Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)
Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows. Kinect is a game changing technology.
As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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A reader advised us that NJN Network on her Blackberry was looking pathetic. She was right.
We made a few changes and Voila it seems to be working correctly now.
On a smartphone, this site fits withing the screen and appears different than the browser view on a computer. Continue reading
Adobe Flash
Adobe “will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations,” according to a blog posted by Danny Winokur, general manager of interactive development for Adobe. Those configurations include the chipset, browser, OS version and more, he said. The changes will take place following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook, he added. Continue reading
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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.
Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.
Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web. Continue reading
The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone - was a dream in the 60s
People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.
The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.
It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading
Apple’s tutorials for iOS 5 encourage you to sync your iPhone or iPad over wi-fi.
Why? Because you can now.
The downside is that every time your iPhone is near the computer it will launch iTunes on top of whatever other programs are working. Continue reading
Jonathan Ives and Steve Jobs on a better day
Windows 8 launch screen with active tiles (beta)
This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.
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The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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Apple OS X Lion only available as download from the Cloud
With the release of OS X or Lion, Apple has stopped shipping software in white boxes with CD ROM media.
Most of us are already using the Cloud whether we know it or not.
Apple software is only available by download from the App Store. To reinforce the point, the latest MAC hardware doesn’t have a CD ROM drive.
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Paul Simon blew his opportunity on iTunes by featuring second rate material.
Paul Simon was complaining recently that Bob Dylan beat him in the music business by being more ironic. Continue reading