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Palm Pre Video Capture Test

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Great news for Palm Pre and Pixi owners on Sprint! With the latest free WebOS update, you can now use the device’s camera to capture video. While the quality is acceptable for that of a mobile device, what’s really handy is the simplicity of sharing your video content in the cloud. A simple tap and [...]

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Become a Virtual Tourist with 360Cities.net

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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360Cities is a breathtaking virtual tour, showing thousands of panoramas made by hundreds of photographers. The stunning photos are interactive, spherical panoramas which beg you to explore them. This can be done by dragging your mouse around, and zooming in and out. For best viewing, use full-screen mode and for alternative views, right-click to expose the views menu. [...]

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10 Books to becoming an Idea Generating Machine

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Good ideas are the foundation for all effective products, experiences and story-telling. And yet coming up with these gems can be one of the toughest parts of the creative process. These ten books will help put you in the right mindset to start generating original ideas. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | [...]

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Top 5 Visual Search Engines

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Visualizing search results can tread a fine line. A fragile line that separates usefulness and gratuitousness. To some degree, this judgement is subjective depending on the orientation of a user’s brain. The visual folks out there will be drawn to visually rich interfaces, and in this case, search results. Take a look and let me know what you [...]

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Create a Store Locator in 5 minutes flat

Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Thanks to Mapspread, you can now build your own personal Store Locator, and this doesn’t require a developer’s skills! With this service, you import your data from spreadsheets, maintain it with fun tools, share with coworkers and friends, publish to the world. Create a FREE account now > Highlights Collaborative real-time map editing Import your data from spreadsheets, [...]

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20 User Experience Books you should own

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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These highly recommended user experience books cover everything from user research and interface design, to information architecture and UX strategy. If you’re really serious about your career as a user experience professional, these books should be the cornerstone of your personal library. What are your top 5 User Experience books? Subject To Change: Creating Great Products [...]

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Spymaster, Twitter game or Twitter spam?

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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For those of you who are familiar with Facebook’s social networking games like “Knights” and “Mob Wars”, Twitter’s Spymaster is in the same mold. It’s the typical social networking game where you recruit members to build up your clan, and simultaneously purchases weapons, buildings and revenue streams to grow stronger. And then there’s the standard mode [...]

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Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Wolfram, the potential game changing computational knowledge engine, (not a search engine) recently went live. Why isn’t Wolfram a search engine? Well that’s because it takes your query and creates content from it, by outputting graphs, maps, tables, and information that you may not have directly requested. Wolfram relies on knowledge from official sources to do this. [...]

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Protoshare: Collaborative Web-Based Interactive Wireframes and Prototypes

Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Protoshare is a web-based collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams quickly build, discuss, and refine clickable wireframes. If you’ve ever been involved in the website design or creation process, you know that it can be a pain for developers, spec creators, and internal or external clients to communicate in an efficient manner. Protoshare’s nifty web-based [...]

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Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Posted on 09. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Amazon will releasee its 2nd version of the Kindle on 2/24/2009, and what’s really interesting is how Amazon is not calling it an “e-book reader”, but rather a “wireless reading device”. It certainly sounds more sophisticated and might compel customers to cough up the $359 being asked. Kindle 2 features: Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, [...]

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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design – By Bill Buxton

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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While this is definitely an excellent book for designers, it is just as much a resource for executives, product managers and software engineers. To help illustrate many of his points, Buxton takes the reader through real-life case studies. Buxton is a champion for design, not only as a discipline, but also as a process. In fact, he places huge [...]