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UUI - Ubiquitous User Interface

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:32:30 GMT

Finally, The world is evolving towards a new mode of interaction.

Where human doesn't haveto give inputs to machines using some input devices like keyboard, mouse, touch etc. rather machines are made capable to understand human body movements and take inputs accordingly.

I will like to give it a new name UUI - i.e. Ubiquitous User Interface

Some examples of this are Accelerometer based inputs in many devices, Microsoft's new Project Natal for XBOX 360 .

Refer my previous blog posts on Sixth Sense, iPhone SDK showing accelerometer based input. And now have a look at this demo of Microsoft's Project Natal for XBOX 360:

It shows, how technology is gradually evolving

from Punch Card based instructions to Command line based instructions to Mouse / Digital Pen / Joystick to Voice / Touch / Accelerometer and now to Observation

for interfaces, from Console to GUI to IVR to UUI

What's Next ?? TUI -- Thought User Interface User can just think of an action and machine will understand :)

Sixth Sense -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:20:22 GMT

When you think out of the box, this is what is the possibility, you can make something so advanced with something so simple... and that also cheaper than the current available options....

Thanks to Parnav Mistry and Pattie Maes for such a brilliant work they have done.

I bet you will not be able to stop yourself from clapping after looking at the video / future.

If you can't see the below video, click here

--Manish Agrawal

iPhone SDK -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:24:36 GMT

Convert PDF to Word for Free

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:33:42 GMT

Got a good link to convert PDF to Word and that too free.

I checked converting one PDF with Image and Page Header / Footer Margins. And bang it goes... it has converted it very nicely.

Only trade-off was the size of the document, it converted 386kb PDF file to 1.42 mb MS Word file. But never mind, as the quality of output was very good.

To access this tool click here.

Future Mobile -- nice Presentation

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:29:18 GMT

How the future of the mobile web is going to change everything

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If the above presentation is not very clear and is not making sense at few places, you can see the Full Video or Highlights of the Video also.

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 9) - ANDROID Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:47:03 GMT

An Introduction to Android by Jason Chen. Android is the Open Handset Alliance's mobile software platform. In this session, Google introduces Android and discuss their vision for more open, powerful, and us...	Anatomy & Physiology of an Android Patrick Brady (Google) Android has been designed as a modern mobile platform that will enable applications to take full advantage of the mobile device capabiliti...


Inside the Android Application Framework Dan Morrill (Google) Android is designed to be fast, powerful, and easy to develop for. This session will discuss the Android application framework in dept...	Building an Android Application 101 Jason Chen (Google) This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We'll walk through building a n...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 8) - Python Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:45:38 GMT

Rapid Development with Python, Django, and Google App Engine Guido van Rossum (Google) Learn how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and th...

Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part I ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large sta...	Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part II ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a l...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 7) - AJAX Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:43:08 GMT

State of Ajax: The Universe is Expanding Dion Almaer (Google) and Ben Galbraith (Ajaxian.com) The Ajax revolution is complete: Sophisticated JavaScript user interfaces are nearly ubiquitous. Yet, ...	Advancded Gadget and UI Development Using Google's AJAX APIs Derek Collison (Google) The Google AJAX APIs can be used to build sophisticated Gadgets and UI controls for your website. For instance,...


A World Beyond AJAX: Accessing Google's APIs from Flash and Non-JavaScript Environments Vadim Spivak (Google) AJAX isn't the only way to access Google APIs. Learn how to use Google's services from...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 6) - App Engine Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:42:10 GMT

Building Scalable Web Applications with Google App Engine Brett Slatkin (Google) In this session we'll cover techniques you can use to improve your application's performance when you surpass a sim...	Best Practices - Building a Production Quality Application on Google App Engine Ken Ashcraft (Google) Once an app is out of development and has thousands or millions of users, a developer needs to...


Working with Google App Engine Models Rafe Kaplan (Google) Google App Engine Datastore Models have a lot in common with existing frameworks such as ActiveRecord and the Django database API. Howeve...	Engaging User Experiences with Google App Engine John Skidgel and Lindsey Simon (Google) Web developers and designers can create full-fledged web applications with Google App Engine. Learn how to ...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 5) - Gears Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:41:14 GMT

Gears Case Studies: Zoho offline on Gears, Buxfer secure and offline finance with Gears Raju Vegesna (Zoho), Ashwin Bharambe and Shashank Pandit (Buxfer) This talk presents two case studies on Gea...	HTML5, Brought to You by Gears Aaron Boodman (Google) HTML5 is a new set of proposed extensions to HTML that radically improve the capabilities of web applications. However, without implementation...


Creating a Client-Side Search Engine with Gears Brad Neuberg (Google) Come see how Gears can be used to create a client-side search engine plugged right into your web page! Learn how to add this f...	Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++ Chris Prince (Google) Google Gears has progressed by leaps since its initial launch -- and in ways that many developers may not realize.