Almost one week elapsed since I received my Google I/O gift: the so-called “Nexus One”.
As any good geek, I already installed a couple of (not to say too much) applications to discover the droid world.
For the moment, I’m not a big fan of the Market application itself, because I found it to be not so handy to find application. Indeed, there are no sorting feature but only predefined sections, no auto-completion when you search an application by its name, the listing is not self-explaining (name+company but no quick descr). I hope these “small bugs” will be addressed soon…
Anyway, here is a quick short list of applications I installed during last week (and I intend to keep):
When reading all the buzz about Google Buzz, I was shocked by some similarity between the buzz logo and some old “evil” company logo…
What do you think ?
Anyway, I’m still waiting for the buzz activation in my Gmail but I had some fun yesterday on the iPod touch. Looks like Google Buzz may overcome twitter, facebook and everything else by aggregating all the mess, fuzz, buzz in one “clean centralized place”.
Looking at my blog, I feel some need (or the urge) to have a new fresh design… This one is getting old and I think a clean design for 2010 could be a quickstart.
If you have ideas, inspiration sites or suggestions feel free to comment. In the meantime, I will start to look for a great new design compliant with my actual mood
I guess by now everyone on the (geek) planet has heard about the Apple (r)evolution of the tablet pc.
Tablet pc have been around for quite some time, but no one really make it a big success. Maybe because of the weight, the aspect, the transportation problem (too big for a jean’s pocket), aspect ratio, look & feel, ergnomy, …
In these challenges, Apple is usually quite good at making WOW effect products. And somewhat yesterday the whole mac planet was waiting for such a big bang as when the iPhone came out. And yeah, Apple did a fine job, but not a great one as expected… This iPad is finally a nice giant iPhone without GPS and camera but including iWork (and iBooks).
This morning I have a bittersweet feeling that I can pinpoint to some missing or disappointing elements:
A thick border ! Why after the slim and tiny MacBook Air (and the whole MacBook family), did Apple release such a large ugly border screen ?
Let’s go back to the … past 4×3 aspect ratio ? I mean everybody is now HD or Full HD in a cinema compliant 16×9 aspect ratio.
No webcams… no comments…
iPhone OS based huh! I get the technical/battery life/optimization idea, but why push so much work in porting iWork on iPhone OS. Or on the other hand why not offer the full Mac OS X SDK on a tablet computer ?
No GPS = No Location Based Service… sad again.
All these factors, let me really think that the iPad is finally an iDraft. A firts version not fully polished as we were used to by Apple and Steve.
EDIT: I just find out the mashable iPad missings article. I should add SD cards and HDMI in my list…
The Apple iPad
The Wavyx MacPad
Here is my ideal iPad: a nice thin 16×9 device. You’ll notice the front webcam is upside, but I’m not it wouldn’t be better on the left side to ease video conferences with multiple contacts. On the back, I put 2 webcams. I know it’s too much but I was thinking about some Augmented Reality application that could better capture the 3D environment with 2 webcams. So let’s say it’s an optional feature
By the way, it has a GPS and it’s of course Mac OS based, so more a MacPad or MacTouch.
PS: I still searching through the specs, to find how much RAM is bundled but I hope it’s enough to have bigger application with less memory problems as on iPhone.
Yeah I’m “Back to Blog” And after some (not so) light introspection, I finally defined my 2010 resolutions or objectives as you like.
To me 2010 is a really nice number in itself, kind of binary or at least it’s a nice pattern. (all this would have been better in 1010, or not…).
Anyway, for this year I’ve summarized my resolutions in 3 themas:
OPEN
SOCIAL
PASSION
First I was gonna details these bullets but now I think they are really clear and suffices to themselves.
So feel free to ask for details, if you’re unsure about what I mean. In the meantime, let’s be an open social passionate electron in the Web Gen !
Here is a video I really like. You can see air traffic around the globe and in some way, this feels really organic to me.
Planes are like ants trying to find food and auto-organizing themselves (not necessarily with the shortest path). This recall me of the Ant colony optimization for solving TSP problem.
Here are some resources for the ACO optimization for TSP problems: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3689188/Ant-Colony-TSP-Optimization, http://www.ugosweb.com/Documents/jacs.aspx or http://www.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf.
