Once in a while I come across something I designed a little while ago which didn’t stand the test of time. The guilt and shame alone forces me to disown any involvement I had with such visual atrocities. After seeing some UI concept videos today posted by UI designer Dave Brinda (who apparently worked with [...]
The Windows Phone team today announced on its blog that they public a beta version of the Facebook Windows Phone app to test with users new features (and a new user interface) before rolling it out to the general public. The new UI makes a departure from the traditional Windows Phone panoramic & pivot controls [...]
I never quite understood what a BlackBerry was suppose to be, especially after the smartphone revolution. For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a BlackBerry Z10 and it has only left me more puzzled where BlackBerry sits in a world of much more capable devices and platforms. The Z10 device is well-built, solid [...]
The https://bing.com has a wildcard certificate that does not include the non-www domain. https://www.bing.com has a certificate for Akamai. Apparently this has been affecting Bing for at least two hours now. This is pretty embarrassing that the Google-killer would misconfigured their SSL certificates. I guess not enough people use SSL search on Bing to warrant [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Microsoft is working on a touch-enabled watch device. This follows rumors Apple and other companies are getting into the wearable computing trend. Microsoft’s previous SPOT FM-subscription smart watch attempt was technically innovative but faced adoption and market challenges. Cancelled in 2008. I really hope some technology transfer from [...]
Once in a while I come across something I designed a little while ago which didn’t stand the test of time. The guilt and shame alone forces me to disown any involvement I had with such visual atrocities. After seeing some UI concept videos today posted by UI designer Dave Brinda (who apparently worked with [...]
