tfincannon

I might be able to use Hype for a client project to replace a Flash animation. But I need to know what versions of Internet Explorer that Hype animations will work with (most likely using explorercanvas). I couldn't find browser compatibility information on the website.

iPad might enable a paid content model that works. It has a frictionless payment system that handles small transactions. iPhone OS offers more robust interaction capabilities than web technology.

Most importantly, the public is accustomed to paying for apps. Paid content doesn't work on the web because people expect it to be free. Consumers view apps as objects, more like books or magazines, which they expect to pay for.

There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel. What makes iPad really interesting to me is that we may be able to invent new ways to interact with software. The iWork (Numbers) demo in the iPad keynote shows some possibilities directly relevant to your point about Excel.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/inde... [starts at 1:05:40]

If the skimmers transmitted the stolen data via Bluetooth, wouldn't the receiver have to be within 30 feet? That would seem to make it easy to track down.

If "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", where does that leave us?

If this story was actually about an "error over data on rising sea levels", it would be interesting. It's only a minor factual mistake that is easily checked and corrected.

The important story is that the change in sea level rolls up many other effects into a single indicator of the extent of global warming, and that sea level is rising faster than IPCC models predict.

Where's the expanded multitouch gesture vocabulary from the FingerWorks technology they acquired? That would have made iPad special. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041628

Over the weekend, Flurry detected iPhone apps with their analytics embedded running on a device with a tablet-sized screen. That makes it very likely the tablet is running iPhone OS.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074409

This article has the first evidence I've seen that the Apple tablet will have a large gesture vocabulary. It will be derived from the FingerWorks technology that Apple acquired in 2007. I used the FingerWorks keyboard for a year. The gestures were highly productive, and I've been hoping they would end up in the Apple tablet.

Wow, this is great! Worth paying for even though KeePassX is free.

It's not a "toy", it's a "minimum viable product".

Does anyone know if the speech recognition for text fields is done onboard the phone, or uploaded to Google?

I find the new Swype soft keyboard is much faster on Droid than the hardware keyboard or any of the other soft keyboards. It's even faster the best hardware keyboard I have used, the Treo 650. Swype takes an entirely new approach of tracing over the keys instead of pressing them.

http://www.androidcentral.com/download-beta-version-swype-an...