Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Can you picture yourself gently rubbing over the surface of your mouse, holding it under the faucet, dry it and use it again? Yeah, ok if you look at your mouse you probably can. So can Belkin. They now announced a fully washable and thereby desinfected mouse. Perfect for bacteria phobics and your clean girlfriend.

Who thought that the days of the command line have been counted, might be wrong.

In the days of iPhones pooping popping up on every website and impressing the crowd with an unique user interface, Alex Faaborg, who recently joined Mozilla as User Experience Designer, wrote some interesting things about it on the mozilla blog.
I use the Mac application Quicksilver myself a lot – the combination of command line (or as geeks refer to as “CLI” – go and look it up yourself) and GUI is the most powerfull I’ve experienced so far for the shorter commands. For longer commands I tend to go back to the terminal (started with quicksilver of course).

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I bet by now everyone of you have heard about Microsoft’s Surface.
We’ll it sure looks nice, but I’m almost certain that a good share of the “innovative” part is all made up and fake.
Eg. take the automatic syncing with the wireless digital camera.
How on earth are they able to “just detect the camera” (I mean, in a safe, secure and reproducible way).
Maybe it works with that camera, but what about all the others? Ye.. well, nice ‘vision’.
Happy camera tagging, go print some stickers.

Anyways, the multi-touch input is by all means nothing new and revolutionary, as pointed out in this post at the donationcoder.com forums. (direct link)

You can even build your own like some folks at c-base, berlin, germany did:
(that’s btw housetier and myself playing with it, frickin’ neat)

But there’s one thing you have to give Microsoft credit for:
PR.