A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If you go to the iPhone4S product page on the Apple site, you’ll see some sweet CSS3 animations at work. John B. Hall took the birds’ eye view and analyzed what happens. The “phone stage” (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 “slides” of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and …
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A conversation with Siri. Reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey at 5:30 (original here): Also see Gruber’s time with the iPhone4 and Siri. By the looks of it your speech is sent to a translation/recognition service and the result then returned you, just as Google App does. Gruber also notes that this may be one …
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t …
Two years ago I wrote about Fitts’ Law vs. iTunes/Safari describing the lack of the upperleft and upperright pixels in the Windows distribution of Safari. The lack of those two pixels resulted in some really odd behavior (the upper right corner for example didn’t trigger the close button, as you clicked *through it*, hitting the …
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