John Gruber on The Verge & Why Typography Matters
John Gruber of Daring Fireball was the guest on the Verge: He mentions that if there was the iPhone, The Windows Phone and the top of the line Android back 5 years ago all out at the same time, people would probably buy the Windows Phone. He seems to be quite impressed with Metro. Wikipedia: Metro is an internal code name for a typography-based design language created by Microsoft… The...
Read MoreYes Samsung, The Real Apple TV is Coming & That Ad is Less Than The Siri Hack
Samsung appears to be gearing up for the TV wars. Backing it will be Google TV. While they are scrambling and playing an all out offensive on Apple with their “Dude You’re a Barista” campaign, hackers are already showing us how Apple with Siri would look like. Samsung’s offensive: Apple with Siri with Plex as shown by a hacker: I’ve not held a Samsung II S yet. I...
Read MoreMicrosoft OmniTouch Versus iPod’s Voice-Commanded Siri – StarTrek Holodeck & Computer
There’s a demo of Microsoft’s OmniTouch technology on Youtube: While my experience with a related technology (an Xbox360 Dance Central game) has been memorable, I question Craig Mundie’s commentary downplay on the Siri: People are infatuated with Apple announcing it. It’s good marketing, but at least as the technological capability you could argue that Microsoft has had a...
Read MoreLinux Is Like Naruto Learning Jutsu
A warning to you my friend – I’m getting rather technical these days as I unravel the Linux OS that I now use daily. It started months ago when I installed Ubuntu as my default OS at home. The first thing I learned (c/o Allan, my Ubuntu-loving officemate): sudo apt-get install [some app here] It’s like installing an app on an iPod. You search your app and install it with a...
Read MoreWhat if Siri Was put on Apple TV?
The idea of putting Siri on Apple TV reminds me of an episode from Eureka when S.A.R.A.H was introduced: How far away that is from actually happening? Who knows – maybe Jonathan Ive of Apple already has a prototype in their design labs. They’d ask Siri-APple-TV stuff & it would pop back answers to queries. It would save a recording of a baseball game for you and play it back....
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