Posts Tagged ‘review’

Notes on Sparrow’s UI

I’ve been meaning to write about Sparrow App – my now default mail app for work. It’s really worked for me. I like the lack of things I can do to incoming mail. I either read it or it stays unread. No filing, no labelling etc etc. Sparrow might allow you to do more, but I don’t know how and it works for me. Best of all, the app does a great job of keeping all those options that I don’t want to use, out of my way.

I recently caught a link to Olivier Charavel’s thoughts about Sparrow’s UI. It’s always interesting to read other people’s UI reviews, but I certainly hope Sparrow doesn’t go the way Olivier proposes. I’m not obsessed with it’s “Tweetie” like interface, but another “Thunderbird” would certainly be missing the point.

Weatherlah alert screens

I love the alert screens that Jon pushes out to Weatherlah users when the rain alerts appear. Here’s a collection of a few that I managed to save :)

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Quick test of the Writer app by iA

I’m sitting in a cab on my way to work and trying out the Writer app by iA. Wow! I’m actually enjoying this.

I’m thinking, if I start doing this it might help me keep my blog posts short and to the point (I’ve realized I always get bored if I go back and read my own posts). I’m not sure if this will work, but it does appeal to me. Also trying to see how posting to word press via email works.

(I make blogging too complicated for myself. Waiting for Roberto’s post on his workflow to take notes.)

Jitouch: Quite cool & pretty complicated

First, the Opera desktop browser got me totally addicted to mouse gestures and now the multi-touch trackpad has proved to be one of the major highlights of my new MacbookPro.

Jitouch, gives you the completely control over your multi-touch-trackpad-gestures. It lets you customize and add a lot more new gestures, and in decently innovative ways as well.

Jitouch prefpane

A few of the gestures just sold this app to me so well, that I am willing to ignore the mess the creators have created by going overboard with the crazy amount of default gestures this app switches on! I have disabled ALL OF THEM, apart from:

  • Next / Previous tab
  • Open Link in a New Tab
  • Refresh
  • Open recently closed tab
  • Scroll to Top
  • Scroll to Bottom

I would also use the “Character gestures” if I could only get them to work! All in all, for $5.99 .. actually I haven’t decided if I would pay for this yet.

In other news, the rumors of the Magic Trackpad sound interesting. It would work perfectly with my desk-laptop combination!

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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