Archive for January 27th, 2007

Posted on January 27, 2007 - by jono

N800 shazaa

Like many others, my N800 has arrived after I was also one of the lucky few who got recommended for the get-an-N800-on-the-cheap developer programme.

Nice device, and a big improvement on the 770. It feels more sturdy, is much faster, and the UI feels more mature. It is nice to see that Nokia commissioned a second device – I assume the 770 sold reasonably well. I really do think Maemo is an awesome platform, and it is great to see it on another device.

Others have summarised the N800 pretty well, so I won’t bore you with that here, I just wanted to give my thumbs up to Nokia with it.

Posted on January 27, 2007 - by jono

Usability and GNOME video from LCA

On the Monday at LCA, there was a GNOME Love session as part of gnome.conf.au. In this session a bunch of us shouted out things to discuss, and I shouted out ‘application design and usability’. What I didn’t realise was that shouting out a suggestion mean’t volunteering to talk about it. Oof!

So, I got up and discussed my views on usability, good design and making better applications. There was some interesting banter with the other folks in the room, and I think the (completely unprepared, unexpected) session raised some interesting issues that would be of use for most application authors.

As with the rest of LCA, this was videoed for your online viewing kicks, so go and download the video – my bit kicks in at around 12 minutes.