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Natural User Interface

Cam Tullos — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:35:40 +0000

Natural user interface, or NUI, is the common parlance used by designers and developers of computer interfaces to refer to a user interface that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible with successive learned interactions, to its users. The word natural is used because most computer interfaces use artificial control devices whose operation has to be [...]

Google Tablet with Android & Flash Player

Cam Tullos — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:07:58 +0000

That’s right, there will finally be a tablet device that allows you to view the internet in it’s entirety. Check out this article over at Zedomax.com about the Google Tablet running Android with Adobe AIR and Flash Player 10. Share

Rotten Apple

Cam Tullos — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:35:09 +0000

The new iPhone 4.0 SDK language appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. What this means is that Apple isn’t going to allow any apps developed on or in any other platform into the App Store. Yet another blow to the Adobe Creative Suite 5; which made major changes [...]

Wired Magazine’s – AIRzine

Cam Tullos — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:32:48 +0000

Adobe Air® 2.0 + Native Applications!

Cam Tullos — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:15:28 +0000

We’ve been working on an Adobe Air® application for quite some time called LiteFile® and production came to a slow halt when the need for launching Native Applications started to sour our love for Air. But with the new version of Air, we hope the affair will rekindle. I’ve downloaded the beta and worked through [...]

Never Stop Learning

Cam Tullos — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:31:53 +0000

I’ve been a developer for over 10 years now and I stumbled upon an extremely simple bit of coding that I’ve never either seen or realized was out there. It’s so simple that I feel like a complete n00b for not knowing this! So What Is It? When toggling the value of a Boolean variable [...]

IM’s Place at Work

Cam Tullos — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:10:50 +0000

IM has the immediacy of telephone without the interruption, and the convenience of email without the delay. For years I’ve been an advocate for instant messaging in the work place so I figured I’d take a few minutes and explain why I feel IM should be implemented and how! How’s it work? IM is really [...]

Destination: Web

lisa — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:45:07 +0000

I like to consider myself pretty tech-savvy, as are most of my colleagues and friends. I’ve also found that the Internet is an awesome way to connect with people – family, friends, clients, potential clients – whether it be through social networking, email, or our website. As we built our small business, having a website [...]

Social Media & Web 2.0 Defined

Cam Tullos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:20:41 +0000

Many people think they know what the terms mean but do they really? Do YOU really know? Well if you don’t, you’re not alone. It seems as though people are living in a strange new ecosystem (but I like to call it a virtualsystem) full of innovative and highly disruptive applications where people tend to [...]

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

Cam Tullos — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:37:04 +0000

Here’s a great read about Corporate Blogging written by Paul Boag of Smashing Magazine: I have reached the conclusion that most organizations have a blog simply because they feel they should. Many marketing departments fail to “get” blogging and have poorly visited blogs with few comments. Because their blog fails to perform, they conclude that [...]