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When the iPhone Calls, You’d Better Answer

March 26th, 2010

Ever since Apple released the iPhone 3G and opened it up to third-party developers we’ve seen thousands of fantastic applications hit the app store. Granted, we’ve also seen thousands of mindless games and time-wasters. But developers are also creating good applications that make use of the iPhone operating system (OS), the device’s hardware features, peripherals, [...]

Five Critical User Interface Design Mistakes

December 17th, 2009

Anyone involved in creating good, effective user interface experiences—whether on the web, in software applications, or on a variety of other devices—must keep the needs of the user at the forefront at all times. Ultimately, it’s the end user that will determine whether your site, software, or product is worth their time—or their money. With [...]

Facial Recognition and Augmented Reality Hardware: The Future of Facebook?

November 10th, 2009

While researching Augmented Reality (AR), one of the newest technologies in the lands of interactive advertising, online gaming, and the like, I came across an interesting (though very crude) presentation on the possible integration of augmented reality within Facebook through facial recognition. In short, the author explained that if the facial recognition technology that currently [...]

Save reading long articles for later with Instapaper

June 23rd, 2009

If you’ve never heard of Instapaper, it’s a fairly useful and relatively unknown pseudo-bookmarking tool that allows you to quickly save the long articles you may come across on the web on a daily basis for later reading. In other words, it “facilitates easy reading of long text content.” A lot of times, with the [...]

AOL logo an ad for TurboTax

April 16th, 2009

If you happened to visit AOL.com yesterday, you may have noticed a slight difference in the company’s logo in the upper left. To coincide with the end of tax season, AOL agreed to turn its company logo into an ad for TurboTax. The new logo featured TurboTax’s red and white check mark icon in place [...]