https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=5860 2015-11-27T22:56:13Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=5860 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > HCI stuff > mobiles https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1533019 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744859 2015-11-27T22:56:13Z Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1452732 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/smartphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 2015-01-22T18:20:39Z This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. 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The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=232059 http://mollyproject.sourceforge.net/ 2010-10-28T11:30:30Z The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ... The Nielsen https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=228075 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/connected-devices-does-the-ipad-change-everything/ 2010-10-23T19:32:12Z If you have read my earlier posts, you must have seen th... Today I have discovered that Fukuchi Kentaro, who is an ... I have put a page on my server for you to use the functi ... This is a demonstration of calling the page: ... e. (PS: Kaywa reader ne https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=182746 http://keremerkan.net/posts/real-time-qr-code-generator-php-function/ 2010-08-02T13:11:53Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=182745 http://megaui.net/fukuchi/works/qrencode/index.en.html 2010-08-02T13:08:34Z SnapTell Visual Search Snap. Send. Get. Visual Search is transforming the way customers search, ... With our visual product matching service that powers bot ... ... pp from the App Store™, or find out more from SnapTell https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=169008 http://a9.com/-/company/snaptell.jsp 2010-06-18T12:08:53Z ZXing ("Zebra Crossing")¶ ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, m ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=167147 http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ 2010-06-09T07:15:31Z What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code BY Gina TrapaniTue Mar 16, 2010 QR code Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=167134 http://www.fastcompany.com/1585822/business-card-just-scan-my-qr-code 2010-06-09T06:56:33Z there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display. While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ... But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=167121 http://www.fastcompany.com/1657469/iphone-4-retina-display-apple-jobs-wwdc-smartphones-tech-cell-phones-design 2010-06-09T06:46:39Z WAVING your hand to get the bartender’s attention may ... Miniature projectors may soon have all kinds of new uses ... 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Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c... from this p https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=114626 http://iome-locationbaseddigitalservices.blogspot.com/2009/08/our-survey-reveals-new-generations-of.html 2009-09-07T17:02:18Z The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ... As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ... Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ... It is likel https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=98330 http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ 2009-05-20T11:13:08Z Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. 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