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Microsoft Surface - A Multi-Touch Screen to hit the market soon?
31 May 07 02:12 PM | urig | with no comments

Kudos to liorz for beating me to it (link to post in Hebrew). Veteran readers of Tidbits might recall my fascination with the "Multi-Touch Screen" technology developed by Jeff Han of NYU and how it might revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. Microsoft Surface promises to be a commercial implementation of a Multi-Touch Screen that will hit the market this winter (according to their PR site). See Bill introduce the product at the Wall Street Journal's D conference : It's very surprising...

תגים:gui, usability, microsoft

Paint.NET is the open source Photoshop
08 May 07 10:49 AM | urig | with no comments

Back after a long period of time away from the internet. This won't be much of a comeback though, as I'm getting married (!) the day after tomorrow and then I'm going here for a week: Santorini on 43places . But I digress. I just want to recommenced Paint.NET . In a sentence, it's the open source Photoshop. It's a free for download open source photo editing software. Of course it's not a real competitor for Photoshop - certainly not for professionals - but all the basic stuff is there - the lasso...

תגים:gui, usability, tools, development, open source

What's missing in the new Google Reader?
06 November 06 12:00 PM | urig | with no comments

I've been giving Google Reader a spin and I'm finding it very easy to get used to reading my RSS feeds through it. They've done an excellent job with the UI, as usual. But then I needed to find an old blog entry from Oren Eini's blog (a book recommendation for a fantasy trilogy of all things) and I've discovered that Google Reader is missing something very important. Something that Google is almost synonymous with - a search box. What and odd surprise - there is no search feature (that I could find...

תגים:google, gui, rss, google reader, usability