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User Interface / Usability

Microsoft Surface, Sun Starfire and Apple Knowledge Navigator Videos

May 30, 2007

Yesterday, I wrote about how the “cyberwar” in Estonia seemed rather different from the way William Gibson depicted cyberattacks in his “Sprawl series” novels, most notably Neuromancer. I thought that as long as I was comparing speculations of what future tech would be like against how the future actually turned out, I should tie it [...]

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Microsoft’s Midnight Surprise, Revealed: Microsoft Surface

May 30, 2007

Microsoft’s Midnight Surprise? It’s Microsoft Surface, a large-area screen-and-multi-touch-surface computer. Here are some places to get started:

Channel 10: First Look: Microsoft Surfacing Computing!
c|net: Microsoft hopes ‘Milan’ table PC has magic touch
How the ‘Milan’ table PC was born
TechCrunch: Microsoft Announces Surface Computer

It’s pretty nifty technology, the sort of which we’d been waiting for since Bruce Tognazzini [...]

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Dialog Box of the Week

May 25, 2007

Worse Than Failure asks: in the dialog box below, which button do you click to reset to the factory default settings, and which one to you click to cancel the reset operation?

Even this redesign featuring CB radio slang (I watched Convoy and many episodes of BJ and the Bear as a kid) makes more sense:

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Funny Linksys Dialog Box

May 10, 2007

Many people, myself included, have a Linksys WRT54GS quietly performing yeoman service in their homes, offices and home offices. I’ve never had any trouble upgrading its firmware, but other people have, and they’ve been greeted with this All Your Base-esque message:

Here’s a close-up:

[Images courtesy of my friend, Miss Fipi Lele.]

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