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Getting your hands on Apple’s iPhone
Another Apple marketing frenzy has led to the UK bracing itself for the launch of the iPhone tomorrow. The Carphone Warehouse is expecting large queues and Scotland Yard are warning customers to hide their new handsets so that they don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Tech News, Technical
Tagged apple, bill buxton, direct manipulation, hand gestures, human-computer interaction, I/O, iphone, multi-touch, steve jobs, usability, user experience
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Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?
When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates when the young girl, Lex, looks at a computer screen and says: “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.” At … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged computers, direct manipulation, future, jules verne, jurassic park, linux, minority report, Musings, science fiction, tom cruise, unix
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