admin | April 14, 2012
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Comparing the different typefaces on phones
Steve Matteson holds up the Nokia Lumia 900, a Windows Phone that features his Segoe UI typeface.
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What makes a great font for a smartphone? Aside from legibility, is it its simplicity, its brand recognition, or the way it influences people’s feelings toward the product? From neutral and casual, to just plain wrong, we sit down with Steve Matteson, typeface designer extraordinaire, to get the lowdown on the typefaces featured in Windows Phone,Android, and iOS devices.
Segoe (UI) for Windows Phone: the beauty in neutralityBefore Matteson, current creative director at Monotype Imaging, designed the typefaces featured on Android and Windows Phone devices, he created the aggressive lettering for Microsoft’sXbox (which was aimed at hardcore gamers), and… Read more…..
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Tags: legibility, neutrality
admin | April 14, 2012
Episode 1: iPhone Sophia is showing off how much more fun and playful she is compared to the stuffy, can only do work, with it’s now outdated hard keyboard, Blackberry Bella. iPhone Sophia has a new touchscreen and jokes around “Oops I didn’t mean to call Japan” while the Blackberry has limited movie viewing and therefore, can’t have any popcorn. PART 2: uk. youtube. com PART 3: www. youtube. com Original Music from www. gscottolson. com He wrote it himself. It is not the official Apple song. Sophia is 4 and Isabella is 2. SUBSCRIBE so we can make more videos! youtube. com TWITTER Where I post our latest news! twitter. com FACEBOOK facebook. com © by Mugglesam. All rights reserved. Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording will constitute an infringement of copyright.
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admin | April 13, 2012
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Here are the top ways in which to speed boost your Android phone as of April 2012
Launcher
There are a few primary launchers that most people use on the Android platform. By the way, this applies to most Android phones Pre-Ice Cream Sandwich.
After playing with all of them I found GO launcher to be the quickest and gave the smoothest scrolling experience. some argue that it lacks features that the others have, but we’re after speed here and I still use it to this day.
Clean Cache
This will remove any temporary files that you no longer use and should give a slight speed boost. Here’s an easy way how:
Download the app ‘Android Assistant’ from the market. once downloaded open the app and go to the ‘tools’ tab at… Read more…..
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