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The BBC is embracing the post-PC world with a reworked homepage at beta.bbc.co.uk. Here's what it looks like on my TouchPad. The black arrows on either side slide the screen through three other views. It's a little bit reminiscent of how the BBC's iPlayer displays programmes on my Bluray player, which isn't entirely unsurprising. Some of the other features, such
There's been a great deal of speculation in the blogosphere regarding a new entrant into the apps-that-run-anywhere competition. Called Carbyn, it seems to be an HTML5-based OS and app store. If you are struggling to see how this is a good thing, most modern browsers support HTML5, so you can setup and use Carbyn from almost any computer or tablet
Smashing Magazine is celebrating its fifth birthday and as a wee treat, has prepared a "Best of Smashing Magazine" ebook and is giving it away free. The articles are all about web design, Photoshop, typography and user interfaces (or the user experience as it seems to be called now). It's no lightweight either - there are 409 pages of beautifully prepared
Internet Explorer 6, that is. In 2011, IE6 will be 10 years old and to celebrate, Microsoft has decided to kill it off. Not before time frankly. Surprisingly, IE6 still has a worldwide market share of 12%, though this fell in the last year from 21%, so Microsoft's target is to get IE6's share down to 1% or less. And
As I continue to live in a world of both Android and iOS apps, I have a few observations. These should serve as lessons for would-be app designers. The most useful apps are those that take a single to narrow range of tasks that can be accomplished conventionally on a computer browser and squeeze them down into a simple interface
It's been a while since I paid attention to web traffic, specifically browser numbers. So, what I saw today was a bit of a shock. It seems things have been changing recently, on just about every front. For a start, I thought Firefox was gaining share. I seem to think I heard that in several places. I also thought Explorer