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- Journal: BigMacDecember 10 2008
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We have dreamt about our own music Turboserver for quite a while. Dreams come true as you know! We have finally made ourselves a luxurious music storage available to all employees via LAN and iTunes. It would take a month of continuous listening to appreciate the entire music collection! But that's not all…Our server happens to have a huge screen. At first, you may think it's an odd thing to have.
But take a closer look to realize that it is a true entertainment center! Any of our Turbomilkers can play Wii or Xbox while others are listening to the music.
Turboserver's configuration:
- PowerMac G5 Dual (Mac OS X Leopard + iTunes)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 (60 GB)
- Nintendo Wii
- Sony 40" LCD TV
Office dwellers are happy!
- Downloads: Zoom-eyed creaturesNovember 26 2008
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If you ever get a feeling of being followed, this is quite normal. Do not worry, it's not paranoia. You are being followed by a team of picked zoom-eyed creatures. They have popped their eyes and are full of attention.
Turbodesigner Olesia Kozlova have drawn a set of icons with the nicest goggle-eyed creatures — champions of staring contests. You are free to do whatever you want with them but be careful not to let them subdue your mind. Take this hypnotoad to start with.
- Cookbook: What icons are forNovember 5 2008
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You would not believe it but in 1985 Apple asserted an idea in its developers' guide to replace text messages with icons wherever possible. As though icons would be more clear to a novice user than words. Of course this is bollocks. It is much easier to express any idea in words.So, unless you are designing an interface for a graphics editor, a picture is worth a thousand words as the saying goes.
Lower 6 icons clearly display the results of using the respective tools.Such approach is also applicable in CAD/CAM and architectural software as well as other WYSIWYG-based interfaces. But how often do we, humble GUI designers from Samara, engage in such projects? I confess, not really often. The truth is that in the modern digital world we more often deal with things without any visual incarnation at all.
Real-life example: Forming document icon for a legal software package. It describes a document that contains a reference to another document to be replaced with a newer edition by making such and such changes. Great, is it not? It is hard to describe it even in a full-size sentence. And it is even harder to grasp at once. Perhaps
- Journal: Our Clients is all we gotOctober 31 2008
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Our clients are the most wonderful people. We are grateful to them for becoming what we are in our market arena. As a token of appreciation we made this page devoted to them. (Frankly, we that page before but we have completely reworked it and while doing that we felt kind of nostalgic.)
- Cookbook: Supermarket interface or Cart 2.0October 29 2008
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When I visit a supermarket I sometimes engage in somewhat indecent activity amidst endless shelves with groceries. I like to peek into other people's carts. I observe what other people buy. But it is not some useless habit. Sometimes I happen to like some buyers and I pick the same products from shelves. This way I have discovered for myself a range of tasty products and many extraordinary but useful things.And what if we add some web 2.0 into a conventional supermarket? What if we turn it into a hi-tech activity. Clearly one of the main attributes of a supermarket is a cart. So let's start the cart evolution.
A cart consists of a handle, a basket and a set of wheels — we are going to leave all that but add some new features to make it contemporary and even more useful:
- A touch-screen. In the future all the things will have touch-screens;
- We build in a wi-fi adapter or its analog to wire all the carts into a LAN;
- We label all the products with tags that can be read remotely. We place a scanner inside the cart to identify whether a product item is inside the cart once we place it there.