http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog Rants about Games, Mobility and Interaction design Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:00:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some people know, I work for INdT where we develop a couple of applications for Maemo, and we are really fans of the platform and the whole linux mobile in general. So when I read about the contest it was clear I should make a internal competition with the ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/maemo-logo-contest-inside-indt-team-one-is-ahead I was looking the entries for the Maemo logo and I was really happy to see how many people have contributed already. But I also gave some laughs, because I could recognize at least 6 or 7 famous brands there :) Amazon, Palm, Engadget, etc and 2 guys being ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/maemo-logo-contest-a-lot-of-fun Carman, our fully open source project here at OpenBossa Labs, aims to give tablet users the chance of analyzing their Car's OBDII protocol was on "hold" for a while with no new versions announced. The fact was that just like Canola, the whole INdT team was going over a lot ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/graphical-design/carman-is-also-alive-news-upcoming-update It was just amazing :) don't miss the next one!!! http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/programming/bossa-conference-2008-video Apart from the title, that is just to grab your attention I really wanted to make sure some people understand one thing: Knowing how to criticize is a crucial thing to have your message heard. Also I wanted Maemo Developers and some heavy users to know another thing: The most ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/the-flame-goes-everywhere-canola-haters-unite Jeff Mancuso, dev of expanDrive : With high-level languages and good libraries, small teams can create great products at a rapid pace. We realized that we could write applications for the desktop in the exact same way. We rewrote SftpDrive from top to bottom in Python, with a GUI in Objective-C. ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/programming/we-are-for-sure-not-alone-on-python-for-development Hello everyone! So we made it! If you have one of the following supported distros on your devices you can already install it quite easy going to the website and hitting install now. Just make sure you unninstall canola1, if possible reboot (to get rid of the canola scanner) and ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/canola2-beta-one-is-online We are still fixing some issues to do not block the old site, but you can already access the website in the following address http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola2/ Bare in mind that this is a teaser =) not everything is there, and we have some nice surprises still for everyone. Update at night: answering some comments 770 ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/canola2-beta-teaser-site-online Click the image for more info. INdT giving sequence to it's software tech days is going to make another on november 20th and 21th in Joinville. This is a great opportunity to get in contact with Maemo development. Not only you will have introdutory course on developing for Maemo but ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/programming/for-brazilians-free-maemo-training-in-joinville World Usability Day, Recife, originally uploaded by MarceloEduardo. Picture by: Fábio Caparica from UXRecife Talking about User Centered Design (in Maemo) at World Usability Day using Canola 1.0 x Canola 2.0 as case http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/world-usability-day-recife N810 image view, but you can also see the new task navigator, and a much better theme This morning I saw the pictures of the brand new Nokia Internet Tablet on engadget. I was quite happy with the industrial design. It looks so much better than the N800 and it's ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/industrial-design/n810-surfaces-slide-keyboard-is-here-what-about-canola If you always missed some good video management tool for all you internet video needs, here's a good solution : The videocenter application. The application is a hub for internet videos, local stored videos and in the future for other video sources, like mythTV (explained in arthur's web site here). You ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/new-application-for-the-n800-videocenter Yes, this week will be pretty crowed attending the Ux week, but I believe that I will be able to gather a lot of insights and experiences from the sessions. Looking forward to not only talk but learn a lot about improving our indt team skills, and bring a lot ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/on-my-way-to-washington-dc-to-ux-week-2007 a very small portion of the paper prototype work A update to this post: * video now on youtube! These mockups (in the video) are experimental. So forgive us for the typos, and even items with wrong icons etc. The information architecture, icons and final visuals will be done still. I know it ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/user-interface-design/canola-development-update-or-we-are-not-dead Just read the comment here, and this link deserves a post : https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-quetoo/. It's a first release of Quake2 engine port to Maemo, and I will give it a try as soon as I have time! *busy with wife's family visit! Posting at 00:00! http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/maemo-quetoo-first-release