Pattern Recognition

Is this new on the iPhone?

griffey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:32:44 +0000

I’ve been testing a new Google Reader app over the last few days called Reeder, and noticed a UI piece that I hadn’t seen before on the iPhone. Check these pics:

On the first one, check the small dot in the upper right. If you swipe it, it folds to the left and shows the text on the second pic. Swipe back, and it goes back to the standard connectivity/time message. This is the first time I’ve ever seen an app take over the title bar…some make it go away, but this is the first I’ve seen with this behavior.

Are there any others that do something similar? It says something about the tyranny of the Apple UI guidelines that this shocked me so much.Similar Posts:

Collection distribution by publication date

griffey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:12:11 +0000

At my place of work, we’re just beginning a massive weeding project as a part of the larger new library building project. We are hoping to weed the entire collection for, effectively, the first time in the history of the library. Needless to say, it’s kind of going to own our lives for the next 18 months.

As a part of this, my awesome co-worker Andrea created this chart showing the distribution of publication dates for our collection. The massive amount of 1800’s is from our Early English Books Online collection, but the rest of it shows a pretty great distribution of “when did the library have funding” over the decades.

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2009 State of the Union Word Cloud – retrospectively

griffey — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:49:51 +0000

Since I realized that I had missed doing the 2009 State of the Union Word Cloud, here it is. Big difference from this year? “Economy”…barely mentioned this year, swapped for the more down-to-earth “Jobs”.

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2010 State of the Union Tag Cloud

griffey — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:34:17 +0000

In the vein of my previous years, here’s a Tag Cloud of the 2010 State of the Union address delivered tonight by President Obama. It’s particularly interesting to compare to the 2007 and 2008 State of the Union addresses (I skipped 2009, for some reason…should probably do it retrospectively I went back and did the 2009, for comparison).

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Google Voice Mobile Browser edition

griffey — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:39:37 +0000

I didn’t actually expect my “Death of the App” trend to move this quickly, but seems like Google is determined to prove me right. Google says “we don’t need an app” to Apple, and provides nearly exactly the same functionality via HTML5.

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