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A Brief History of Pads, Part 3: Fantasy and Reality 18 Jun 2010 | 11:03 pm
In this third part on the history of pad computing, we’ll look at one last early dream and the first touch of reality. 1987 – Knowledge Navigator During the John Sculley years, Apple loved a good co...
A Brief History of Pads, Part 2: Touch me! 22 May 2010 | 12:13 am
Second part in a series on pad computing. This time, we’ll look at early touch and pen based interfaces that weren’t portable. 1963 – Sketchpad Sketchpad was a revolutionary early CAD program that a...
A Brief History of Pads, Part 1: Distant dreams 14 May 2010 | 10:21 pm
This is the first part in a series on the history pen and touch driven mobile computing. We begin with a look at some pioneering ideas that fueled later actual devices. 1966 – Star Trek Star Trek in...
Automatic avatar resizing and cropping with Drupal 29 Apr 2010 | 10:57 pm
One common problem with Drupal is that users can set up avatar images of any shape. You can set an upper size limit, but you can’t make all the images the same size. Not by default, that is. The good...
The Missing Middle Documentation 22 Apr 2010 | 01:58 am
I spent much of yesterday looking at SproutCore, which seems to be a rather nice open-source web app framework. While getting to know the framework, I came up against a problem I’ve seen in many simil...
How to fit your website for the Apple iPad 13 Feb 2010 | 03:51 am
Important note, updated: Apple has released very limited information about the iPad at the Safari Dev Center. This article is written on the assumption that previous guidelines for Safari on iPhone OS...
Lost Tech: How Microsoft didn’t launch the ebook revolution 6 Feb 2010 | 01:53 am
In 2010, Microsoft launched an electronic reading revolution. A unified publishing platform that works on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, complete with crisp typesetting, inline annotations and ...
(Not) scraping Wikipedia – the easy way 2 Feb 2010 | 02:52 am
Q: How can I download an HTML-formatted Wikipedia article without navigation and theming? A: Try this URL pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=Helsinki Today, I spent ove...
The Apple Tablet: Web side story 26 Jan 2010 | 02:25 am
I’m going to make an unusual prediction for the Apple Tablet: it’ll be a great platform for web apps. How do I know this? Because of what’s on the iPhone right now. At WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs infamousl...
The Apple Tablet: Look at the size of that thing! 23 Jan 2010 | 01:44 am
With the Apple tablet reveal less than a week away, it’s high time for me to engage in some idle speculation. The two questions on my mind are: what resolution is the tablet, and how will apps be made...
