July 2009
11 posts
Ballmer Admits Microsoft Ship Crap
techradar.com < jxpx777:
“We don’t believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price.” — Steve Ballmer
Heh, golden.
WatchHuh. Three20 was a lot cooler than I thought; I was thinking it was just a few handy controls, but lurking in its depths was a real, working and very cool implementation of Guy English’ Cocoa Shaders idea. The video shows a UI on top of this shader system, where you can play with what you’d otherwise do in code.
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Hexy: Everything Overload wants to be
Me over at iphone-reviews:
Hexy is an abstract, tile- and turn-based strategy game with variable board size, for the iPhone. With all those similarities to a certain other game, I had to give it a try. And you know what? Hexy is everything I ever wanted Overload to be.
It follows iPhone interface guidelines, while customizing them to go with the game’s theme AND look stunningly beautiful. It...
“Developers think cloning a site like StackOverflow is easy for the same reason...”
– bitquabit on that Stack Overflow REALLY isn’t something you can replicate over a weekend. Even typing at 100WPM and making zero mistakes and having the original source code on paper and just retyping it into your editor, would take eighty hours. Certainly puts it into perspective.
He...
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Raining on Chrome OS
marco:
Not to put a damper on anyone’s fun, but doesn’t the Google Chrome OS sound a lot like this?
That’s what I was thinking. I was also thinking, “Maybe Google’s won’t be as craptastic”, followed by “Wait, never mind”.
The only way web apps could work as desktop apps would be if you gave them all the features of desktop apps; rich c&p,...
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Futurustic UI: Virtuality
I just watched the pilot for Virtuality, and whenever I watch a scifi, I’m intrigued by the UI the future people use. Sure, some of it is just flashy wosh stuff just there to look good on the big screen, but there can also be real thought and vision behind it.
This video editor the shrink uses is cool because it looks like a real, working app, and he does gestures and live editing and he...
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App idea: Presence
Tell me if this already exists so I don’t waste my time! I’d want this feature for another app I’m writing. This is a mock iTunes App Store app description:
Presence lets you control an online service where you can set your global status (Available, DND, in a meeting, sleeping, etc), which can then be polled by any third party, e g to determine if it’s okay to push a...
