Wednesday, March 19, 2008

iphone sdk available

I've been working on the UIST paper and getting side tracked looking at new iPhone developer stuff. All objective C and very swish too, I could get something working quick but I think lots of other developers would have a steeper learning curve. 

Makes me wonder what I might write if I had the inclination to make an application for cash. Something weby mashupy comes to mind but does this use the multi touchness? Some ideas are leaking into my mind but nothing definite. 

Friday, March 7, 2008

In recovery

I have been down with Flu for last 4 days totally unable to move. Now feeling raw but in recovery. UIST is getting too close.

I was wondering about spam. Why hasn't anyone just invented a more secure email protocol one that checks that sender is the sender when sending mail and delivers it by a separate mechanism?
OK you need a new email browser for a while but I guess most people would be happy to do this if it got rid of needless junk email. I'm not asking much, we already need a password to check email why no to send it as well?