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SharedMinds Desktop – The Ultimate Twitter Client for Windows

September 25, 2009 – 11:25 am | 18 Comments | 31,828 views
SharedMinds Desktop – The Ultimate Twitter Client for Windows

With SharedMinds Desktop you can browse though all your tweets quickly and show links, user profiles and twitter search results right there in the same application. This will make you more productive and enhance your …

The Story of the Office Ribbon

August 21, 2009 – 12:48 pm | No Comment | 66 views
The Story of the Office Ribbon

You may love or hate the new Office Ribbon user interface. Microsoft was very brave to dramatically change the user interface for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Co. It means that more than half a billion …

SharedMinds Desktop – Quickstart

August 9, 2009 – 11:13 am | No Comment | 345 views
SharedMinds Desktop – Quickstart

If you are new to Twitter or if you do not have an account yet read the following article to get started:

How to Use Twitter

By now you should have a basic understanding of Twitter …

Designing the ULTIMATE Twitter Client

June 28, 2009 – 4:32 am | 4 Comments | 115 views
Designing the ULTIMATE Twitter Client

 
I am working on a Twitter Client right now. But I am not working on some Twitter Client – I am working on the ULTIMATE Twitter Client! Right? Well sort of… however we need …

UI Platforms: Which One Would You Pick?

June 24, 2009 – 2:48 pm | One Comment | 307 views
UI Platforms: Which One Would You Pick?

With technologies like Ajax, Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight and WPF the borders between rich desktop applications and rich Internet applications are blurring more and more.
Today the possibilities to develop rich user experiences are amazing! However it …

The World’s First Computer Bug!

March 1, 2009 – 10:57 am | No Comment | 210 views
The World’s First Computer Bug!

Ever wondered why a computer bug is called a “computer bug”? I was quite amazed to find out that the term can be understood quite literally:
According to the National Museum of American History:
In 1947, engineers …