Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

It’s the week of “touchy” news. After the very haptic experience with the washable mouse , digitimes reports that Apple might finally bring us the long expected touchscreen iPod as soon as next month!
Apple has placed an order for touchscreen panels with the Taiwan-based company “Wintek”. The display maker will begin shipping capacitive touch screen panels in the second half of 2007, according to their digitimes sources.
Although Wintek denies these reports in a quick press release , they just refer to the confidentiality of their business relations.

The touch screen feature is one of the long held rumors besides the rumor about the now available iPhone which features a multi touchscreen.
When released it is anticipated that the iPod will feature the same mutitouch coverflow abilities as the iPhone.
Earlier this month Apple brushed up their Macbook pro line of laptops with new low power LCD panels and faster processors.

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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