Posts Tagged ‘ipad’

Page Flips Are Better Than Infinite Scroll

Monday, March 15th, 2010

I find my success rate with tracking my scroll position of long form content less than 100%. Page flips, on the other hand?  I have never lost my place … Page flips, when done right, are more usable than infinite scroll.

Dude has a point. Note: he’s talking about scrolling on the iPad. Not iPhone.

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Is the iPad Giving Tech Geeks Future Shock?

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

Fraser Spiers published a brilliant article on how the iPad (and iPhone OS) are a complete revolution in computing, and how some of the nefarious geek elite have their days numbered.

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The End of the Desktop OS?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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“It’s just a big iPod touch” is the new “less space than a nomad”. The Mac had a great run, but this is the end of the desktop OS.

I don’t generally agree with such grandiose statements on principle, but I tend to agree here—it feels like it is the beginning of the end for the desktop OS. Will I be typing updates on a desktop 5 years from now? Totally doubt it. For most folks, I’m sure this is going to be a great replacement for their desktop. For pixel geeks like me, we’ve got a bit of a wait ahead of us.

(Quote via @atebits)

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