SenseSurface
This is a great example of augmenting virtual environments with real physical controls. I am really interested to see computing technologies augment metaphors for real-world interaction with actual real-world interaction.
http://girtonlabs.googlepages.com/sensesurface
(those are real knobs magnetically attached to the screen)
Read More..>>The return of the Command Line - Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity
The command line interface is making a comeback! Some say it never left. I never liked them, since they required you to memorize a strict lexicon of cryptic commands, but for certain tasks, they are efficient and powerful. Enter the new generation which eschew formalist structure in favor of “natural language” commands.
For desktop integration, there [...]
ok let’s cancel
So, which one is the right choice?
I got this alert dialog today while installing the Firefox 3.0 add-in “Foxmarks”. Nice one…
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WHERE » Widgets, meet GPS. WHERE GPS Widgets.
Nokia - Beta Labs - free mobile software
openmoko.com | Products - open source linux mobile touchscreen phone
design QR codes - embed logos and pictured into a QR code -
QR Code and semacode/Data Matrix barcode generator -
OpenMoko UX Design
OpenMoko has recently released the Neo FreeRunner, an open source mobile phone platform geared towards the DIY developer set. Who else would want a terminal app on the homepage? The initiative is great, but this incarnation has a long way to go towards delivering an enjoyable (and dare we say even usable?) experience.
Unless [...]
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Flixwagon - live mobile video streaming
QIK | Streaming video right from your phone
DOPPLR - frequent travelers location sharing
Sender 11: Fonts for prototyping mobile UIs
Mobile Communication Patterns in the EU
* Users are increasingly switching from fixed to mobile phones with
around 24% of EU 27 households just using mobile. The proportion is
significantly higher in the new Member States (39%) than in the EU 15
(20%), with the exception of Finland (61%) and Portugal (48%). In some
Member States this increase is accompanied by [...]
