State of Technology #62

#at_other_places –

• Most delightful RSA animate on ‘Power of Networks’
  
• Voice recognition – coming soon to your TV. No remotes needed.

• The first game designed entirely on iPad;  The interface could be your mind – Mindsky makes games you can influence by thinking

• Internet Trends 2012 –Android phone adoption has ramped up 4x iPhone and others

• Virgin America’s safety video is a lesson how designing a mundane compliant behavior could be made fun

#architecture – Mechanics and meaning behind ol’ Dial-up Modem sound

#code – Entire source code for Doom3 has been released

#design – “Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?”

#essay – Inside story of the death of Palm and webOS

 

#mobile – iPhone fonts should be a tad smaller than iPad fonts. Why? Because one holds iPhone closer!

#saas – Do hashbangs (#) belong in the URLs?

#service – 20 Lines of Code that will beat A/B testing

 

#social – A place where deleted tweets go to .. live forever after

 

#tool – Are you getting tired at work? Here is a comparison of the best standing desks available.

#tweaks n’ hacks –Build a complete website on iPad

 

#etc

 

• Check-out the museum of endangered sounds (ol’ dial-up modem etc)
• How much would it cost you to print out the ENTIRE internet?

#parting_thought – “Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.” – Jonathan Ive