Posted on March 23, 2011, 00:29, by Vincent van Wylick.
Does electrocuting a person so many times lead to different behavior? I’d like to think so. I’m referring to Instapaper‘s Tilt-scrolling of course (see video below), arguably the best feature in the app and for the small iPhone screen I read many articles on. Why does tilt-scrolling work? Because the finger doesn’t get in the [...]
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Justifying the Twitter Trends Bar
Posted on March 5, 2011, 23:54, by Vincent van Wylick.
At this moment, I haven’t read a single positive thing about this new feature on the free iPhone Twitter app. The only tweet that is mildly realistic, is Anyl Dash’s: “Geeks complaining about trends bar on Twittter’s iPhone app seem to think their Twitter use case is the most common one. I suspect it’s not.” [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2010, 11:19, by Vincent van Wylick.
When Firefox, previously called Phoenix and Firebird, launched tabbed browsing (well, after Bloatzilla), I was super-excited and pimping it to all my friends. It’s been a while since I felt this way and, with tab-saving in browsers (which I of course turn on), I tend to choose the browser with the least tabs saved in [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2009, 15:51, by Vincent van Wylick.
…Is if this were possible on it (apologies for the deformation, apparently Windows isn’t good for everything): Concept iPhone keyboard – a composite made out of an iPhone + a Bluetooth Blackberry keyboard I’m actually quite surprised that something like this isn’t possible. The iPhone screen would make a fine portable screen and the touch [...]
Posted on February 7, 2009, 11:43, by Vincent van Wylick.
Dear App-maker and Apple, I appreciate Spaces a lot as a feature on Leopard. I think it makes me more productive, in the sense that I am now completely focussed on my blog editor in space 2, and all the other distracting apps are stowed away in the other spaces. But Spaces isn’t perfect, which [...]
Posted on November 26, 2008, 11:49, by Vincent van Wylick.
Choosy is Mac software, currently in beta, and works as follows: when you click a link… it let’s you choose what browser to open it with. I’m certainly not a typical user, but browsers hijack my time in a number of ways. For one, I tend to have a lot of tabs open in them. [...]
Posted on October 18, 2008, 14:57, by Vincent van Wylick.
Probably not a mainstream user Now, my list is not scientific at all, and is, as usual, meant to be the start of a conversation. What I would do to make it scientific however, is as follows: Talk to experts (hello there, experts ) Based on expert-input, design a survey that measures preferences per demographic [...]