Technology Isn't Perfect
Nothing in the world is perfect, technology neither.
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“No More Ticker” - Remove the new Facebook ticker on Google Chrome
I just made a Chrome Extension to remove the new -and annoying- Facebook Ticker!! :)
To get started, download Google Chrome -if you don’t already have it- then download the extension from here :
→ Download the extension
Once this .crx file downloaded, you just have to open it with Google Chrome.. & follow the installation process.
Enjoy!! :)
PS: Yep, I know that there are some extensions on the Chrome Webstore that do the same job.. but since Facebook is a “sensitive” website.. I couldn’t trust all those extensions.. so I decided to make one myself :D
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Break time!! Let’s have some fun :)
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Two Interfaces, One Future | The Future Of Computers and Mobile Phones User Interface - Part II
What if your Phone replaces your PC?
Photo credit: iPod Touch/iPhone dock, made of bread - Alex Efimov.
I know many people will definitely say “no!!!”, without taking any time to think about it, and those people are programmers, designers, geeks… They need powerful computers and they’ll with no doubt shift their cool i7 computers with “simple” mobile phones :P.
As we see, smart phones are being more and more powerful and tasks like text editing, email, web browsing… - which are the most used activities- are as cool to use in the phone as in the PC. Except the fact that using a real keyboard to write is more comfortable ;) .
So the solution would be to create a kind of dock for mobiles that makes it possible to connect to a set of display screen, mouse and keyboard. This solution is most likely to be possible. In deed, many concepts present this kind of technology: Mozilla Seabird, Microsoft Mobile Surface.
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Two Interfaces, One Future | The Future Of Computers and Mobile Phones User Interface - Part I
Computers are now touchable, but.
Photo credit: Evernote - Johan Larsson.
Let’s forget the title a second and focus on this date: January 2007. Do you know what this date refers to? Uh? No, the earth didn’t stop spinning that month… :)January 2007 refers to 2 things actually. On January 9, 2007, Apple introduced a product that gave a real meaning to the word “touch”: the iPhone. With the iPhone and its amazing touchable screen, people discovered a new way to use their phones, to play games and to connect to each others.
But, two days before the official announcement of the iPhone, another touchable product was announced, but this time by another company: Microsoft. On January 7, 2007 , Bill Gates introduced the first touchable desktop PC: HP TouchSmart, which can be used as a normal computer or as a touchscreen.
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Technology Isn’t Perfect
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That’s all this blog is about.You may have seen products, apps or web sites that left you amazed by their usability, their design or their utility. But if you take some time to think about each of them, you’ll certainly find something to change, to add, you’ll certainly find something you don’t like or find useless. And then you think that maybe we could have this menu gone and replaced by something else, maybe a button that could be removed, a new functionality to be added…This blog is about all those “maybes” that keep coming in our minds, about those “personal bugs” -I’ll comeback to it later- that need a correction.
In the technology field - as well as in every domain - users are always complaining, they’re never fully satisfied by the product they are using. By this, I mean that depending on their needs, they’ll certainly want to change somethings.. and if you ask them how the product could look like, or what changes we can make to improve it, the answers will be different, because each user have his personal vision of the improvement depending on his needs, habits…
Thus, in every product, users can see things that may need a change or improvement - that I called “personal bugs” earlier- and this depends on every single user (needs, habits..). Those bugs are special, because if we take the best of them, and discuss all those ideas, they can lead to create new content, they can help to innovate.
This is why I made this blog, to share all those ideas and put them all together that we can discuss them, and bring them to life if we can or helping other people do so.
Don’t forget to follow this blog ;) , you can also get the latest news on twitter @techisntperfect.Regards,
Amine
