Phew. Got the photoshoot done yesterday, about 500 pics totally; loving the 8GB CF card. Thumbed the pictures through this morning and I’m not super pleased of myself. Some composition and cropping errors and even some problems with focusing, though I’m laying the blame for that on my camera. It seems that it had some problems focusing on black shirt on dimly lit carage, go figure. Oh well, gotta make your mistakes so you can learn from them. On the positive side, the main model was just super, doing her thing like nothing.
I think I have to whip myself to get some gallery running so I can get some pictures up.
Oh, and saw The Dark Knight. I have to say I was kinda disappointed, as I clearly had waaayy too high expectations for it. Quick break-down: Mr. Ledger was just brilliant, one of the best roles EVER. And I do mean EVER-EVER. Bale was surefire and Gary Oldman just doesn’t fail you. But… There’s always a but: I have a problem with Mrs.(?) Gyllenhaal and Mr. Eckhart, I’m sure they did their best and all but with such names as Ledger, Bale, Oldman and Caine I’d give them the same changes as icecube (pick you favourite) in hell. I really had no feelings for either of them, when they were filling the screen I just wanted them to go away to see more of that brilliant Joker. Not to mention the far-out scifi shit that was going on… In times it was just like watching bad episode of C.S.I, I mean come on, cellular transformed to 3D sonar? Producing fingerprings from a bullet which is shattered to million billion pieces and is inside a brick?
All in all, it was a good movie, entertaining even, not to mention the best superhero movie ever made, but the best movie ever, come on IMDb?!
Youre probably smart enough to figure out what in my opinion is a great way for generating that magic buzz around your open source commitment. Yeap, I claim that it has something to do with user interfaces. (Well, isn’t that news)
Three years ago I happened to stumble upon interesting project called ReactOS; a “free version” of Microsoft Windows – open source (blackboxing Windows components) and able to run Windows applications out of the box. Sounds sweet BUT… There’s always a catch. The thing that struck my eyes was the user interface, not because it just was so sweet, far from it. It struck my eyes because it was far from attractive, which in my eyes, was doing good job of destroying the appeal of the whole software. Hence, I decided I wanted to pitch in.
Now, years later I stumbled upon the same project and I even found mockups I made for the project from my harddrive. This provoked some thougths.
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Just have to post this. Want a ultra-light and easy to use tablet under $200? I know I do. Here’s the deal:
Michael Arrington from CrunchGear decided to start a project to create ultra-portable open source tablet. It would would have one button to power up the device, it would fire straight to Firefox with no desktop environment. Low end speakers, mic and web camera would be integrated, touch screen providing control input. Half a gig of RAM and 4 GB SDD included.
They have already in the talks with manufacturer who says it could be produced for ~200$, all they need is custom software to make it all happen. Want to help? Check the link below and go for it!
TechCrunch
Ok. I admit you just might have felt up those knobs (umpf) before but I’m betting it wasn’t your laptops screen? Apparently guys at Griton Labs weren’t happy with the current state either, so what they came up with solution called Sense Surface, which basically enables real world(tm) controllers for digital control tables. Apparently you just smack your knob (not that!) to the screen, at the point where your i.e. digital presentation of rotary switch resides and start turning, and lo’ the digital version follows the movements of your knob. (Still, not that! Though, that would make kinda interesting flight simulator solutions..)
Head up to the full post to see the video of them knobs in action.
Griton Laboratorios ltd
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It’s been tad quiet here lately since it’s my holidays and I went up north to see my parents and friends. Anyways, now I’m back and pondering about new articles. Tad quiet in breaking user interface news.
