But for any swiss person or someone having travelled through switzerland it's apparent that the design is from our official swiss rail clock (mondaine), which we have come to love.
Is it licensed or just ripped of?
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2012-09-19
Did apple steal the clock design in iOS 6 for iPad from Mondaine?
The first thing you'll notice after upgrading to iOS 6 on iPad will probably be the clock application. Since it is the biggest improvement for many people not having to rely on other clock applications and stop watches. (No you probably only have to wait for iOS 7 to deliver the weather app).
But for any swiss person or someone having travelled through switzerland it's apparent that the design is from our official swiss rail clock (mondaine), which we have come to love.
Is it licensed or just ripped of?
But for any swiss person or someone having travelled through switzerland it's apparent that the design is from our official swiss rail clock (mondaine), which we have come to love.
Is it licensed or just ripped of?
2012-08-16
Rant: Windows 8
I have just read a very nice piece on somebody's experience in regard to windows 8 and some parts feel like they are my thoughts.
image found on google images: http://i-dothink.com/index.php/windows-8-phone-functionality-spotted/
iOS and MacOSx are definitely advanced in many aspects, but the major improvements are still missing in regards to information connectivity.
The article talks about Dashboard that could have been the windows 8 tiles UI. And I think he's right. I never was able to really make use of the dashboard and today mostly land on it by error. I use the iPad daily between 1 to 5 hours over a 16 hour period, 99% consumption. And clearly the presentation of the information on the main screen is lacking, the integration between apps and data is lacking, best example is try to install a pinterest bookmark, i.e. it should just be natural to click on whatever to share with whatever that's out there.
The windows 8 UI will probably help me avoid going into my top 5 applications all the time. Also notification in iOS and OSx are less than optimal. I want to have all information on one big screen. I don't think the widgets of android are going to do the trick, since most of them take to much screen real estate and have a non identifiable form.
I will install the 90 days windows 8 evaluation version tonight and try to spend another few hours to try and see if I get the same productivity as the author said he does.
Maybe at one point some really good guy will develop an OS where all information can be used in whatever form we like and multiple times in different places but all linked to the same info. As an example the worst thing today is that a reminder is not really a note, not really appearing in the calendar, not really an alarm entry, not being editable by penultimate, not able to print using the papers app .....
Microsoft tried in some office version to actually put tasks onto the calendar at the bottom but not in the calendar. I still crave for this that the tasks will actually be put into the calendar and reflect the actual time spent or whatever I want it to be and if completed will change color, allow tagging and more.
Most probably we won't get most of this for another decade or so, as it took from the perfect Palm Pilot to a somewhat great iPhone. Is it really that people forget this so soon. Everything was here and it took 20 years to improve.
Well here is the link to the article:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/16/3246185/this-is-my-next-windows-8
image found on google images: http://i-dothink.com/index.php/windows-8-phone-functionality-spotted/
iOS and MacOSx are definitely advanced in many aspects, but the major improvements are still missing in regards to information connectivity.
The article talks about Dashboard that could have been the windows 8 tiles UI. And I think he's right. I never was able to really make use of the dashboard and today mostly land on it by error. I use the iPad daily between 1 to 5 hours over a 16 hour period, 99% consumption. And clearly the presentation of the information on the main screen is lacking, the integration between apps and data is lacking, best example is try to install a pinterest bookmark, i.e. it should just be natural to click on whatever to share with whatever that's out there.
The windows 8 UI will probably help me avoid going into my top 5 applications all the time. Also notification in iOS and OSx are less than optimal. I want to have all information on one big screen. I don't think the widgets of android are going to do the trick, since most of them take to much screen real estate and have a non identifiable form.
I will install the 90 days windows 8 evaluation version tonight and try to spend another few hours to try and see if I get the same productivity as the author said he does.
Maybe at one point some really good guy will develop an OS where all information can be used in whatever form we like and multiple times in different places but all linked to the same info. As an example the worst thing today is that a reminder is not really a note, not really appearing in the calendar, not really an alarm entry, not being editable by penultimate, not able to print using the papers app .....
Microsoft tried in some office version to actually put tasks onto the calendar at the bottom but not in the calendar. I still crave for this that the tasks will actually be put into the calendar and reflect the actual time spent or whatever I want it to be and if completed will change color, allow tagging and more.
Most probably we won't get most of this for another decade or so, as it took from the perfect Palm Pilot to a somewhat great iPhone. Is it really that people forget this so soon. Everything was here and it took 20 years to improve.
Well here is the link to the article:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/16/3246185/this-is-my-next-windows-8
2012-03-22
Google Chrome annoyances #2: PDF print and blogger.com data loss
It has been some time that I have been relying on features from Chrome to make life easier, since in the past some of the functionality caused me big headaches.
I still use google chrome and my number one feature is the Omnibar. Everything else just sucks. But there is hope as safari has announced that from 5.2 there will be as well the Omnibar. Horray!
OK here we go:
Clever function, I need it all the time since I want to keep many webpages in PDF form for storage etc. But I couldn't get chrome to create a PDF I can use since it just slices through text and graphics. Something IE2 has done 99 years ago for web page printing.
Everytime I work on blogger.com from google chrome I loose data, the publish and update sometimes works sometimes it doesn't. If I add some line and then maybe another I press publish and nothing happens. If I leave the page data is lost. If from the same machine I use firefox 11 to do the same I never ever have any issue. So I stop using it for this purpose.
I use many different computer vendor systems and their web management software and about 90% of all don't work. With firefox it is about a 10% chance that some old IE page won't work. And with IE it is like 95% of the webpages work but only about 30% are really usable due to speed problems. Most of the extjs pages have big issues.
I still use google chrome and my number one feature is the Omnibar. Everything else just sucks. But there is hope as safari has announced that from 5.2 there will be as well the Omnibar. Horray!
OK here we go:
PDF print
Clever function, I need it all the time since I want to keep many webpages in PDF form for storage etc. But I couldn't get chrome to create a PDF I can use since it just slices through text and graphics. Something IE2 has done 99 years ago for web page printing.
Blogger.com
Everytime I work on blogger.com from google chrome I loose data, the publish and update sometimes works sometimes it doesn't. If I add some line and then maybe another I press publish and nothing happens. If I leave the page data is lost. If from the same machine I use firefox 11 to do the same I never ever have any issue. So I stop using it for this purpose.
General webpage compatibility
I use many different computer vendor systems and their web management software and about 90% of all don't work. With firefox it is about a 10% chance that some old IE page won't work. And with IE it is like 95% of the webpages work but only about 30% are really usable due to speed problems. Most of the extjs pages have big issues.
2012-03-16
Will I buy the new iPad? continued...
After playing around in our local shop I have to say that I forget to put my old iPad2 next to it to have something to compare.
I use my iPad 2 about 2-4 hours a day, i.e. stretched over a 16 hours day. And for me the new iPad did not seem different than what I have:
the weight
If you don't own an iPad already, it will be a sure thing. If you have an iPad 2 you have to have really good arguments and enough cash to hand out. My iPad 2 is not yet a year old.
The new iPad should have come with water protection like the one from liquipel or hzo. And more importantly it should have complete glass and chassis protection. Today this is possible but only with an additional case (another post).
Original Post
http://engineeringmadness.blogspot.com/2012/03/will-i-buy-new-ipad.html
I use my iPad 2 about 2-4 hours a day, i.e. stretched over a 16 hours day. And for me the new iPad did not seem different than what I have:
the weight
- a non issue, had only 15 minutes to play around but it felt good
- same as today, did not notice that it is thicker
- looks a little bit sharper, but I was not blown away. Which is sad because I expected from this single feature a miracle. It looks really great, but I did not feel the urge to buy immediately solely on this.
- feels great and fast but somehow the pictures are a bit wobbly and the video looked a bit grainy. Compared to the old iPad this is incredibly better, just look at the photo in the previous post. This for me is an argument to buy the new iPad but it is not strong enough.
- cannot comment, but the reports say that it will take much longer to load. Just this morning: yesterday I used the iPad at lenght and when I woke up the battery was at 3%. I plugged it in and 40 minutes later I had 42% battery load. I hope that the new one will not take double or more time to load.
If you don't own an iPad already, it will be a sure thing. If you have an iPad 2 you have to have really good arguments and enough cash to hand out. My iPad 2 is not yet a year old.
The new iPad should have come with water protection like the one from liquipel or hzo. And more importantly it should have complete glass and chassis protection. Today this is possible but only with an additional case (another post).
Original Post
http://engineeringmadness.blogspot.com/2012/03/will-i-buy-new-ipad.html
2012-03-10
Will I buy the new iPad?
Draft version 0.1:
In my original post about a possible iPad 3 I listed several things that I would need to be more happy with the iPad in office and private use:
What has been solved in the mean time:
In my original post about a possible iPad 3 I listed several things that I would need to be more happy with the iPad in office and private use:
Touch and pen.
No more notebooks to write into at meetings etc. Must also be as good as Windows 7 Tablet PC recognition of the handwriting, i.e. display the scribble but in the background store as text (makes search much easier). Did I say multilingual? English, German, French, Italian and whatever else it must just be prepared for sentences that are completely mixed.
Currently I tried Pogo stylus and an notebook app but not practical during daily usage. Nowadays I use my finger to scribble something down.
Other features.
Better screen (resolution, brightness, dailight/glare protection, magic OLED), smart cover with keyboard, wireless sync, pdf and epub central storage with all apps access and pdf annotations, Visio for iPad, new Os that does not rely on the apps selection; today I have 7 pages full of apps and groups with apps, it just takes to long to find the right app and switching between apps is also not good. Get rid of the button for accessing the running apps. Gestures a must.
What has been solved in the mean time:
- Wireless sync:
- Yes it is here and it works, I don't have to connect my kids iPod touch to the main computer to get a new song or album on their iPod, Hooray!!
- Now it's that easy that iMom can assign it. (some troubleshooting is still necessary, as some of the devices seem to disappear from the connected list: restart wireless on iPod, restart iTunes on Mac; that usually does the it.)
- Gestures for switching between apps:
- Solution is working great; I even appreciate it more since my iPad home button does not want to work all the time (have been to an apple store and wanted to show them how bad it is and during that time it worked flawlessly, also the slight appearance of yellow (about 1 - 1.5 mm of the screen from the bottom) did not really show up.
What the new iPad solves:
- Better resolution and color gamut, most probably not the glare, daylight resilience
What the newer iOS/apps versions solved:
- iBooks:
- just with the announcement of the new iPad there came an updated version of iBooks which introduced a nice highlighting feature for epub. Just swipe over some text and it automatically gets highlighted. I do that very often in PDFs but not in epubs. And no, they still haven't introduced anything to annotate PDFs. (I use Goodreader, but the UI is not comfortable and efficient to use and I want all my books in iBooks and not spread over many applications, where I sometimes end up with multiple copies.
- Please make it possible for 3rd party applications to access and edit the files in the iBooks part of storage!!
Why Samsung was right to publish the stylus and multitasking comparison:
- The pen:
- yes definitely needed, since I want to get rid of paper notebooks and paper drawings as soon as possible. I was happy with what motion computing provided me with many years ago; I mean what my previous company was able to afford me to test. The device cost around $3500 at that time.
- Today I make do with an Alupen, which is a great product, compared to many styluses that I tested, but it does not really fit my hand and no matter what pen I used I was never able to actually do what I could do on a piece of paper, especially not letter/a4 size. Most of the time I'm able to in landscape mode about 40 characters most, otherwise it is unreadable.
- outstanding task is to test the bamboo stylus for iPad, but I don't expect it to overcome most of the issues that I have today, which I did not have with Windows and Motion Computing
- Also don't forget, that all pen input is useless unless it is run through an OCR. The whole reason of going digital is to be able to search your notes and not only store more notebooks to skim through. Windows did here many years ago a good job, because some application allowed to keep the handwriting but do an OCR in the background.
- Applications side by side:
- another must. I have found out that I'm doing many tasks a day that require me to write some note or do some drawing while I need the PC as input. I.e. only working on the iPad I have to switch many times between the apps, which is possible and quite easy due to the introduced gestures, but a side by side view or even some kind of transparent overlay mode would make me more productive.
2011-03-25
iPad 2 enthusiast warning: Do not buy! Keep iPad 1
I just had the chance to buy an iPad 2 but before I actually said yes I wanted to test my number 1 features that I use.
1) iBooks -> application is slow on iPad 2, almost the same as on iPad 1
I really hoped for a big surprise there (I have 600 epubs and 1300 pdfs on it) mostly Cisco, Infoblox, Infovista et. al. manuals release notes etc.
It's still a drag and pdf annotations that I miss are also not present, i.e. it was clear since the iBooks is independent of iPad versions.
2) camera sucks, the quality is just awful (it's definitely good enough for facetime)
But I want some crisp snappy pictures and videos, but it is just not good.
3) no display improvement. I read a lot of books on the iPad and many times I believe that I have to clean the screen but then I realize it is the iBooks application that renders sometimes the characters less than optimal. Maybe it's on the application.
Still, buy the iPad 2 if you don't have an iPad and you want to use Apple TV 2 with AirPlay, which is now just awesome, since AirVideo can stream while in the background!
It is disappointing from Apple not to be able to really improve and use their muscle to advance the technology, this time the only play catch up. From what I can see the new Galaxy 10.1 is most probably the best, but the software is lacking.
1) iBooks -> application is slow on iPad 2, almost the same as on iPad 1
I really hoped for a big surprise there (I have 600 epubs and 1300 pdfs on it) mostly Cisco, Infoblox, Infovista et. al. manuals release notes etc.
It's still a drag and pdf annotations that I miss are also not present, i.e. it was clear since the iBooks is independent of iPad versions.
2) camera sucks, the quality is just awful (it's definitely good enough for facetime)
But I want some crisp snappy pictures and videos, but it is just not good.
3) no display improvement. I read a lot of books on the iPad and many times I believe that I have to clean the screen but then I realize it is the iBooks application that renders sometimes the characters less than optimal. Maybe it's on the application.
Still, buy the iPad 2 if you don't have an iPad and you want to use Apple TV 2 with AirPlay, which is now just awesome, since AirVideo can stream while in the background!
It is disappointing from Apple not to be able to really improve and use their muscle to advance the technology, this time the only play catch up. From what I can see the new Galaxy 10.1 is most probably the best, but the software is lacking.
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