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By now there's been countless amount of rumors for larger screened iPhones. For example here's what iPhone 6 is supposed to be coming with. Most rumor postings only focus on the physical size of the device, which sure is important, but pay very little attention to the amount of pixels the screen would have. The reason why the pixels matter is that Apple has been very conscious to avoid

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So there's now iPad Air. Apple said it's a product that they have been wanting to do for a long time – a big tablet screen with the power of a laptop and weight + bezel of an iPad Mini. The device is just the screen – more than ever before. But there's another omen in the name – Will there be an iPad Pro? Of course, for Apple, the reason the make a significantly larger screen than the

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With iOS7 Apple is stepping up efforts in their design approach  "...way much more than how it looks, it's the whole thing, the way how it works...". One of the key changes compared to the older versions of iOS, is the conceptual layering of various user interface elements. Visually this is achieved with parallax effect, blurred translucency, animations and other effects. With mobile user

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There's been recently lot of rumors about the possibility of "iPad Mini", i.e. an iPad with smaller than 9.7 inch screen that the normal iPad has. Apple has for quite some time resisted the need for different screen sizes on the iPhone – it has stuck with the original 3.5 inch screen, while others have gone wild with larger screens. And to its credit, iPhone is definitely more pocketable than the

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I have had a change to briefly try out the Windows Phone 7 in real life use (i.e. with personal stuff fully set up in the phone). The Metro style in Windows Phone 7, especially when coupled with the upcoming user interface of the Windows on desktop, is a pretty sleek package, promising to free normal users from the clutters and overall mess of the user interfaces in the old PC era. Removing all

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So the Nokia N9 got finally launched, nearly 2 years after it's predecessor Nokia N900.When N900 was show to the world, it demonstrated new ways to do full multitasking, integrated Skype and VOIP experience, a good solution to conversational SMS and instant messaging, online presence, integrated sharing, a very capable web browser... And a Unix terminal program installed by default on device. In

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Fjord Digital Trends 2011View more presentations from Fjord.

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If you have the problem that – when presenting something with Powerpoint and want the actual presentation to be shown on the projector (or big screen).... but then what you get instead is the "presenter view" wrongly blasted there. Here's how to fix it.Permanently.1) Launch Powerpoint2) (menus) Slideshow3) Setup Show...4) Screen... 5) Move the black box outline to the other screen6)

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Remember the original iPhone launch? The outrage that it wasn't possible to create 3rd party apps for it? Why was it such a big deal? Especially considering that Apple just had released their first phone, with some music playing capabilities...Or did Apple actually release a phone?When looking at the big picture, I think what Apple did... was a general purpose device, with touchscreen optimized

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Summarising the good words by others...(John Gruber, John Syracusa)On the external antenna design:"Overall the iPhone 4 performs better than prevous iPhones. Apple is very confident in the chosen design, BUT the design does make an antenna weak spot explicitly visible to the end users."On the reception issues:"Vast majority of users do not have reception issues with iPhone 4. The left-handed "

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Now that iPhone 4 is on the block as well, let's see how things fit in the screen ratio and resolution ecosystem of Apple. This is a continuation of the previous post I wrote on iFrame.- iPhone (1st gen, 3G and 3GS): 480x320 ("a half" of iFrame, in width), approx 3.5 inches screen, 160 dpi- iPhone 4: 960x640 (same as iFrame, in width), 3.5 inches screen, 326 dpi- iFrame 960x540- iPad (1st gen):

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I'm pretty sure about this. The Flash (on mobile) is dead. It can take a year, or it can take 5 years. But it's dead in terms of being a major application development platform. Native mobile apps and HTML5 (on mobile web) will take over. On the otherhand, for prototyping on mobile (and elsewhere) Flash will be still very useful.The final nail in the coffin was unrelently hammered in by these

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Everybody and their mother is writing about Apple's panel. I think Gruber's thoughts and his links to other places on the topic are most relevant reading.While some others are much more populistic and techy-minded, there's one good thought intermixed in the wishful thinking – the screen resolution.Apple already has existing and in-use own video format called iFrame, which could easily be the name

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Let's see what all we can accomplish here. Blogging with MaStory :)

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The Maemo 5 documentation now includes also the GUI Design Template, which allows one to create high-fidelity image mockups.Currently the GUI Design template is available in Photoshop format that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.As is usual with these things, this is not something you'd use e.g. for wireframes or as a replacement for pen an paper. This is more

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I had a presentation in Maemo Summit 2009 about Designing UI for Maemo 5. The slides of the presentation are available in slideshare.Abstract: How to make the applications work together as an integrated whole? This talk will discuss the UI Design of the Maemo 5 product as an "application portfolio". Design patterns as well as application specific designs are presented, and the reasoning for the

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So there's this nice device called N900. And a cool user interface video:The song in that video is GRUM - Go Back (Le Castle Vania Remix), an energetic tune, freely downloadable from the net.Lastly, here's a less than 30 second excerpt of that song, so that you could, for example, enjoy it in your cellular phone :)Update: You can get another, more official N900 ringtone and message alert tone

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Bono, the rock-star in the band U2, sees the current world as suffering from an inequality of enormous scale - the Africans and other third world countries are severely disadvantaged and burdened by debts, diseases (such as AIDS) and lack of societal infrastructure. He argues that the Western world must help, because of their misbehavior in the history, and that they are not doing enough

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COMPUTER SCIENCEIn the field of computer science, the last 20 years have seen two main modes of production - the companies and open source. There is also a third semi-producer - the academic research. Although academic world has traditionally been closer to the open source -approach than proprietary software -approach, the current financing and contracting frameworks in the research are actually

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USERS - COMPANY divideOne of the key issues that user-centered research and design aim to solve is the lack of communication and feedback between the users (of products/services) and the companies (who create those products/services). Even nowadays it is typical for a company to create new products, based on a new/existing technology, without a real understanding of who will actually use the

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Took a small deep dive with Business Week to see what they have to offer. I was surprised about their quality of web presence. And I can actually see their articles (no registration pains, no subscription requirements)!It's sometimes good to see the business side of computer industry and innovation, and Business Week does have quality articles with that perspective. The many retrospectives are

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It's always a both exhilarating and stupid moment to realize something that's been sitting in front of you all the time. One of those moments was when I understood why it really is so important for Apple the create best-of-the-breed Voice recognition and speech synthesis software into every major version of Mac OS X.In a sense, the multi-sensory interfaces (not just visual and kinesthetic, but

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One of the Talks in TED Conference (blog) speaks about how enhanced touchscreens could make human interaction with the much more intuitive.Although the hardware is cool, the real interaction innovation lies in the applications and in the interaction concepts. The Talk does show quite good examples ("lava lamp", 3D earth, maps, atoms/biology).It would be really interesting to hear how those people

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(via slashdot) in the something-completely-different -department, the new trend in India is to have the website analysed by a guru in Vastu (the Indian equivalent of Feng-Shui). Does your website overuse the water element?The image on the let is an example analysis of Slashdot's "vibes".

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While it's often exciting to wait for new products from Apple and other design companies, it's not actually necessary to just speculate, collect rumours and get insider tips about the products.Much of the important "big lines" (strategies) and many features of the products can be understood through insight by researching and understanding the moves of the past. One of the sources for this type of

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