Imagine your smartphone or tablet screen as a flexible, elastic material. As it turns out, you might not have to wait long. Researchers from Osaka University have developed what they are coining the “Flex” interface and it will likely be reaching cellphones and tablets before we know it. These researches identified a key problem with standard swipe...

The way in which menus operate in an app is a big deal, because it can mean the difference between loving or hating the app. Something that has slowly but surely creeping its way into Microsoft applications is the ribbon interface. The difference between a regular toolbar and a ribbon is that a ribbon is a set of toolbars seen as selectable tabs. If you’re...

One of the most beautiful things about the internet is that anyone can develop a program, post it on a web site and charge for it. And if the program is good at whatever it does, people will readily pay for it. "But I know very little about programming", you may say. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist. All you need is a...

Yes, this is a retro article, but with a modern twist. The Commodore 64 is to date the best-selling computer of all time and hasn’t been topped. An all too common item to be seen next to the C64 was the 1541 floppy disk drive. This actually was in fact more than just a disk drive. It was a computer because it did contain a microprocessor (this one, in...

There’s a reason I used the odd-cased HoTMaiL in the title because that’s the way it was originally written out. You’ll notice the capital letters are HTML. Hotmail was spelled that way many moons ago to really drive home the fact it was HTML (meaning web) based mail. Microsoft this week decided to roll out the new-and-improved interface across...

Some of you out there who use Hotmail might have seen this today:(click image for full size) The reason I say some is because this is a gradual roll-out of the updated Windows Live Hotmail service. If you use this e-mail, you will see this upgrade possibly today, tomorrow, next week, etc. But it will eventually happen. The bad sense of humor comes from the 2...