Technology Information: 06/10/10

Designing for TV Screen Interaction: Interesting IxDA Thread

Designing for TV Screen Interaction: Interesting IxDA Thread

Designing for TV Screen Interaction: Interesting IxDA Thread

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:23 AM PDT

The IxDA (Interaction Design Association) forum has an thread about designing for TV interaction.  Several IxDA members have shared some resources on this topic.  I've just uncovered the links and resources and thought I'd share them in this post, with a detailed follow-up in a week or so, as I'm also researching topics related to 3D TV.

Maurice Carty recommends the PVR (Personal Video Recorder) report from teehan+lax:
http://teehanlax.com/work/pvr-report/  (you can download the pdf version of the report from the link)

From bauruag, who is a fan of Boxee:

Boxee : http://method.com/#/productui/index/detail/CaseStudy/43 [1]
Time Warner - http://method.com/#/productui/index/detail/CaseStudy/35 [2]
Microsoft Online Media - http://method.com/#/productui/index/detail/CaseStudy/30 [3]

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Definition of Interaction Design

Definition of IxD

"Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond. Our practices are evolving with the world; join the conversation." -IxDA
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Quick Multi-Touch News Links & Pics: GestureTek's 42-inch Multi-touch GestTable; NUITEQ News; 3M's 20 Touch Multi-touch, Visual Planet's adjustable multi-touch surface....

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:28 PM PDT

MORE MULTI-TOUCH
GestureTek News

- GestureTek intros 42-inch multitouch GestTable, your HDTV suddenly turns jealous. (Darren Murph, Engadget, 6/9/10)
"This 42-inch beast of a table contains a multitouch LCD with a lovely 1080p resolution, which means that you could theoretically watch the next installation of the Batman series on the same surface that's holding your cup of joe."   (A 70-inch version will be coming soon...)   GestureTek (Thanks to Seth Sandler for the link!)
NUITEQ News
NUITEQ wins prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe award
N-trig to show NUITEQ's Snowflake Suite with stylus support at SID in Seattle on May 23-28
NUITEQ releases version 1.9.1 of its award-winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite





3M News  3M Touch Systems introduces a 20-Finger Multi-Touch Display (BusinessWire 5/25/10)   The 3M touch screen pictured below uses projected capacitive technology.
3M™ Display M2256PW (22")
VISUAL PLANET News
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Visual Planet's ViP Interactive Foil has been innovatively used by a student from King's School Sixth Form in Rochester, UK to create an aesthetically pleasing and extremely creative coffee table inviting interaction from the family.
NUITEQ's Snowflake Suite now compatible with Visual Planet's Dual Touch Zoom and Rotate Foils
4/2010 - aNUITEQ®, an award winning technology company, announced today that its multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite is compatible with the worlds number #1 touch foil from Visual Planet.

I like the adjustable multi-touch table from Visual Planet.   Details later!
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions (and a side trip of the color strata)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

This is one of the books on my summer reading list.  I planned on buying this book last summer.  I got around to ordering it a few days ago, and today, it arrived in the mail.  


Nathan Yau,  the author of Flowing Data, was responsible for the first chapter, "Seeing Your Life in Data".   I'm a fan of the Flowing Data blog. Nathan shares quite a bit of interesting- and beautiful- information on his blog.  For example, his recent post, Strata of common and not so common colors, 





"The Color Strata includes the 200 most common color names (excluding black-white-grayish tones), organized by hue horizontally and relative usage vertically, stacked by overall popularity, shaded representatively, and labeled where possible. Besides filtering spam, ignoring cruft, normalizing grey to gray, and correcting the most egregious misspellings (here's looking at you, fuchsia), the results are otherwise unadulterated."  - via Stephen, of Weather Sealed


After looking at all of the colors,  I followed Nathan's links and the links from his links (I love colorful rabbit holes!)... and found this graphic about the differences between girls and boys, from Doghouse Diaries, on the xkcd blog:




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Select and copy contents from command prompt to notepad

Select and copy contents from command prompt to notepad

Select and copy contents from command prompt to notepad

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 10:30 PM PDT

In normal case select and copying content from command prompt is not possible. If you try to select particular text from command prompt, your mouse will not select it and no copying will be performed. Select all option in command prompt too will not help in copying content from DOS prompt but a little change in command prompt properties settings will allow us to select and copy content to windows clip board.


Steps to enable selection and copying text from command prompt



To enable data selection and copying in command prompt window follow the steps below.

1. Open Command prompt window

2. Right click on command prompt top bar
Enable text selection and copying in command prompt


3. Click Properties

Now command prompt prompt properties window will be opened. In order to enable selection and copying we need to check Quick Edit Mode and click OK.
Enable quick edit in command prompt and activate text selection and copy paste

Now you will see another window asking whether the changes apply to the current window only or modify the shortcut that started this window.

Activate text selection in command prompt


If you are looking for a way to just activate text selection and copying for the current command prompt window only, you should select Apply properties to current window only. If you like to activate the content selection and copying properties for all time, you should select the option Modify shortcut that started this window. After selecting the right option click OK.


Copy and Paste Text from Command prompt

In order to copy and paste text from command prompt, you should select the desired content using mouse point and either press enter button or use the following keyboard combination [CTRL] + [C].
Content selection in command prompt
Now on notepad (any text editor) you can paste this content.


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N900 Opera Mobile - Review

N900 Opera Mobile - Review

N900 Opera Mobile - Review

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 08:32 PM PDT

When I posted my Firefox Mobile review for the N900 a couple months back many people prematurely left comments asking why it was better than Opera Mobile. Now that Opera Mobile for the N900 has been out for some time, it is even in the repositories now, I figured it was only fair to give Opera it's dues and give an overview of Opera on the Maemo platform.

If you have used Opera Mobile on any other device before then you will find the interface on the N900 very familiar
Opera Mobile is designed for the touch screen interface many devices have and it functions well on the N900. The home screen of Opera Mobile displays nine widget "speed dial" you can set to your favorite websites. Above these is the URL and Google search bar that you will be used to from most desktop web browsers. Across the bottom of the screen are your backwards, forwards, refresh, tabs, and settings button.
When you are viewing a webpage Opera displays full screen, maximizing your viewable screen space. The only parts that are obscured are the lower right hand corner and the lower left hand corner portions of the screen.
When it comes to overall usage Opera is much snappier than Firefox on the N900. It loads much quicker and uses far less system resources when multi-tasking. Another feature that sets Opera apart from other browsers on the N900 is it's excellent portrait browsing mode. Firefox Mobile does not support portrait mode at all and even though with PR 1.2 MicroB (the N900's default browser) supports portrait mode - it does not as of yet have an on screen keyboard when browsing as such (which makes entering text near impossible on MicroB one handed).

Which brings me to my next point about Opera Mobile - the on screen keyboard. All I have to say is: it's fantastic. Seriously, I wish every application on the N900 could use Opera's on screen keyboard, it only takes up half the screen and using it feels much cleaner than the default Maemo on screen keyboard.

While there are many good things about Opera Mobile, it is not all sun shine and roses. The primary thing that keeps Opera from being the only browser on my N900 is largely the fact that it feels very much like a mobile browser. The lack of flash support and it's inability to fully render more than a few webpages keeps Opera from providing the full blown browsing experience I am used to on my N900.

Anyone else been enjoying Opera 10 on their N900 and have some input on the browser?

~Jeff Hoogland

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