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Why touch is not a revolutionary technology to the web

Aran — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:12:55 +0000

The way a user interacts with the web has been the same for a very long time now. The user uses a keyboard and mouse to click, select and move information and interact with the page. With the influx of new touch devices the way the user interacts is changing rapidly but this is only interacts with the device not the actual website. As a web developer I use HTML, JavaScript, PHP and many other programming languages and using these languages I code interactions for the mouse and keyboard only. I don’t code a event handler for a finger, or a “pinch” and because of this the new multi-touch devices, like the iPad, iPhone, Tablets, and other touch devices.

Until web developers have the ability to program actual interactions with finger interactions then no touch device is going to be revolutionary for the web.

In fact I believe with the current state of touch devices, touch devices and the web are never going to revolutionize the user experience.

Mac’s

Aran — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:37:15 +0000

I look at Mac’s all the time, and consider buying one. I mainly look at the laptops, specifically the Macbook Pro. Reason I look at the laptops and not the desktops, is because I feel a PC is always going to be better than a Mac Pro or iMac, all because if I feel like it I could upgrade a PC for a few hundred quid, reinstall it and it will be a lot better. With a Mac I wouldn’t be able to do this, well possibly with the Mac Pro. But the iMac this wouldn’t happen and I believe when paying £1.5k to £2k+ for a desktop this is stupid, a laptop is different.

Every time I look at the Macbook Pro’s I get put off from buying one, and that’s due to the cost! These laptops are so expensive that I couldn’t justify the cost right there and then, I mean I got a perfectly good laptop at the moment that my dad gave me, its about only about 1.5 years old, and runs Windows 7 Enterprise amazingly.

If I had a laptop that was 3 or 4 years old then maybe I would get a Macbook Pro, or if I had a large amount of cash just lying under my bed. But until that it’s going to be a while and this annoys me, why do Mac’s have to be so expensive, I mean it doesn’t cost £1.5k to make a laptop so why sell it at that price, surely if they were cheaper they would sell more and if they sold more they would clearly make up the difference?

URL ABC

Aran — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:42:41 +0000

Came across this post on http://maxvoltar.com/ and thought I would copy.

Now may have similar results on some of the pages, I visited one or two of his.

Interesting Q, X and Z is empty.

Blogging!

Aran — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:59:02 +0000

So started a blog… again…, god knows how many have been now. Hopefully am going to keep this one a little more updated now, I am using Windows Live Writer on this blog, with my main laptop which I am taking everywhere with me at moment. So hopefully that should mean I get a lot more posts done.

Some of the posts I hope to upload will include, tutorials/information on coding, including web development and application development. I am hoping to post some information on tricky problems, in C, Java and PHP. I am also going to post about games, specifically PS3 games.

I am hoping in the New Year to acquire COD:MW2, Assassin’s Creed 1 and 2 and of course Uncharted 2. I would of prefer to get Modern Warfare 2 on PC but due to my computer being a bit out dated it is looking more and more likely that I will be getting it for PS3. Unless I am able to upgrade my machine in the New Year.

For now this site is going to look like a dull WordPress blog site until I can decide what I want to do.

One option that I have seen and I may look into making a adapted version of is Tim Van Damme’s site. What I am thinking is something similar but with my own twist on it. Will more than likely try it out before doing it.