Your EULAs analysed, Microsoft’s widg.. gadgets, Ive interviewed, iPod Tube maps, and the upcoming iTunes video store
- EULAlyzer
It reads the EULAs so you don’t have to (you don’t anyway, admit it). Windows-only. But what about its own EULA, eh? - Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise » The Widget-Gadget food fight
So Microsoft is adding “Gadgets” to Vista, like Apple added Widgets to Tiger, copying.. Konfabulator? Or Microsoft, who had the idea ages ago but just never got around to implementing it? - Jonathan Ive / Designer of the Year 2003: Product Designer (1967-) - Design/Designer Information
We have assembled a heavenly design team. By keeping the core team small and investing significantly in tools and process we can work with a level of collaboration that seems particularly rare. Our physical environment reflects and enables that collaborative approach. The large open studio and massive sound system support a number of communal design areas. We have little exclusively personal space. In fact, the memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
Fascinating interview by the Design Museum. I found Ive to be very intense, but approachable. Just wished I could have watched him work.
- iPod Subway Maps - New York, London, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC Subway Maps for your iPod Photo!
Hey, it seems like the iPod really is becoming a platform - Tube maps have long been a feature of Metr0 on Palm - fscklog: ‘Gift Video’ in iTunes 5 [Update_2]
Hidden icons in iTunes 5 show that yes, there is a video store on the way. Mmm, how soon now?
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Apple's video iPod comes nearer... at least online (22 July 2005; score: 104.14%)
- Microsoft packages, and fixing the iTunes Music Store (someone else did) (11 March 2006; score: 73.77%)
- Those video iPod announcements analysed (15 October 2005; score: 70.87%)
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September 20th, 2005 at 11:21 am
>Or Microsoft, who had the idea ages ago but just never got around to implementing it?
Charles,
I’ve always thought widgets/gadgets etc are just the modern day equivalent of desk accessories as found on the very first Mac. Somehow their simplicity got lost and sometime we just stopped using them. Apart from the obvious calculator d/a (widget/gadget), there were things like calendar and address book d/a’s. In fact, about 50% of the widgets I have are the same as ones I had as D/As including Tile game, world clock etc. You needed (some of) them, because you could then run just one app at a time, so this gave you some utilities without having to quit. The key differences now are that they can be connected (live) and that at least on Mac OS X they live in a separate space rather than around your desktop (a negative?)
Oh, and the other key difference is that, then, they used to fit within the 128KB of RAM. Now, they barely work with my 512MB RAM! I can’t really use them.
What goes around comes around?