This is a 3:30 footage demonstrating some multi-touch interaction experiments. I find it very interesting, I hope you’ll enjoy it.

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It’s been a month since Windows Vista has been released to public. At that time, I was presenting you with a forecast on how Vista will overcome XP in the next years.

The figures were right, after a month of worldwide availability, most tech guys agree that Vista isn’t yet ready to replace the eXPerience. The main problem isn’t caused by the operating system itself, it’s caused by the software that comes along with it and the dependencies. Read the rest of this entry »

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Have you ever been in the hurry and misstyped a web address? What was the result? Another page, or no page at all. There are a lot of reasons for a misspelling. Some occur because you are in a hurry and your fingers are faster than your brain, or the other way around.

Omissions as in Googl or permutations of two characters as in Goolge are a typical result of such processes. Other possibilities are related to the exceptional spelling of Google. Google is based on the word Googol, a mathematical definition of a very big number – the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros. As it is such an uncommon word it’s normal to either misspeak or mishear or misinterpret it. There are local differences, in Germany the most common misspelling is Googel. Contrary to the English language, where Goggle is the dominant keyword, in German language we find a more balanced distribution of keywords.

Besides single keywords like Goggle or Gogle there is a noticeable amount of queries including combinations like www.google.com or just google.com, thus producing similar misspelled/typed combinations like www.goggle.com or gogle.com. Not all of this queries derive from direct searches via search engine forms, a significant part comes from browser and toolbar redirects in case of negative domain name resolving.

It seems Google thought about all these options and redirect every above mentioned request to their correct homepage.

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After Knox’s article telling us where are mobile phones heading, I thought I would show you all where are they heading FROM.

Cell phones. Nowadays, everyone has one. At least one, actually. Their history can be traced to some devices that would go unrecognized in the GSM world today, so I’m not going to present you with the early early years of GSM technology. Mobile rigs were the beginning of mobile phones, along with taxicab radios, two way radios in police cruisers, and so on. But those are not quite important, so I’m going to skip directly to what has concerned us from the beginning.
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Isn’t it cute? Now, let me tell you a few things about it. First of all, it’s not real, or at least not yet. The “Nokia Open” would be a cell phone that opens like a fan with a “scrollable touch screen,” which seems to be an essential-yet-nonexistent item that would need to be invented in order for this to work. Quite of a paradox, ain’t it?

With the push of the button, the phone would open up allowing you to navigate and use its functions. This really is futuristic, but not really that far away as flexible displays via e-paper will be implemented in the next decade among the electronic equipments.

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Console war – PS3 vs Wii?

* Nintendo Wii? (81%)
* PlayStation 3? (19%)

Total Votes: 72

It seems that these results confirm the articles and debates on the Internet. Wii is four times more popular than the PS3.

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Heh, I have finally heard me saying that. We’re browsing an Internet practically dominated by Google and its dependencies, so practically there’s a (very) limited number of things that Google can’t do, and since Google is the number one search engine, the list of what it can’t find should not even exist ;)

Google can find anything, my friends said throughout the time. Wrong, I get to say to them today. While I was unable to provide a relevant example of what I couldn’t find with Google, here’s Wayne Radinsky coming to help me and us all.

His website has a community driven database of a very simple concept, with information filed into categories. You need to be a registered user to add an entry, but you can simply browse through the content while being anonymous.

That being said, I’ll let you explore Google’s weaknesses, although I guess it’s just a matter of time since the website itself is being indexed by Google.

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