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• Apple Working on 3D Interface

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 15 Dec 2008 at 9:13

  Type

  Blog Entry

  AppleInsider last week reported about a series of patent filings by Apple detailing a potential 3D interface for Mac OS X. The multidimensional interface features a number of ways to organise windows, applications, and more. Overall, the 3D interface makes an attempt to utilise better the larger monitors available on the market. You can read the original post on AppleInsider for all of the specific details of the 3D interface. I've often wondered where interfaces will go next. Graphical interfaces have constantly been improving over the …

• Designing Lowter's Admin Interface

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 8 Dec 2008 at 11:29

  Type

  Blog Entry

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  Here at Lowter, we finally have a few pieces of our new administration interface, something we have needed for months. When we moved from Ottoman to our own custom-coded system, I never actually coded an admin interface to accompany it. Everything was managed through PHPMyAdmin, directly adding content into our MySQL database. Awful idea I know. Now though, we have the ability to administer most of our day-to-day content on Lowter. One of the aspects of our new admin interface that I settled on right away is having the design extremely sim…

• Specific Password Requirements

  Author

  Frans de Jonge

  Date

  Fri 28 Nov 2008 at 15:21

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Republished from The One with the Thoughts of Frans. Have you ever visited a website with specific password requirements? Nearly every website has requirements for minimum length. Various websites want capital letters, numbers, or - more commonly - both. In itself, this isn't so bad, but I keep forgetting all of these requirements. Websites should list their password requirements on places other than when creating an account and when changing said password. I don't want it to pollute the main page or the login interface, but when I ente…