If you’ve been following apple related news you’ve heard that they recently started coming really hard after any applications that could be considered “sexy” or “suggestive” – whether its by virtue of having girls in bikinis in their screenshots, or suggestive text in the description – and removing them from the app store. You can …
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10/GUI Concept multi-touch desktop interface
If you haven’t noticed, multi-touch is all the rage these days. From iPhone’s slick interface and gestures, to all the laptops and netbooks that are trying to get in on the game, not to mention Microsoft’s “subtle” approach to the issue with their Surface idea. Then there’s also multi-touch for desktops, and as always the …
Multitouch support demoed in Firefox
The never-tiring folks at Mozilla are already hard at work on implementing multitouch events in Firefox. Felipe Gomes has posted a short demonstration of very cool multitouch capabilities via a few simple use cases. Here is the clip and a few words from the man himself.
Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.
We’re working on exposing …
Space saving, permanent Gmail and Google Reader Tabs in Firefox
This very useful tip was sent by Harsha Kotcherlakota to Lifehacker.com.
The idea is to set up tabs for Gmail and Google reader that will always be open, but with a few extensions will have minimal impact on the interface while providing the information relevant to each app (site). For a full guide see the link …
Amazing footage of James May on a U2 spy plane
This is a bit of an old story but it’s just so amazing and mind-blowing and I wanted to post it. James May, from Top Gear, took a flight on a U2 spy plane.
The Lockheed U-2 is a wonder of engineering. It’s intended for very high-altitude flights – 70,000 feet (about 21.3km). The design of …
Engadget goes hands-on with Google Wave
The good folks at Engadget got a personal tour of Google Wave from the masterminds behind it – Lars and Jens Rasmussen – and lived to tell the tale. The full article goes into some juicy details about this new communication tool, and concludes that while there’s tons of great ideas in there, it’s still …
HTML5 Video and Audio Experiment
Gizmodo had a post on an HTML5 experimental page from 9Elements design studio. If you have Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 or latest Chrome build you can check it out yourself here.
It’s really an amazing piece of work – beautiful animations coupled with sound and neat interactivity (clicking the lights displays tweets about the page). All …