Hey. Want to know a secret? My memory sucks. It’s always been laughable… but it’s gotten a lot worse. And I blame it on technology. Well, OK, that’s not really fair— because it’s not really “blame”. In fact, I kinda asked for it. Ever since I started taking notes on a Handspring Visor...
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No matter how great your app is, if you mess this up, it will fail. I’m talking, of course, about user experience. Not design, not implementation. Listen. User experience (UX) is tough. No one’s denying that. In fact, it’s one of the hardest parts of software design. The people who are most engaged in building the...
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Microsoft Research has a new patent that’s sure to get people buzzing. (I had to.) The patent involves reverse-engineering the dangerous viruses commonly carried by insects and using those same insects to spread “good” or antidotal versions of the virus. The beauty of this is that the same successful disease...
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Someday, the iPad and iPhone will shed even their Home button. At least, that’s the thought behind some new features discovered in the new iOS beta. Version 4.3, which was released to developers earlier today, has several new gestures in place. They enable navigation without ever touching the Home button, letting you...
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