My employer, Nokia, announced this week that it is reorganizing Nokia Research Center. The why and how of this operation is explained in the press release.
I learned this on Tuesday along with all my colleagues and have since been finding out how this will affect me. I can of course not comment on any organizational [...]
Since I’m quite happy with the mac at work. I’m half convinced that I might want one at home. One problem though. The imacs on sale are crap. They’re nice configurations, for 2006. But why the hell would I sink money in a configuration with a maximum of 4GB and a video card that is [...]
Tagged appleGoogle and Yahoo have both posted a usability study for federated and openid logins. Basically both of them hint at keeping things simple and as easy to use for the user. Google has a quite nice suggestion about the UI but they all but stop at going all the way.
We’ve done a lot of thinking [...]
Having had my new mac for a few weeks now, it is time for a review.
In a nutshell, consider me switched. Overall it’s great and a huge improvement over my slow XP based laptop.
However, since everybody seems to focus on how great macs are, I’m going to first focus on everything that I think sucks [...]
Presenting Local Interaction Demo, originally uploaded by jillesvangurp.
Me presenting our Local Interaction demo at the Way We Live Next press event that Nokia organized two weeks ago. Also see the previous post with the youtube video.
Tagged nokiaI gave a demo of our system at a press event for Nokia a few weeks ago. Our PR people were busy filming and have put several short demo movies on Youtube. Including my demo and several other cool demos from colleagues in Nokia Research.
So enjoy.
Since I expect there will be people interested in learning [...]
Apple - Support - Discussions - Screen auto-dimming when I hit delete ….
LOL, this had me puzzled for a bit. While playing with my mac, I noticed the screen dimmed everytime I hit the delete key.
What happened:
the mac book pro adjust screen brightness to the ambient light
it has two light sensors in the stereo speakers
when [...]
I stumbled upon somebody writing about Nokia’s 2007 Way We Live Next event in Oulu. This event was intended to give the outside world a view on what is going on in Nokia Research Center.
Nice quote
Lots of interesting stuff was shown off during the course of the two days and the most interesting I came [...]
If you’ve read my past reviews of X-plane, you’ll know that I’m somewhat of a fan of that product. It’s an ultra realistic flight simulator. If you’ll read the product page you will see that it boasts a long list of features. I can assure you, they’re being modest. I don’t pay for software very [...]
Tagged x-planeIn April 2007, I replaced a broken power supply in my PC with a Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply. Check my review here. A few days ago, my pc has started producing a high pitched noise. Really annoying. So, I Google a little and what do I find: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supplies [...]
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