Author Archives: devslashtux

I’m the Webmaster and Code Monkey at MON Productions – I’m also responsible for some of the scripts and stories featured on the site.

In the real world, I’m – oddly enough – a web-designer/user experience architect.

Mobisnap High-definition Prototype

Revision 2.2: Updated to show operation of edit screen and navigation. Adds help button? Below is a Flash prototype for the Mobisnap application. It’s programmed to run you through a “product tour” of the program – although the final slide is still incomplete. I’ll update this as soon as I can think.Your comments are welcomed [...]

Minisite 2

Minisite 2 is currently online at http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~dcos5821/deco1200/minisite2/index.html. I’ll upload it to WordPress a bit later.

More News

Rumours are circulating that Apple is planning a revival of the Newton handheld (which still kick Windows PocketPC) in a similar form factor to the iPhone. With a large high-res multitouch screen and useful features like copy & paste that the iPhone lacks, it should be more like a PDA. Obviously though, all of the [...]

WordPress 2.3

Quick note to check that the upgrade to WordPress 2.3 succeeded. Which it did. Happyness. WordPress kicks TiddilyWiki

News and Updates

Some more iPod Touch related news: first, a review from US PC World Magazine, which describes a few issues with the screen, sound quality and stability. In particular, it seems to have difficulty working with high-end headphones – something you wouldn’t expect from a “high-end” MP3 player. As usual with Apple gear, it seems that [...]

O2 gets UK iPhone Contract

That’s no help to us, since O2 aren’t a carrier here. Given their wide range of choice between Hellstra, Optarse and Vodafaux (and 3, forgot them), I wonder which Apple will choose. On the upside, 3G networks have widespread (ish) coverage here – something the US doesn’t have (they couldn’t even settle on a single [...]

iSmudginator and native apps

This is very fun, it’s an iPhone smudge and scratch simulator! It even has a cute little cleaning cloth to wipe the fingerprints away. Given the way most consumer-electronics smudge up, someone really needs to come up with a smudge-resistant surface. C’mon nanotechnology, where are you now ‘eh?! On a slightly more useful note, Gearlog [...]

Mobishop Minisite 1

This is pretty much directed at Rob: I’ve mirrored my minisite at http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~dcos5821/deco1200/minisite1/ it’s been deCMSed (if that is a word). There is a version saved with the SWF and CSS if the spiders break – you can grab that here all in one ZIP file. You can also grab the Minisite straight off the [...]

iPhone Cardboard Mockup

I hate republishing files from other peoples blogs, but since the original link to it has disappeared, google finds no leads and a few other DECO students want to print one off, I’ve put a copy of the PDF online for your very own iPhone cardboard cutout. Kudos to the original author, and of course to Apple for [...]

iPhone Mockup

I’ve quickly whipped up a little example of what you can do with standards-compliant CSS and XHTML. It’s an iPhone interface mockup. It’s not an iPhone simulator, but I intend to use this in some way to use this for some quick lo-fi evaluation.The iPhone mockup can be seen here: http://devslashtux.monproductions.com/static/2007/iphone/. Oh, and on a [...]