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сам себе клавиатура

4 March 2010 | Biology, Lifeform, Software | No Comments

а вот еще про совершенствование тела:

If you find yourself getting annoyed at the tiny touchscreens on today’s mobile devices, you might be interested in a “new” yet overlooked input surface: yourself. A new skin-based interface called Skinput allows users to use their own hands and arms as touchscreens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin.

  

под рукой

27 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments

Gmail стал еще лучше:

The good news is that 2 labs features will greatly improve Gmail search: “Search Autocomplete” and “Go To Label”. If you have many labels, it’s difficult to find one of your labels, especially if you added the label to the “more” dropdown. “Go To Label” adds a keyboard shortcut that lets you quickly open a label: type “g l” and then type the first letters of the label you want to find.

автодополнение работает совершенно замечательно и подсказывает не только почтовые адреса, как раньше, но абсолютно все (и даже Quick Links в том числе):

The autocomplete feature is not useful only when you want to open a label you’ve created. You can also use it for built-in labels like “unread”, “starred”, “chat”, “buzz”, “muted”. Type the first letters of the word “unread” and you should find a quick link that shows all your unread messages.

If you use Gmail’s advanced search operators, the autocomplete feature shows common values for the operators. Type the “is” operator and Gmail shows a list of built-in labels.

Gmail’s search box lets you restrict the results to messages that have attachments or to messages that include a certain type of attachment. Type “has” and you’ll see a list of options that show messages with photo attachments, documents, videos or calendar events. You can also type natural language queries like: “photos”, “documents”, “attachments”.

The search box is now the quickest way to find messages from one of your contacts: type the name of a contact or only the first letters from the name and you can read all the conversation with that person. If you want to restrict the results to the messages received from a contact, type “from:” before entering the name.

право, who needs mutt when you have Gmail?

  

багфиксы

14 February 2010 | Google, Security, Software | No Comments

а вот и первые результаты:

It’s been an exciting and challenging week for the Buzz team. We’ve been getting feedback via the Gmail help forums and emails from friends and family, and we’ve also been able to do something new: read the buzz about Buzz itself. We quickly realized that we didn’t get everything quite right. We’re very sorry for the concern we’ve caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback. We’ll continue to do so.

ну, и по пунктам:

First, auto-following. <...> So starting this week, instead of an auto-follow model in which Buzz automatically sets you up to follow the people you email and chat with most, we’re moving to an auto-suggest model.

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Second, Buzz will no longer connect your public Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader shared items automatically.

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Third, we’re adding a Buzz tab to Gmail Settings.

как говорится,

xxx: еее! я отловил очередного жука в своей проге! )
xxx: используя лишь свой мозг
yyy: как приманку?

  
  Music : L. Lim - Ensemble fur Neue Musik Zurich - [2002] The Heart's Ear

велосипед

12 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments

ну, и про Buzz заодно — во-первых, предсказания начинают сбываться, вэйв и в самом деле плавно растекается фейсбуком по джимэйлу, а во-вторых, сейчас это все же больше напоминает попытки вскочить в давно ушедший поезд.

так что всех развлечений только очередные кросспосты, но, уверен, игрушка все же заработает (именно по причине своей абсолютной никчемности).

смешно, впрочем, другое:

According to CNet, Google’s Sergey Brin said that one of the most useful Buzz features for him is the ability “to start typing a thought right off the bat without having to worry about disrupting other people… I can throw something out there and the people who are most interested and most relevant tend to pay attention and reply.”

но при этом оповещения нескончаемой толпой падают в ящик, а собственно метка Buzz постоянно мелькает обновляющимеся цифрами — хорошенькое себе “without having to worry about disrupting other people”, все приходится делать самому.

  

кнопка за кнопкой

1 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments

памятуя былое, кричу от негодования: если в Gmail я нажимаю ‘l’ для того, чтобы пометить сообщение, а в Google Reader я должен нажимать ‘t’, но, естественно, жму ‘l’, то что я сделаю с остолопами, которые разрабатывали эти интерфейсы? и что должен с ними сделать тот, кто в Google планирует когда-нибудь объединить эти продукты в один пакет?

ненавижу.

  

совместное проживание

31 January 2010 | Software | No Comments

да, и тонкий клиент, само собой:

Want to run Windows 7 on the new Apple iPad? Citrix says it will soon be possible — at least virtually — using a new version of its Citrix Receiver software.

хоть это и наименее инетерсный аспект, очевидный с самого начала.

  

страницы

31 January 2010 | Internet, Software, Technology | 1 Comment

ну, и еще по мелочи:

  

two in one

23 December 2009 | Google, Software | No Comments

возвращаясь к вопросу о необходимости интеграции Google Wave в Gmail — вот, пожалуйста:

Last week we asked you to share your favorite collaboration tool. We then rounded up the five favorites for a vote, and now we’re back with the most popular choice.

Email and Google Wave were neck and neck both with 30%; ultimately email beat out Wave by a mere 16 votes—0.003% of the vote.

  

творческое решение

8 December 2009 | Software | No Comments

и еще о нем же: тетрис посредством конструкций языка sed.

по-моему, замечательно.

  

лыжи в гамаке

8 December 2009 | Software | 1 Comment

по мотивам обсуждения — игра bastet, оказывается, портирована и для Mac OS X:

s on Penelope @ ~> sudo port search bastet
bastet @0.41 (games)
    Bastard Tetris is an antagonistic Tetris clone

вот описание:

Bastet stands for “bastard tetris”, and is a simple ncurses-based Tetris(R) clone for Linux. Unlike normal Tetris(R), however, Bastet does not choose your next brick at random. Instead, Bastet uses a special algorithm designed to choose the worst brick possible. As you can imagine, playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!