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UI Bug with T-Mobile myTouch 4G

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:35:10 +0000

I just received my new T-Mobile myTouch 4G in the mail today and fired it up (for those interested, we’ll have a video review shortly). 30 minutes into using it I ran into a UI glitch that makes the device unusable and only disappears when you reset the phone. To reproduce the bug, try the [...]

FourSquare Mayor Checkin Program w/ Source Code

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:23:32 +0000

Update #2: This application now has an official software product page with all the links for download, usage and source code. If you just want to download the program and run it, scroll down the Download section below. Thanks! Background A few weeks ago we wrote about Mayank Lahiri’s working FourSquare checkin hack that allowed [...]

Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:05:49 +0000

Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

UI Design Can Be Funny Sometimes… Again

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:45:32 +0000

Right after we got done laughing about Mixx’s somewhat mixed message on it’s “do more!” submission confirmation page, we tried out Google’s Friend Connect (integrated on the right hand side of the site if you are interested) and saw an even more interesting placement of conflicting functions: Pretty great if you ask us… immediately after [...]

UI Design Can Be Funny Sometimes

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:01:41 +0000

The other day I was posting something to Mixx (it’s a social news site, like Digg) and noticed on the submission confirmation page there was something interesting about the flow of additional “promotion” work I could do for my story: It’s minor and I think overall (even this screen) that Mixx has an excellent UI [...]