The Firefox 4 Download Manager
Alexander Limi elaborates on how Mozilla plans to improve the download manager in Firefox 4. Lovely (here’s a picture) — I think I prefer this to Google Chromes download shelf.
That Isn't An Interface; That's A Disaster Zone (Asmussen vs. Heilemann)
With permission from Heilemann, here’s a reposting of a debate we had recently. Michael had shared this on Google Reader: Leaked Screenshots of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 - Daring Fireball Icon for the Save button is still a floppy disk, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t sold a machine with a floppy drive for a [...]
Thursdays Mouse Tracks
This is the path my mouse has travelled today. The dots indicate where my mouse took a rest. Dotsize, the rest duration. This is all done using Anatoly Zenkovs Mouse Tracks, a little Java application records your mouse and draws pretty pictures. Some observations: Paul Fitt will be happy to note my excessive use of [...]
Quick Thoughts On Windows Phone 7
Windows just announced Windows Phone 7 (previously known as Windows Mobile 7). Here’s a video, and after that, some thoughts on the offering. Musings: I like how the lock screen is not a slider, but a “cover” you slide upwards. I’m noticing the Internet Explorer icon, and thinking to myself: Why not rebrand Internet Explorer [...]
Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons. There are four buttons1: Back Context menu Home Search While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. [...]
Firefox 4 Theme Mockups
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Stephen Horlander — one of the interface designers for Mozilla — has put up a bunch of really interesting and lovely design mockups for Firefox 4, due late this year. I think I like the app button.