Posts Tagged ‘review’

Mutewatch: a new take on minimal wrist watches

For some time now I have been sketching clocks & watches in order to come up with something thats minimalistic & functional. While I’m still working on it, the Mutewatch caught my attention and really appealed to me.

What I really like is how these guys have made sure they keep the touch interface easy to navigate with fingers by not crowding it and keeping the “hit area” big enough.

Someone gave me a demo of the Mutewatch at a conference last month and it was really as impressive as the video claims. Although at $299 I can’t really justify buying it to try it out, so I’m gonna stick to my Mondaine for now.

Published on: July 27th, 2011

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Posted in Caught my click, Conceptwise

Byword is the new Writeroom

I love writing my mails and blogposts in Writeroom and I’ve been a big fan since I found out about it around 3 years ago. Yesterday though, I switched sides and bought Byword after I read Roberto’s post. From his blog:

I already switched from WriteRoom when Byword came out for longer writings, but with Markdown support, this is now the tool.

Roberto had tried to make me adopt Markdown when we were in Oslo, but the lack of built in support in Writeroom was always the showstopper for me. Now there is no excuse and I decided to give it a try. Loving, Byword & Mardown, so far.

Might try QuickCursor in a few days as well.

Published on: May 26th, 2011

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Posted in Apps discussed

Recommended Mac app: QuickCal

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I’d really recommend QuickCal if, like me, you also:

  • Use iCal regularly
  • Don’t like to keep it running as it just sits there most of the time
  • Like the idea of using plain english to add stuff to iCal
  • Would like to have a quick and simple way to add and view events

After setting it up, now I can quickly press:

  • “Shift + Cmd + C” to add a new event in plain english (love the feedback from the different fields that get filled in as you type)
  • “Shift + Cmd + X” to get an overview of your days appointments

I had been reading about Fantastical the past few days, but I think it’s a bit overdone design wise. Feels “bulky”. And it costs more than 15 times the price of QuickCal ($0.99).

Update: Quickcal does not support caldav sync, which means you need to keep iCal running all the time otherwise the events you create will not be synced (until you run iCal). This might be a problem for some (like myself).

Published on: May 25th, 2011

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Posted in Apps discussed

WVIL Concept Camera

This prototype blew my socks off! Even though the idea isn’t something completely new, but the execution here it is pretty impressive. The WVIL basically separates the body (or the viewfinder) of the camera from the lens – allowing you to fire the shutter in the lens remotely from the viewfinder. Their viewfinder interface seems to be quite interesting as well.

I actually tried something like this a while back. If you have any two from iPad, iPhone, iPod (atleast one has to be camera enabled) – download the “Camera for iPad” app on both. You should now be able to use one of your devices as a “lens” and the other as a “viewfinder”. It won’t be even close to the awesomeness of the WVIL but it should give you a feeler :)

I’m tempted to think of a camera that can work on it’s own and at the same time, can be completely controlled wirelessly by a phone/tablet/computer interface as well.

WVIL Concept Camera by Artefact

Published on: April 26th, 2011

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Posted in Caught my click, Conceptwise

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Navjot Pawera (aka Nav)

UX, UI, Product design guy. These days, I'm working on creating new stuff at Bubble Motion. I am a silent partner at ExtraThought - a user experience design consultancy. I also curate the IXD Sessions in Singapore.

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