Thursday, November 18, 2010
Die Macht wird euch Wecken!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Joe Hewitt über das iPad bzw. iOS
“A Closed Platform?
Given my concerns about the way Apple runs the App Store, you might expect me to jump on the bandwagon screaming about how Apple is evil and iPad is the death of open computing. Nonsense. My only problem with Apple is the fact that they insist on pre-approving every app on the App Store. The store may not be open, but the iPhone/iPad platform itself could hardly be more open to tinkerers of all ages.
The one thing that makes an iPhone/iPad app “closed” is that it lives in a sandbox, which means it can’t just read and write willy-nilly to the file system, access hardware, or interfere with other apps. In my mind, this is one of the best features of the OS. It makes native apps more like web apps, which are similarly sandboxed, and therefore much more secure. On Macs and PCs, you have to re-install the OS every couple years or so just to undo the damage done by apps, but iPhone OS is completely immune to this.
As a developer, it’s a bit sad losing the ability to come up with crazy plugins and daemons and system-level utilities, but I believe it’s a tradeoff worth making. What people are overlooking is that the Internet is an integral part of the iPhone OS, and it is the part of the OS you can tinker with to your heart’s delight. If you want to invent a new scripting language or background service or something, you’re still totally free to do that, but you’re going to have to run it on a web server. If you want total freedom on the client side, then write a web app. You’re simply no longer going to be able to tempt users into installing software that corrupts their computer.
So, in the end, what it comes down to is that iPad offers new metaphors that will let users engage with their computers with dramatically less friction. That gives me, as a developer, a sense of power and potency and creativity like no other. It makes the software market feel wide open again, like no one’s hegemony is safe. How anyone can feel underwhelmed by that is beyond me.”
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Ja, dieser kleine Roboter gefällt mir :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIlTKoDPGI&feature=player_embedded
Und hier, wie sich iPhone/Android/Blackberry User selbst sehen und von den jeweils anderen gesehen werden…
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Rollstuhlfahrer können laufen!
Das ist echt awesome 
Monday, September 20, 2010
Skateboard für große Jungs
Hoffentlich bald auch im Fun-Park!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
10 Prinzipien für gutes Gestalten
Das “th” vom Museumsdirektor aus Frankfurt einfach überhören…
-> Dieter Rams
How to introduce one of the most influential designers of the 20th century—one whose clear visual language has not only defined product design for decades, but also our fundamental understanding of design’s potential and function? We’re guessing our “Less and More” book and this video podcast interview is a good start.
“Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams” book
http://www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceafb21a24b0f7bc01250bc3ef290067
Friday, June 04, 2010
Flash Player in Javascript
Wow, die Jungs können Flashwerbung per Javascript aufrufen.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Smokescreen-Flash-Player-in-JavaScript-1015325.html