New mobile user interface by TAT [VIDEO]

August 24th, 2008

UPDATE #1: Added another video

Apple, get ready for this! TAT - The Astonishing Tribe is a company specialized in high performance user experiences on mobile devices, I've found a video where we can see a prototype of her new impressive mobile interface that maybe we will se in the next mobile devices.

Well maybe the buttons and widgets are too small to touch, that would be cool in a keyboard device but a lot better in a screen of the size of an iPhone.

I would like to see more OS's and interfaces like this in a near future, with even more "fx transitions" and adding a third dimension to the screen.

TAT mobile user interface

TAT mobile user interface

Link: TAT Website

New and incredible iPhone app, iHologram

August 23rd, 2008

David OReilly has finished a new iPhone/iPod Touch application that shows a "hologram" in the screen, obiously it is not a real hologram but the effect is simply amazing.

Watch this!


iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.

LHC – How it works (Video)

August 17th, 2008

Here is a nice video from BBC Horizon podcast, that explains how the CERN's LHC (Large Hadron Collider) works:

POSKeyError in Zope when trying to copy a site to a new filesystem

August 17th, 2008

Some days ago I had to move a Plone Site from one filesystem to another, both in the same Zope instance in a linux PC with Zope 2.10.6-final, python 2.4.5, and Plone 3.1.2

Everything seemed to go well, I made a cut/paste from an entire Plone Site that was in the main Data.fs because I needed to put in another database, called Data-sitename.fs and after that, the site worked perfectly, but... some hours later I made a database pack in order to clean all the Plone instances removing old objects.

Just after pressing the pack button in the new Data-sitename.fs, ups! something went wrong:

Error Type: POSKeyError
Error Value: 0x484b

As a result of that, the new Data-sitename.fs was corrupted and the Plone Site inside was gone :(

Be careful! do not cut or copy/paste a Plone Site from a filesystem to another one in the same Zope, instead of that, do a Export/Import and it will work :)

Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics

August 15th, 2008

More fun from Siggraph 2008!

This is the new stuff coming out from the Microsoft Labs:

Link: Unwrap Mosaics: A new representation for video editing (Microsoft Labs)