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It sort of makes me wonder at what point a three finger swipe on iOS will switch me between apps like it now does with spaces and full-screen mode in Lion. Hmmm…
It’s already possible to enable the three finger swipe on an iPad – just plug your iPad into a Mac running Xcode and use the device organiser to enable ‘use this iPad for development’. Then under settings, general, enable multitasking gestures:
Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to use all of the gestures listed above!
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This is HUGE. 1% of global browser share. Think about how much traffic that really is for a second… Not bad for a product that didn’t exist until April 2010.
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The new Tumblr app is so nice in every way that I can’t help but keep it on my homescreen. Matching iPad app, please!
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Another great article from Jakob Neilsen. Worth a read if you are at all involved in developing mobile applications. Hoping to see Jakob speak at this year’s Usability Week in London.
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
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Wow. All new Tumblr app for iPhone. Nice job, Tumblr team!
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I knew performance on a website was important but I didn’t realise quite how sensitive to it consumers would be. Must be a subconscious thing.
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For my birthday this year, I was lucky enough to receive a Billingham Hadley Pro camera bag in black canvas with black leather trim. I’ve long admired the Billingham range of camera bags, however I haven’t been able to justify spending upwards of £100 on a camera bag when my LowePro Stealth Reporter does just fine. Recently though, I have found that the LowePro bag is uncomfortable when carrying a couple of lenses and a body, plus it’s quite square and bulky. One of the big claims of the Billingham Hadley range is that their slim shape means that the weight of your camera equipment is carried closer to your body and therefore seems to weigh less. Time will tell whether this is the case or not.
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It still amazes me that there are people out there who aren’t using Dropbox. Dropbox has been around since 20071 and has clients for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, as well as mobile clients for iOS, Android, WP7 and Blackberry devices.
The idea behind Dropbox is to have a ‘magic’ folder on your computer and whatever your place inside that folder will be automatically uploaded to the Dropbox service and then automatically downloaded to all of your other devices or computers. A nice feature in addition to this is that Dropbox automatically keeps revisions of your files as you change them, so if you make a mistake, there’s a good chance you can recover an older version from the Dropbox website. Kind of like Apple’s Time Machine.
Since files are kept up-to-date automatically as you save them, you can effectively take this ‘magic’ folder with you everywhere you go, if you own a supported mobile device like an iPhone or iPad. The iPhone and iPad apps are both excellent, allowing you to mark certain files as ‘favourites’ so that they are downloaded and saved locally on the device for when you have no access to WiFi or cellular data.
There are dozens of reasons why you should be using Dropbox and if you aren’t already, I’d urge you to give it a try. 2GB accounts are free (there aren’t even any annoying adverts) and if you use this link, you’ll get an extra 250MB free.
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Remap your Mac’s caps lock key to trigger Quicksilver, Alfred or Spotlight. It’s amazing how much more you’ll use it than a two-key trigger like Option + Space.
