As a new years resolution I decided to start a Photo per Day project (taking and publishing a photo per day, ending with 365 photos when the project is done), as a way to learn more of photography and to document my stay here in Austria. As it happened, I basically fell ill the next day and spent 4 days in bed, hence the floor fell off from the project. Not wanting to give up I decided to morph the project a tad, knowing that I prolly am not able to take a picture every day (hangovers, sloth, younameit..). Thus the project became 365 Photos; The aim is to take and publish 365 photos, and do it in the spirit of Photo per Day project, meaning that every picture is not going to be perfect, if I take a picture I’ll prolly use it.
So, I will be posting the results here. Check out the next post for photo no. 001.
For some time now people (analysts?) have been predicting the death of a computer mouse, by touchscreen and lately by multi-touch. I’m, however, going to claim that both of those technologies are absolutely outgunned by a simple Logitech. And as a cherry on the top, I’m going to give my take on the computer mouse killer.
Why touch-technology has lost already
The statement that simple touch technology is going to be replacing the mouse is just simply dimwitted. Why? Simply because they are used in two completely different context: Whereas touch-screen rock the handheld world, computer mouse reigns as the sole emperor of the desktop computing. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love touchscreens and even multi-touch, however, neither of them have the power or the ergonomics of even the simplest 5€ mouse, when it comes to desktop computing. Just think of the time you use your computer daily; 2 hours? 4 hours? For me it would be something like 8-10 hours. Now, keep your hand pointed to the screen, as you would be clicking a button on it, and see how long you can go. Now, do the same test with the mouse. See the difference? On continuous use, mouse wins hands down. Sure, touchscreens are intuitive but when it comes to desktop use, they just suck. Unless. And this is big if, unless the whole paradigm of desktop computing changes to something drastically different.
Then what?
Continue reading “Killing the mouse. And no, it’s not touchscreens.”
