The Land of Wind, Ghosts and Minimised Windows Windows can’t, you see, just blithely stop drawing a program’s window when it’s minimised. I think that’s because you can’t count on programs to redraw themselves correctly, or because they may freak out if one or more of their various window-drawing strategies is not correctly bit-bucketed. … … Read more
David Brin has written an article at Salon titled Why Johny can’t code. The basic premise is that it has become very difficult for the younger generation to pick up computing, as simple and straight forward environments of yesteryears are gone. As an example given by David, it was much easier to do between late … Read more
This is a reply to an email I have received from Mark of CNXN fame, the one that made del.icio.us and Reddit with his No-Folder tutorial as a feedback to my post. The text has been edited slightly to better fit blog. First a quote: As illogical as this sounds I find this very valuable … Read more
Apple software logs out of India- The Times of India: Considering the low-cost, high-quality talent pool that Bangalore offers, it is unclear why Apple decided to shut shop just over a month after it commenced operations. Say what? Maybe the proper way to react to Apple’s actions was to actually stop and think: are there … Read more
As seen on Slashdot, quoted from CRN: CRN | Lenovo, Linux, Lenovo3000 | Lenovo To Shun Linux: Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week. So, it has started. It has not really … Read more
Over at Mark Rosenberg has published a tutorial on Using Outlook Without Folders, Without Filing. This is so much un-GTD that I had shivers going down my spine when I realized what this was about. This is also likely targeted at those lucky among us that don’t fear seeing an inbox full of 12,345 messages … Read more
Opera Mini™ for Mobile: Opera Mini™ is a fast and tiny Web browser, that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. … The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone. I’ve had previous version of OperaMini running on my Nokia 6230 … Read more
Motorola exec reveals next-gen slimphone: the SCPL – Engadget: TLK BT TS: MTRL’S HD HNCH FR CLLPHNS, RN GRRQS, RVLD TH XSTNC F N PCMNG HNDST CLLD TH SCPL (THT’S SCLPL, N CS TH LCK F VWLS MD T NCLR) DRNG RCNT CMPN NVSTMNT CNFRNC — BT KPT LL TH MPRTNT DTLS T HMSLF. LL … Read more
Is the Console next Desktop?: For professions that require loads of data-entry, such as bookkeepping, income tax, retail… console-based applications still provide more user performance than any visual design. This is the second para in the first comment posted. I can’t agree more. Time and time again I am seeing that good GUI metaphors are … Read more
I have now had a little more time to play with the “little white box,” here’s a few amendments/additions/clarifications to my earlier review. Glare/display There is a glare. In some case it might, indeed, be strong. Yet you can relatively easily get rid or reduce it — you should generally not be sitting with strong … Read more