Archive | January, 2010

How the iPad is Changing Interaction Design

Applications that looked amazing on larger multi-touch experiences like Microsoft Surface may have a more affordable consumer-facing counterpart. While the iPad has been widely criticized, many startups are thrilled by its possibilities. In mid-November we featured Paris-based Pearltrees as a new design interface for remapping web information. [...]
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Bravo! Foursquare Snags a TV Partnership

Bravo! Foursquare Snags a TV Partnership

Foursquare’s new frontier isn’t just newspapers, but media companies as a whole. Case in point: Bravo and Foursquare have entered into a must-see TV relationship integrating show personalities and their city tips, as well as a Bravo badges, into the game experience. [...]
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Win 5 Pro Licenses from Oops!Backup

Oops!Backup is giving away 5 Professional License of their software, exclusively to TutZone readers. There will be 5 Winners and each will receive 1 Professional version of the software.
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Oracle Hails Java but Kills Sun Cloud

Oracle’s plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving another big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.
With Merger, Oracle Reassures Sun Customers
Cloud Computing Definitions and Solutions
Under Oracle’s new stewardship, Java will be expanded to more application types while the public process for [...]

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Can Flash be saved?

Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then. [...]
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Amazon to Macmillan: You Win (for Now)

Amazon to Macmillan: You Win (for Now)

While the ebook war between Apple and Amazon has only just again, this weekend’s drama between Macmillan and Amazon has ended decisively in the book publisher’s favor.This weekend it was revealed that Macmillan and Amazon were fighting over ebook prices. Macmillan wanted to raise the prices and change pricing to an agency model. [...]
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Grammys: Imogen Heap Accepts Award Wearing “Twitter Dress”

Grammys: Imogen Heap Accepts Award Wearing “Twitter Dress”

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards will air its televised portion tonight at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST, but the non-televised portion of the awards are already streaming live on the web. One of the early social media hat tips in evidence comes from artist Imogen Heap, who accepted an award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical [...]

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The Birth of the Virtual Assistant

The Birth of the Virtual Assistant

Dag Kittlaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Siri. He is a serial innovator and consumer wireless Internet veteran of 10 years in both Scandinavia and the US. Siri is Dag’s third consecutive mobile product.In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday tasks to intelligent [...]

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Will Oracle really make NetBeans the BEST IDE for Java

Not yet!!! But according to their webcast they want to make NetBeans the best Java IDE. This is a statement not to be taken lightly. Oracle are now investing in three IDEs which are all established in different ways. JDeveloper is Oracle’s IDE of choice, I am currently using it in my current project as [...]

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Weekly Web Design Inspiration #38

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #38

Here’s what I consider to be the best web designs from the past week. There is a great range of styles on show, I hope you find something you like. Let me know what you think.
Desigui
Industry Forge
Beatriz Carosini
Breezy Baby
Happy Cog’aoke
Double9 Creative
Syster
Frank Chimero
Workshops For The Web
Weight Shift
The Sew Weekly
Rareview
Tactio
Clearideaz
Ed Nacional
Tapmates
Silicon Prairie
Van Design
Preserve
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