Microsoft Office Labs’ Future Vision Montage

Mar 01 2009

On Feb 27, 2009, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop unveils Microsoft Corp.’s vision for the future of business technology.

There full version press release video is available here – Microsoft Business Division Virtual Presskit: Vision.

The best part of this press is the following video (2 minutes long), which presents Microsoft’s vision of Office 2019:

Here is the full version about the “Future Vision Montage”, 5 minutes long:

Here is the PowerPoint file for Stephen Elop’s Keynote.

For the comparison:

Apple’s “Future shock” Knowledge Navigator concept device from 1987:

For the vision montage it self, I am pretty enjoy watching it. And I could always feel that the application is too complicated to develop/use, too much information and too much distraction on the unrealistic giant screen.

I think 10 years is really way too short for Microsoft’s vision coming true. The computers we were using in 1999 are not that big different from what we have now, and how big is the different from Office 95 and Office 2008 again?

Anyway, we should never stop dreaming and hoping!

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Developing Applications for Palm webOS – Preview

Feb 26 2009

Developing Applications for webOS: A Preview
Date: This event took place live on February 25 2009
Presented by: Mitch Allen
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

In this live, online event, Mitch Allen, Palm’s Software CTO and a member of the Palm webOS™ design team, will recap the material included in the introductory chapter of Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo™ Framework, a joint collaboration announced this week by Palm and O’Reilly, and will give you a preview into application development with the Mojo SDK. This is a great opportunity to hear an insider’s perspective on webOS development and get a glimpse into the development environment and toolset for this breakthrough mobile web platform.

More Links:

Another gift:

  • Use the code 4CAST in the O’Reilly‘s shopping cart when you check out to take 40% off your order, not working in UK. Only valid through March 15, 2009

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AppStore Secrets

Feb 22 2009

iPhone AppStore Secrets – Pinch Media

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iHome -Releasing your Home Button and more

Feb 22 2009

if you want to feel the power of the capacitive touchscreen we’re using, why not use the iphone exclusively without the home button?  Apple did not provide a way to do so, but now we got it!

Usage

  • Slide Area

  • Home State

1. Short slide from right to left -> Jump to the first page of your apps, just like single press on Home button
2. Long slide from right to left -> Open iPod Control Dialog if it’s playing, like double press on Home button
3. Short slide from left to right -> Open Power Dialog, which includes Lock, ReSpring, Reboot, Power Off and other options
4. Long slide from left to right -> Lock Screen
5. Long press 5 seconds to trigger Screenshot

  • Application State

1. Short slide from right to left -> Open Exist Dialog, which includes back Home and iPod control if it’s playing
2. Long slide from right to left -> Quit from the current app, like single press on Home button
3. Short slide from left to right -> Open Power Dialog, which includes Lock, ReSpring, Reboot, Power Off and other options
4. Long slide from left to right -> Lock Screen
5. Long press 5 seconds to trigger Screenshot

Requirement

  • Jailbroken iPhone
  • Cydia

Links

Author mj(马骏)’s Home page

iHome 0.2 Release page (in Chinese)

Bug Report page (in Chinese)

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Mini vMac – Mac Plus emulator for iPhone

Feb 22 2009

Features

  • 4MB Mac Plus
  • Full screen or scrolling
  • Full simulated keyboard
  • Sound

Requirements

  • Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch
  • iPhone OS 2.x
  • Mac Plus ROM image
  • Mac disk images

More Links:

Mini vMac

Source Code

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FutureRuby

Feb 19 2009

RubyFringe presents… FutureRuby — Leaders of Tomorrow, Today!

See you there soon!

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Online Coding – Bespin

Feb 19 2009

Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

More links:

Project Homepage

Try it now

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Why myPhone?

Feb 12 2009

Why myPhone?

Why we need an application to calculate the MS Points?

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Lovely Video Ad for Google Chrome

Feb 11 2009

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The Most Good Looking iPhone App – Groups

Feb 10 2009

Groups: Drag & Drop Contacts Management

Groups takes contacts group management to a totally different level. With a highly innovative user interface, you get to manage your contacts the iPhone way; drag them, drop them or trash them. As they say, “Drag & Drop is worth a thousand operations”… or something like that!

It is the most good looking app I’ve found on App Store so far. It makes the build-in ‘Contacts’ looks like a piece of …..


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