Archive for February, 2010

Kenneth Wimer

New Toy

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though.

Kenneth Wimer

New Toy

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though.

David Siegel

Improved Window Management Shortcuts Land in Lucid

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):

Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.
Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).
Super↓A↓↑↑ scales all windows on all workspaces.
Super↓D↓↑↑ replaces [...]

Ivanka Majic

Ending Poverty with Open Hardware

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group [...]

Iain Farrell

Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents [...]

Kenneth Wimer

Platform Sprint in Portland

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks ;)

We aim to create discussion, further understanding of user research and establish quality in all aspects of the design process.