Multi-touch Technology: Will Left-Handed People be “Left Out” again?

As one of my increasingly favorite tech writers, Mary Jo Foley, at ZDNET points out, Microsoft’s been long and hard at work at Codename "Milan," a multi-touch interface which is really starting to look like the evolution of the mouse and keyboard (Milan has a keyboard baked in) if Microsoft and Chris Pirillo ever get Windows Vista’s speech recognition figured out. 🙂

There has been work on this technology since the 80’s but that’s not stopped Apple’s from filing an arsenal of patents on the multi-touch technology, and the first fruit from their multi-touch technology will come in the form of their iPhone, with simple two finger picture zoom tech which is pretty neat, but present in all of the various multi-touch technologies. As a left-handed person, an avid geek, and a gadget aficionado, I’m wondering if R&D folks from any of these companies will finally get the left handed interface down.

The most blaring example of this is the scroll bar. Scroll bars are all on the right hand side. Any left handed people out there who are interested in trying to be productive while using a tablet PC or Pocket PC with a stylus should forget about it! You have to use your right hand finger for the scroll bar because if you use the stylus to scroll down your hand is in the way of everything you are trying to read while scrolling. I could and probably should go onto other flaws in interface design that could be worked around but I am short on time.  

I’ve complained to Microsoft about the (scrollbar + left handed + stylus = problem) problem since Pocket PC 2003 and even Windows Mobile 2006 doesn’t have a "Move the Scroll bar to the left hand side" option.

Bootleg Windows Mobile 6 Screenshot

Something seemingly so simple to do, and yet Microsoft hasn’t done anything to help us left-handed folks out… I’ve been doing a lot of research into the not so new multi-touch technology, and I am beginning to understand all of the complex math that goes into making some of these gestures work. This will make it more expensive to design the extra code for left handed usability and left handed people will most likely learn to use the technology as a right handed person. At first glance, it does seem like there would be an equal experience because you are using both hands, that’s simply not true. The Nature of some gestures will favor the right hand and for instance, research shows that left handed folks excel at the QUERTY keyboard, and fall well behind in many English classes because it takes us a lot more effort to have good handwriting and we are not properly to write in our school systems. These same fundamental design flaws will probably present in multi-touch even though we’ll end up with something better than the toolbar/stylus combo in today’s systems.

If not for the keyboard, I don’t think I would have done as well as I have for myself as I have so far, and I hope these companies start to realize that more and more people are being born left handed, a phenomenon that not completely explainable, not to mention that studies show that there is some positive correlation between left handed people and income and other attributes both positive and sometimes negative.

 

If anyone will nail multi-touch for left-handed people it has to be Apple. Having said that, they don’t have any multi-touch products available on the market either. But I have a few clues which tell me they will be left handed friendly. First, Apple has the creative types, second they have a few pictures out there that give me hope. Their mini-Safari Browser doesn’t appear to have any scroll bar, and if you go to www.apple.com/iPhone and then click on High Technology, and then Multi-touch, it shows a left hand. Woot! But still an iPhone is no computer and I can’t even design any programs to run on the freaking thing.

        Apple iPhone Multi-touch (left hand using)               

 

                     Apple iPhone Safari Browser

 

With multi touch technology, table-top computing, and other great technology like this 3D air-mouse starting to get some attention I am hoping for the best, but I’m not holding my breath. Having said that, I’ve never used any multi-touch technology, (the closest thing to this type of technology that I’ve used, or is even commercially available is a Nintendo Wii), and even that is designed for right handed people.

3D Air Mouse (Source: Gizmag)        

Microsoft Table-top Computing            

Table Top Computer

  

 

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Joost is a Serious Disruptive Technology

From the ISPs think they should get a cut of this department, Joost, which I have really been digging into is just great. More important, I feel that with the proper programming it can become the definite standard for IPTV Services. Now having said that, Joost has made it obvious that TV is going to be free at the baseline, and unless Microsoft or Apple can come though with a killer IPTV solution for free, Joost is going to be the next Skype if you will. I am totally impressed! The one thing that’s kind of annoying is commercials happen at random times. I was watching some french Ultimate Fighting type stuff on the fighting channel and right in the middle of the best round it cut to commercial. Thank god everything in the background paused but still.

Good stuff Joost and congratulations on such a great platform.

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Google to Launch Universal Search, and a Slew of New Improvements

Google has told "A-list" bloggers today and some elite members of the press–at a press event dubbed search|ology–a number of improvements are coming to Google. The most important of which is called Universal Search. With Google Universal Search, results will be blended into your search from other vertical search engines in Google like Google Image search, Google Book Search. The blending means that the Google Onebox will slowly be unemphasize and the results will look more organic, no matter which part of Google they’ve come from. Also of note:

• Completely Revamped Navigation with the main tabs on Google.com going to the top of the page instead of directly next to the search box where your cursor never goes, because the Google box gets "Auto Focus" when you head to Google’s page. Auto Focus means that instead of having to click on the search box, after you type in www.Google.com you can start typing your search right away without the need to click on the search box. As you type, your cursor is most likely still up by the address bar, where the new nav buttons will be. Google Navigation bar will be pretty useful I think, here’s a screenshot.

Image: Google Navigation Bar

          

• Google Experimental: Has launched. You can customize the layout of Google, so check it out for yourself. I would assume that Google will be paying attention to what the majority of users do here and then they can utilize those numbers into their usability studies. This stuff is brilliant. I really like Google’s answer to Microsoft’s unlimited scroll function, by not using the mouse at all (keyboard shortcuts), perhaps we have even a better front end to search. I still think Microsoft has a better front end to search though. http://www.Google.com/experimental/index.html

1. Timeline and Map Views
2. Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Left-hand search Navigation
4. Right-hand Contextual Search Navigation

• Meta Video Search: Google will start searching outside YouTube again.
• Enhanced Meaning search: Words like runs = running doesn’t work in all contexts though. Google’s done a lot of quantitative analysis on this subject and they have some improved stuff coming.

Some links. Search Engine Land’s Coverage:  TechCrunch’s Coverage:

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What a Crazy Day for Tech!

• First, Engadget gets a bogus spoofed email from Apple stating the iPhone was getting pushed back a quarter and that the next version of OSX "Leopard" was getting pushed to January, which sent Apple’s stock tumbling down 4 billion dollars! That’s a sad day for a lot of folks who probably lost a good deal of their retirement money on buying and selling at the wrong time.
• Amazon issues a press release stating it’s also launching DRM-FREE MP3 downloads from all of EMI’s labels and more than 12,000 other labels. Looks like customers are finally getting what they demand and deserve, I might actually buy some music online now.
• GigaOM gives 20,000 Joost invites to it’s readers! Thanks a lot! Joost rules!

 

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Microsoft to Create Zune City

Okay, bad title which isn’t funny. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a reference to the much talked about iPod city in China where like many other factories in China, had almost unspeakable living conditions. Companies wishing to keep their brand value and good will values in the United States have learned a lot since then, and I’m no expert, but I believe progress still needs to be made. The lower middle class folks in china are living lives not unlike those of the people in the United States about 100 years ago. The people of China don’t have nearly the standard of living that we did though.

Anyhow, Microsoft is feeling very strong about it’s Zune’s future because it’s investing millions of dollars in order to directly compete with Apple on price without loosing money. Microsoft has failed where Apple has succeeded in hardware. Even though the Xbox 360 is the number one selling next gen console (perhaps the Wii has passed it up by now?) it has failed miserably to turn a profit. The 360 has done better than it’s predecessor at making money but it costs money to churn out hardware. Marketwatch is reporting that Microsoft’s new Zune’s will be much nicer than their older bothers and sister devices.

The second iteration of Zune will include a number of different versions with varying prices and degrees of storage capacity, according to Jason Reindorp, Microsoft’s marketing director for Zune, although he declined to offer specifics. Web sites that follow the device have reported rumors that the newest versions of the Zune will be thinner and will include some smaller-capacity Flash-based players, similar to the popular iPod nano.

The need to release the first Zune before last year’s holiday season "forced us to take a look around at what was on the shelf, that we could take and customize so it was Zune and get it out there," Reindorp said. That condensed schedule led to the partnership with Toshiba, he said.

For the second version, however, Reindorp said the company wanted greater control.

Reindorp said the new manufacturing partner is "a partner we’re very familiar with." Unlike the role Toshiba played, this partner will assemble only parts brought to it by Microsoft, and according to Microsoft’s specifications, Reindorp said.

The company’s most high-profile manufacturing endeavor to date has been for the Xbox console. Microsoft said in 2002 it would significantly reduce production costs for the Xbox by moving some assembly at that time from Hungary to Document, China, located in the southern Guangdong province.

The new Zune facility is also located in Document, Reindorp said.

In addition to the Xbox, other hardware produced by Microsoft includes peripherals such as keyboards.

"The switching of the manufacturer is not going to bring changes for the sake of changes," Reindorp said

I love to see some heat put on the iPod because let’s face it there hasn’t been any. We live in a world where most of the media which exists doesn’t play on most of the devices. If it were not for MP3s which have horrible bitrate to quality ratios, we would have no common format in which to put our collections.

 

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My XDA Exec (HTC Universal) Radio Died, in the Market for a New Mobile!

This radio has been shoddy since the day I ebayed it. EBay is great but sometimes it’s like a box of chocolates. So my 600 dollar investment in the (at the time) 1200.00 dollar Xda Exec, also known as an HTC Universal didn’t pay off. I have another phone with a not so hot radio on it, my MPX200, which runs an outdated but usable Windows Mobile 2002 Smartphone Edition. I pop my Sim card in it, and I get the dreaded, enter SIM password. Which means that the supplier of my cell phone has the sim radio locked via hardware encryption. This isn’t very cool though, because I was originally an AT&T wireless customer, I was forced onto the "Orange Plan" Cingular, and now the phone I purchased from the same store, is locked by the same company from which I purchased the phone. I figured a trip to the local Cingular shop would solve my woes, but my own injuries were just insulted.

I was greeted at the door by a cocky sales person who after noting I still had thirteen months on my contract, not only insulted me over the principles of my AT&T MPX 200 not working on the Cingular Network because of SimLock, he wouldn’t unlock the phone, he wouldn’t even cut me any sort of break on any phone in the entire store. I asked him what was the cheapest phone he sold, he pointed at a crappy looking low end Java phone and said something in the ballpark of 180.00 dollars.

This is the last time I’ll sign a contract no matter how much they seem to make sense. I’ll only buy unlocked phones and I’m going to start bouncing around networks to see what I like. Unfortunately, not all phones will work on all networks in the states, and I have to either hop on the Cingular, TMobile bandwagon, or I have to hop over to the Sprint Verizon side of the road. This is because there is not a universal cell phone communications technology. To make matters worse, the phones that work mostly with carriers in the United States, work less in Europe. CDMA and quad band phones are required for worldwide travel to many places where all of the companies have not signed cross network deals.

MY HTC Universal or XDA Exec (Radio Not working, hardware, otherwise in decent shape)

 

There are five different ideas floating around in my head.

1. Be smart, not an early adopter, pony up a few bucks for a low end unlocked phone from Ebay, keep it, knowing that most of the people on this planet would love this lovely phone.
2. Buy a nice WM5 phone that won’t cost me too much but won’t make me as happy considering I owned an XDA Exec before.
3. Buy an iPhone. I’d be tossing out my current investment in Windows Mobile Smartphone including great things like the RSS reader I’ve fallen in love with.
4. Buy a crappy phone, and then wait until the HTC Advantage hits e-shelves.
5. Buy a crappy phone, and then wait for a few of the new UMPC’s hit the e-e-shelves, ditch my laptop in meetings, look much cooler than anyone sporting even an iPhone or the new Blackberry coming out. 

Apple iPhone

 

HTC Advantage

 

 

Both phones side by side (this isn’t an XDA Exec on the right, but is the same phone pretty much, an HTC Universal)

 

HTC Shift Running Vista Business Edition (Why not home premium 😦 Can I upgrade with my spare copy of Vista Ultimate?)

More HTC Shift (more shots)

Give Samsung a try? This UMPC looks cool, and it runs Vista Home Premium instead of Business! I never owned a PC so I don’t know which is more important in a UMPC. Certainly I won’t carry my entire music and movie collections but on this screen what is the difference if you watch a movie on MCE or WMP?

 

 

Ultimately, I know any decision I make except the first one will be a bad one. In one perspective, I know that any of the things you see pictured here are bad investments, I try to look at the early adopter thing as something which helps me project my thoughts into the future. If I were using technology that was outdated all of the time, chances are, I wouldn’t be a very good innovator. Innovating in a large company doesn’t pay well, it might look good on a resume, but it sure doesn’t pay well. As always, I welcome any thoughts that you fine readers might have. Any advise or reviews (especially first hand on any of these products or other products which are similar.) I know Blackberries are really cool, but I can’t get over the fact that I can’t tie back into my Windows investment. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if the government mandated that each and every technology that is newly created must be interpolative with all standards, and whether that would increase the rate in which we advance technologically, or decrease the rate of advancement.

 

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Time for Microsoft to Play Fair

Larry Augustin’ Weblog is pretty much a consensus for what I’ve been hearing around the Internet. Everyone is upset that Microsoft asserts that all of it’s intellectual property is being violated, and yet they won’t even point out what these infractions are.

Gutierrez and Microsoft aren’t interested in intellectual property rights.  They’re not interested in allowing the Open Source world to defend itself. They’re not interested in a fair fight.  Like a bully, they refuse to face the Open Source world in a fair fight, instead hinting at willful infringement and making backhanded threats.  Why?  Like any bully they fear that when faced with a fair fight in the light of day they will be revealed for the bully they are.  Like any bully they fear that which they threaten.

I work with many companies that have partnerships with Microsoft. For many years I’ve tried to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and watched them slowly move from anti-Open Source to an Open Source supporter, or at least a company that recognizes the importance of Open Source ISVs to the future of the Windows platform.  But this bullying has to stop now.

Now there is a difference between shop talk and what you say to Forbes Magazine. Perhaps Microsoft is just now starting to form their strategy and so they will point out these infractions. In the meantime, the whole world suffers in the face of fear caused by the unknown, no one likes a threatening lawyer sitting across the table who’s only goal is to destroy you.

 

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Patent Armageddon has Arrived! The Cold War is Over!

Microsoft is going to make people pay to use Linux? Wow, this isn’t good news for computer enthusiasts like myself who have fallen in love with Linux. This is a huge blow to companies like the ones who Make Ubuntu, and I fear the backlash that will come back to Microsoft is not one they desire. Still, I haven’t given enough thought to it. While I don’t have any software patents which I’ve invented, I do have a business method patent which was recently filed with the USPTO.GOV. I also have some new novel approaches to big business and business methods which my company seems very interested in so far and so I might have more patents on the way. And so I know the thousands and thousands of thankless, uncompensated hours of my life that I’ve poured into a new way of doing business that I feel will completely change an entire industry.

Those ideas are no where to be found on this planet and if someone was to steal it from me (my company owns it) I’d surely not be happy. Business method patents are a bit different than Software patents and I’m afraid that this is just going to push Linux use into offshore outfits in South America and the real innovators–many of them in the United States and Europe–will boycott Microsoft completely and wholeheartedly.

Recently I wrote about a company who was suing Microsoft for infringing on it’s patents. As an exercise I read through it, not being an expert and just tried to see what "Product" existed in which was claimed infringing upon and tried to see if I could determine if the patent was something they invented. I’m plainly stated I was just trying to understand Patent language more and I fear I must have upset the company but that wasn’t my intent. If their approach was novel it needs protected as long as they are trying to get it to market and are not preying on hardworking developers. Most of me wants to agree with Ballmer is as much as I feel those who create something novel deserve to be rewarded for their hard work. I just haven’t had enough time to let it sink in yet, if all this means is I have to use openSUSE in my own business then that’s fine but I hate what it’s going to do to the best thing since the Internet itself. Linux.

Dell, are you going to be the first to pay for selling Linux? Did Dell do this? Did Google do this? Damn, this sucks. Here comes the horde.

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Windows Live Folders Beta

This new beta service that let’s you control free online storage (1/2 gig for starters) opened up today and when it was discovered, subsequently shut down. Users will have Personal folders, Shared folders and Public Folders. Pretty self explanatory, especially to users of Windows Live Messenger who already have the ability to share folders. However, with Windows Live Folders beta users will be able to determine the roles of other users much like you can with an active directory object. Google and most likely Yahoo! are both working on similar products. Google’s offering is dubbed by most "Gdrive,"  which I blogged about almost 2 years ago where Jonathan Schwartz was talking about integrating some version of Star or OpenOffice right into Google’s online Storage. Let me pull an excerpt of what he said way back in 2005:

Jonathan Schwartz: "A Simple Future"

The two features every single user needs are: Save, and Open. So wouldn’t it be interesting if rather than exploring your local file system on your local PC, the Save and Open panels simply looked to a network account on Sun’s Grid? Shareable like any of the mainstream photo services are today? Or how about saving to that 2.5Gb allowance Google gave you in your GMail account? And wouldn’t it be great if you could save to ODF, or translate to Microsoft Word, or generate a podcast or mp3 file – on the fly? From within any app?

I think it’s great, Sun always has the vision! I wish they would execute more…

Windows Live Folders (Formally Codename: Live Drive) Preview Screenshot via Liveside.net 

Privacy? I’ve not read any fine print but I’m sure the service will dish up ads depending on what type of data is stored. A small price to pay for free storage that follows you without a keychain.

Usage: Right off the rip, sharing photos with family, music piracy (not me but I’m just saying, keep you hands off of mine, I mean the RIAA’s collection), Small Video sharing, small business can use it for collaboration of documents, and I’m sure all you smart folks will think of a million other reasons to use it including hotlinking ala, photobucket or similar service. (No Guarantee that will work) Also, no word on any API tie-ins. The Internet it getting better and better every day. Get a better review at Liveside for scoopage or head over to the official site if you only like your skinny from the source. 

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The Most Idiotic Use of a Lawyers Brain I’ve seen in my Lifetime

I’ve seen patents, called products, I’ve seen e-slime, e-dumb, and many other things. I’ve read the work of some real e-tarded folks, especially recently, but it feels like the damn is getting ready to break when I read this interpretation of the DMCA, which needs nullified or completely redrafted btw. Sue happy people need to be put in jail unless they have a legitimate case. Patent trolls, lawyers looking for ways to make money off of others success, and all those kinds of people are all the same and they all need put on some island far away where they can all sue each other for the "big nothing" that they all produce. I say that out of the kindness of my heart. 😛

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