If your interface looks like a book, people will try to turn its pages.
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YouTube wants to be on your TV, but if this interface is any indication, your TV might be more social than its ever been.
The USB-IF (USB interface industry group) briefing at IDF indicated that USB 3.0 is becoming more common and projected rapid adoption this year and next.
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Apparently you cannot comment on how poorly the interface works if you do not use Google Mail.
From the introduction of user-friendly labels like "My Computer, " through the abortive "Microsoft Bob" project (an attempt to build an extra, easy-to-understand layer on top of Windows -- an interface for an interface, if you will), the software giant has been waging a war to get the geekiness out of its operating system.
You can't create iWork files using the iCloud web interface, but if you've enabled sync on your iOS device, documents you create will appear almost instantly on each app's respective webpage.
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However, the package lacks a SCSI adapter, so you'll have to supply your own if you want to use its faster interface.
So if HTML5 is more suitable for light interface enhancements, this leaves rooms for Flash to do what it does best: heavy interface enhancements, vector-based animations, advanced video and audio features, and immersive environments.
Adrian Lund, research director for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cautions that even the most well-intentioned new technology could backfire if designers do not think carefully about the interface between man and machine.
Riak also offers a more traditional protocol buffer interface, which is a better fit if you expect a high volume of small requests.
No one would choose to buy a TiVo or Media Center if it meant you had to use the same crappy interface your cable company's DVR uses.
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And if you ever manage to get stuck despite the thoughtful interface, the left softkey is "Help" in most places. sony Ericsson should get an award for this.
Recently, technology provider IFS Corporation did a survey on ERP users in manufacturing ( Does ERP Mean Excel Runs Production?) Their surprising results showed that new employees (especially under age 40) were very unlikely to take a job with a company if they had to use a complex (usually vendor supplied) interface to a legacy application.
And in any case, if the firms are really worried, they could release most of the interface, keeping back those features that are legally sensitive.
The iTelevision, with a iOS interface, also has the potential to be disruptive, only if Apple introduces it soon, before Samsung and others beat Apple to the punch.
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However, if you're looking for a model using Google's Android interface and are yearning for a well-designed, easily integrated keyboard solution, or want to play more power-hungry games, the Transformer Prime is a good choice, as long as you can tolerate its software limitations.
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If USB does become the dominate display technology the volume increase would make this interface technology hard to beat for some years to come.
The interface is entirely text and music-based -- musicians, if you can call them that, scan an instrument name on the page before sliding over to the notes, which can be played back at different pitches by moving the reader vertically along the line.
Of course, we already knew the iPod would play nice with Sync, and while it doesn't specify if each individual DAP that you cram in this thing will have its own interface to display ID3 tags and the like, it sure seems that the major ones will.
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If you switch to The Old Reader, be warned that there is no mobile interface and that importing your current feeds might be tricky at the moment.
If you're going to be serious about video on demand and your new search interface, you've got to make text input way easier.
Instead of simply being a phone, he envisioned a tool with no buttons, and a natural user interface that we would interact with using our fingers on smooth glass, as if we were directly touching whatever was displayed on the screen.
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If that weren't enough, third-party apps can also hook into the search interface, represented at the bottom of the search results.
Some are even wondering if Apple will introduce a touch-sensitive table tablet that riffs off the iPod Touch's touch-sensitive interface.
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