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“There have been rumors for a while and today TechCrunch says they’ve been hearing that an offline version of Silverlight is coming to compete with Adobe AIR.” I think it’s too early, and I have a feeling if MSFT does something it will be more through I
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“Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards: Company outlines new approach to make standards-based rendering the default mode in Internet Explorer 8, will work with Web designers and content developers to help with standards behavior transition
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“the first release of Google Gears on mobile devices. Gears is initially available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.” Mobile development is on the cusp of getting very easy and it’s going to explode!
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The Report: * Sizes up the Facebook opportunity–who’s making money, and how? * Lays out best practices of marketing with Facebook Applications, aka Social Media Optimization (SMO) * Identifies the top 200 Facebook applications * Goes beyond Facebook, and
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“Two weeks before the iPhone went on sale last June, Apple Inc. flew representatives from five universities — including four of the nation’s top-tier schools — out to its Cupertino campus to cement deals for a new educational learning initiative dubbed
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list of all ActionScript 3 classes in the Flash Player, Flex 3, and Adobe AIR 1.0 APIs that implement interfaces, as well a list of the interfaces that they implement.
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A cool flash widget for selecting a date range. “The date slider is a Flash visualization that Measure Map uses as one way to navigate the site.”
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it’s possible to get Rails running on BlazeDS using JRuby.
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Xcode is Apple’s premiere development environment for Mac OS X. Sometimes I forget there are other IDEs than Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver, Netbeans and glorified text editors. Our customer surveys prove me wrong.
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In advance of my Tap is the New Click presentation at ETech, O’Reilly has graciously allowed me to post a draft of the first chapter of this book (now titled) Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces. It’s pretty much my unedited first draf
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Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz.
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A good anti-pattern to look at for menu design. It’s when the users eyes are forced to jump around the pages in a zig-zag or pogosticking manner, instead of smooth path.
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Seattle based design firm.
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“That is what Snippage does, you can crop a web site and keep the cropped “snippet†on your desktop. Once it is cropped you can set a refresh increment and visually watch for changes. When you want to view the whole site again just click on it and the
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fluid lets you create website-specific applications – really just little webkit browsers as their own applications with their own icons. – kinda air like…not offline thought just chrome and icons. interesting what subset of AIR people think is important
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cheap online back up seems kinda cool to, but the neat part is they us an air app. should make it easier on people to jump ship from pc to mac. the os is becoming irrelevant!
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A review of 6 interesting looking AIR Apps. Worth checking out. I like to see what applications of new technologies, non-techies latch on to first.
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This site presents the definitive view into open source activities at Adobe, including details regarding projects that Adobe participates in and hosts.
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VERY COOL! Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal t
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cheap and easy mac screen casting software. Only draw back is you need another program to edit your video afterwards.
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The best way to ensure usability is to treat human factors as an input to design, rather than merely evaluating prototypes or design documentation. The capability of pattern languages to facilitate the design process, improve communication, and record des
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