Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
Appsfire lève 2,5 millions d’euros et dépasse les 2 millions de téléchargements
WebBuzz du 19/05/2017: Un drône capable de rattrapper une balle au vol-Fetching Omnicopter
Alors qu'un des leaders de la vente en ligne annonce qu'il lance des recherches pour proposer à ses clients d'être livré par des drônes, l'IDSC (Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control) à Zurich présente un drône autonome capable de récupérer une balle en plein vol et de la ramener.
So what do we try to offer customers to be delivered by drone, the IDSC (Institute of Systems and Dynamic Controls) in Zurich presents a stand-alone drone capable of recovering a bullet in full flight And to bring it back.
WebBuzz du 03/11/2015: Un drône autonome évite des obstacles-Autonomous drone avoid obstacles
L'évolution de la technique permet maintenant de faire voler des drônes à près de 50 km/h de manières complètement autonomes. A l'aide des ces caméras stéréoscopiques et des ces processeurs, il "voit" et analyse en temps réel son environement et adapte sa trajectiore. Enfin, comme le code est sous licence open source, vous etes en mesure de pouvoir faire exactement la même chose.
Developments in technology now allow drones to fly at nearly 30 mp/h completely autonomous ways. With the help of these stereoscopic cameras and these processors, it "sees" and real-time scanning its environment and adapts its trajectiore. Finally, as the code under open source license, you are able to do exactly the same thing.
Apple Announces iCloud, Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote
Apple has confirmed maybe the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley: it’s been working on a cloud service, and will announce it at the June 6 Worldwide Developers Conference.
So now we know annual developer’s conference will unveil “iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” but we don’t know yet what it is, or what exactly will reside at the domain name it may have bought for $4.5 million in April.
WebBuzz du 20/02/2015: Nouvel an chinois mélange de tradition et de technique-Chinese new year mix of tradition and technology
La chinese est pleine de contrastes extrèmes. Pour le nouvel an chinois, il est de tradition de faire exploser des petards pour éloigner les mauvais esprits. Et personne ne déroge à la règle. C'est le cas de cette famille qui a ajouté un drone ! Et voici le résultat...
The chinese is full of extreme contrasts. For Chinese New Year, it is customary to blow up firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. And no exception to the rule. This is the case of this family who added a drone! Here is the result ...
WebBuzz du 15/07/2016: démonstration des capacités des traitements vidéos-What CGI can do now
Avec la puissance surdéveloppée des processeurs, les effets vidéos ne connaissent presque plus de limites. Voici un exemple avec ce petit clip des capacités de transformations et d'animations. incroyables.
With overdeveloped processing power, video effects hardly know no bounds. Here's an example with this small clip transformation capabilities and animations. incredible.
Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...











