Category Archives: VisualMedia
Synergy, One Keyboard and Mouse, Multiple PCs
If you’re anything like me, you probably have at least one PC and one laptop on your desk, maybe even more. And all of those have a separate keyboard and mouse. It’s not a pretty sight for a minimalist. Luckily, there’s Synergy, a program that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse across several [...]
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eBooks on the iPod Touch, a Case of Hit-or-Miss
I’ve always stayed away from eBooks, certainly the paid ones. It never felt natural to read them on a screen. But with Manning running a few great promotions, I thought I’d go for it and bought me a book or two on the cheap. Now, about reading them.
Lately, I have been using my iPod Touch [...]
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Mixing Media, the Lost Jigsaw Puzzles
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Those who have followed the blog for some time, probably already know that I love alternate reality games and the mixing of different types of media. Once again, I’ve been suckered into buying stuff I really don’t have time for: the Lost jigsaw puzzles.
I’m a huge fan of the series, especially the [...]
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TV Guide for the Internet, Clicker
Clicker’s goal is a big one: trying to aggregate all sources of online video and showing you what is good, what is hot and what you should watch. Basically, a TV guide for the video content available on the Internet.
Now, that’s certainly not an easy thing to do. There are millions of video’s available and [...]
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Theme Tester Wordpress Plugin for Live Theme Previews
If your a Wordpress admin, how do you test your new or updated theme? If you’re anything like me, you have a local Wordpress installation to test the big changes and do the small things live on the blog (although you know you really shouldn’t). Well, there is a better solution and it’s called Theme [...]
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Evolution in UX Design: Horizontal Layout
I’m not sure what has happened lately, but it seems a new hype in user interface design has arrived: sorting the different windows horizontally. Let me give you a few examples.
First there is the new Evernote:
Now I love Evernote and this 3.5 version of their Windows client is a huge improvement over any previous one. [...]
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4 Industrial Design Resources
As a ramp up of a new project (don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten the Android one) which I may or may not start I have been looking for affordable industrial designers or schools in Belgium. There are obviously a bunch of consultancy firms, but I’m afraid my budget is too limited.
If you’re interested in design, [...]
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Closed Video Boxes, (not) Hacking the Telenet Digicorder
This article focuses on Belgium, but it’s also a commentary in general on the state of digital video receiver boxes. Since about a year, I have a Telenet Digicorder (site in Dutch), which is a device that both decodes incoming digital broadcasts and is able to record and timeshift them. It’s a fairly user-friendly device [...]
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Windows 7 RC First Impressions and Problems
About a month ago I downloaded the Windows 7 RC images (no longer available), but it took me until last weekend before I found the time to backup my old machine and install it. Here’s a post with some first impressions and a major issue I faced.
First, the background, I have been running Windows XP [...]
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