Back in June, Apple announced that it was going to start avoiding skeuomorphism. Skeuomorphism is not some contagious disease; it’s a design principle that, when…
OPLIN 4cast #348: Goodbye, Skeuomorphs
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Back in June, Apple announced that it was going to start avoiding skeuomorphism. Skeuomorphism is not some contagious disease; it’s a design principle that, when…
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We have a confession to make. We used to chuckle at people using the library photocopier who carefully compare their fresh copy to their original…
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Tomorrow it will be exactly a year since we wrote about 3D printers, now one of the staples of Maker Spaces in libraries. But for…
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Shooting video with your smartphone is about to take on a whole new dimension with the advent of 360-degree lenses you can attach to your…
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There was an interesting posting on the codeinsecurity blog a little over a month ago, which we didn’t see until recently, called “The anti-virus age…
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The next big technology excitement looks like it may be the advent of smart watches – or maybe not. Smart watches in themselves are probably…
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Last month, Amazon decided to try to make some money by legitimizing “fan fiction,” the growing trend for fans of a story or book series…
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People who use Internet searches to place products in front of potential buyers pay a lot of attention to how the rest of us use…
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The recent revelation of the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, which the U.S. government has used to access people’s phone and Internet search data, has caused…
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Google has a lot of power to control which websites receive web traffic and which don’t, simply by altering the way they present search results.…