西湖荷花

Part1

Dear Apple,

While it’s clear the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market right now, you have a lot of competition creeping up. We want to help you blow them out of the water with the iPhone OS 4.0. Here are our suggestions: 

1. The lock screen needs to change. 

90% of us want a new lock screen. We think the current screen that only shows the date and time, and only the most recent missed call or SMS, is not particularly helpful. If you get a text message, then a calendar alert, and then a push notification, the only one you see is the push notification message. Being able to swipe through them or have a table list would be far more useful. But even then, we still have to enter our four-digit unlock code to see if we’ve received any new emails. From the new lock screen we want to see all the calls we’ve missed and the number of new emails and texts we have. We want to see which apps have sent us push notifications, and what appointments are coming up. We want a brief overview of all the new data we’ve received to be presented to us before we have to enter our unlock code. 

Let’s extend the features of that new lock screen to … 

2. A new home screen. The iPhone is the smartest phone on the market. Make it smarter. Introduce a location-aware home screen. 

Over 90% of us also want a new home screen – and we want it location aware. Let’s say we live in London, but travel to continental Europe many times a month. We’d love to turn on our iPhones in the country we just landed in and see the local weather, currency, transit maps, and news displayed right on our home screens. Not only would it save us time and money, it would save something just as valuable to an iPhone owner – battery life. If all these things were displayed on the home screen the first time you turn on your phone, you wouldn’t have to open five different applications to get what you want. 

Imagine a ‘Genius Location’ feature as well: the iPhone would show you (through an app like Yelp – or a new Apple-branded app) what restaurants or businesses are around based on your ‘likes’ in your home town. We know you were granted a ‘Transitional Data Sets‘ patent for a location-based home screen back in February 2008 – let’s hope this sees the light of day in iPhone OS 4.0. 

 3. That new home screen? Let us access it by vertically swiping. 

Imagine this: no matter what home screen page you’re on, if you swipe up you are presented with a ‘feeds screen’ that works much like an RSS page. This feeds screen could be set based on in-app preferences so we could fully customize it. Ours might show our latest Facebook posts, last five emails received, our To Do notes, our Mint.com balance, missed calls, text messages, and upcoming iCal events. The guys at teehan+lax have a pretty cool mock-up of this feeds screen, but the killer feature would be how you could access it from any app page – by vertically swiping. 

4. Overhaul app navigation. 

85% of us think it takes too long to swipe through all our pages of apps. Even though iTunes 9 made a step in the right direction by allowing the user to organize apps and home screen pages visually, there has got to be a better way. Swiping through ten screens to get to the last apps page is tedious. 

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could press the home button and see all the home pages on one screen? The guys at Ocean Observations think so. Check out this concept video of what this feature would look like (their ‘Cover Flow Multitasking‘ concept is quite cool as well). Don’t want to do it their way? Give us stacks, give us folders, give us App Store-like category views. Just give us something that makes it easier to get around our deluge of apps. 

5. 85% of us want multitasking and 3rd party background apps (but not at the cost of battery life). 

There’s not much more to say on this matter, but Palm does it, and if you can find a way around their battery drain, we want it! 

6. Almost 80% of us want Flash, even if it’s a bad idea. 

No, not camera flash (we do, but that’s for the next letter). We want Adobe’s Flash Player, though Flash on the Mac is a giant performance and stability headache. Get your heads together with Adobe and make it happen (and fix the Mac version while you’re about it, please). 

7. We love that you introduced landscape mode across virtually all apps in iPhone OS 3.0, but 70% of us want the ability to selectively turn it off. 

Give us a setting to switch off the automatic “turn to landscape mode” when the device is turning. Why? When we lay in bed on our side we can’t read our mail. The app is always turning and that’s really annoying. A system-wide ‘ignore orientation’ switch would be a good start; app-by-app options would be better. 

8. When we leave an app, we want it to remember where we were. 

If we click on a link in an app that takes us to Safari or if we switch apps to copy/paste, 70% of us want the app to remember where we were in it when we come back to it. Some apps do this, some don’t. Make this an OS-level feature so they all do it. 

That Stocks app? Cute, but the Yahoo! Finance [iTunes] app is so much better. We don’t need both on our phones. 

10. 60% of us want a universal “documents” folder. 

We want one location, accessible to all apps, to store documents on the iPhone. Whether we need to send that PDF via IM through Nimbuzz or via email through the built-in Mail app, it’s no problem. Either one can do it because the docs are all stored in one place, accessible to all apps. (We realize this breaks the sandboxing model that prevents one app from blowing away data belonging to another one, but we have every confidence you can make it work.)

11. Better Support for Codecs and Add-ons. 

It’s not just Flash, you know. WMV and AVI still rule on lots of sites. Let us see them (60%). 

12. The iPhone is a hard drive with a screen, so…. 

Give us Disk mode in the OS. 50% of us want to use our iPhone as an external USB/Wi-Fi hard drive. 

Sincerely,

The loyal readers and iPhone owners of TUAW.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Part1

 

Dear Apple,

 

While your hottest competitor isn’t off to the best start, that could change on a dime. Most smartphone users, it seems, use the same apps. So what differentiates the phones? Well, the OS and the hardware. We already addressed the OS. Now let’s talk hardware. Here’s what we’d love to see: 

1. Status indicator light.  

90% of us want this. Some of us think a series of green dots (ala the MacBook’s battery indicator lights) that flash when we have a new text or voicemail message would be cool, while some of us want a pulsating light like the sleep light on a MacBook. A few of us even think an illuminated Apple logo that pulsates when we’ve missed a call would be novel. While you may laugh at the last suggestion, it illustrates the fact that we’re dying for a status indicator light in some form. 

2. A new design casing.  

90% of us think the 3G and 3GS are starting to look their age (and hey, in tech, a device that hasn’t changed looks in 18 months looks ancient). We want a thinner casing – approaching iPod touch thinness, if possible (a tough request, we know, considering how much room the radios take up in the iPhone). We also want the new iPhone casing to have a look that mimics the industrial design of the aluminum unibody finish on the MacBooks – in other words, we love this mock-up Gizmodo did. 

3. Front-facing camera.  

80% of us want a front-facing video chat camera. Why? Because 80% of us believe we are good-looking enough that the people we talk to want to see us. It might also be good for conference calls: turn the iPhone to its side and see up to three people on your screen at once. 

4. LED flash.  

Yeah, 75% of us believe the iPhone blows at taking low-light pictures. It’s not exactly unreasonable to ask for a flash on phones nowadays. 

5. 5MP+ camera.  

70% of us want a new 5MP camera (or above) to go along with that new LED flash. 

6. OLED display.  

70% of us think the iPhone’s 320×480 screen is a little too dainty for today’s standards. We want a higher screen resolution to make our text and games pop and we think that higher res should be 480×800 on an OLED display for its clarity, thinness, and battery saving abilities. 

7. 64GB storage.  

We’ve downloaded over 3 billion apps. Add those to the video we’re now recording on our iPhones, in addition to all our songs and photos, and one thing seems becomes obvious: 32GB doesn’t seem enough anymore. 60% of us ask that you plop 64GB of flash RAM in the next iPhone. 

8. 802.11n.  

We’re dying to have Wi-Fi syncing, but we realize that 802.11g might not be fast enough. 50% of us want faster wireless so we can sit on our couch and sync the latest photos and videos we took with our iPhone to the computer in the den. 

9. RFID.  

Why? Besides some pretty cool near-object-based interaction, imagine the next iPhone eliminating the need to carry car keys or credit cards. Key fobs and ‘smart’ credit cards use a type of RFID called Near Field Communication. NFC consumes very little power, so it’s attractive to add to mobile phones. Instead of using our keys to enter that new Prius, imagine just having the doors auto-unlock when we get in range of our car, or by launching an app. 

Better yet, let us leave our wallets at home. What if Apple teamed with Visa or MasterCard? We download the Visa app and use it to review our purchase right on the screen, then we simply swipe our iPhone at checkout and we’re on our way. And we’re sure you guys at Apple wouldn’t mind take a half percentage point of every transaction too (from the credit card companies, not us!). You’ve already redefined the music, movie, mobile, and (soon enough) publishing industries. We think the credit card companies could use some Apple ingenuity as well. 

10. Multi-touch casing.  

This one seemed like a long shot until recent rumors, but 40% of us would like to see some Magic Mouse-type love applied to the iPhone. The iPhone has a lot of surface area that isn’t the screen. What if this currently un-utilized area could be transformed into a multi-touch surface? Imagine each side by the home button and speaker slit as a multi-touch area. When playing a video game in landscape mode, this new multi-touch surface could be used as physical buttons for some games, saving the display from your fingers and allowing you to see more of the action on screen. 

So there you have it: our suggestions for future iPhone hardware. But we’re not done. We’ve got a lot to say about the iPhone’s built-in apps. So get ready, and thanks for listening. You’ll be hearing from us again soon.

 

Sincerely,

The loyal readers and iPhone owners of TUAW. 

 

 

 

 

下面有段视频，基本可以知道它的UI了，说实话，UI要推敲的地方针是多，在中国就是这样，常常做的不怎样，有了高科技的技术上去，然后很快推广。
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功能其实很简单就是一个读报系统，进去之后可以切换不同的报纸，阅读报纸，里面有个画笔的功能不知道做什么的，我们试了好几次都没有反应。
可以切换主题（Theme），切换的瞬间，你会看到后台XP的桌面，这个不知算不算一个bug。
它的使用指南是和读报系统并行的，你想看使用指南，必须退回去，才能找到。
在不影响使用的情况下，最后就是视觉感受了，图标很大，不够精致，抽取图形概念也不是很到位，颜色太跳跃，花花的界面，跟报纸，尤其像是普通的黑白灰报纸，对比鲜明！

终端，触摸终端，早已经渗透到各行各业中，你去银行，排队有排队机，取点现钞，触摸的ATM机，去high一下，KTV里有触摸的点歌台，地铁里有自助卖票的和导航找路的，累了，打个车，椅背后有广告互动终端，远门开车，有触摸的GRPS……

随着多点触摸技术，有新的产品出来，也有旧产品的更新换代！
以后，每天来回，可以很方便的去新闵图了，但愿，新馆子引入了些新书，莘庄附近的朋友们有福了！

佬佬来车站接我们，爸爸他们的船停在位于高邮城东最大的粮库（五里坝粮库，也叫亿斤粮库）里面，一上船，邻居的船上的人就来串门了，家家都很热闹，在外的都回到父母身边，很温馨！

下午，我带Nick去高邮湖，他从没去过，上次带他去了文游台、魁星閣、高邮老街和古邮城驿站。高邮，很小很简单的，老街还保留着原来的样子，有点破破烂烂，小时候，老家的老街也是这样，但后来陆续拆了，变了。

高中的时候，我经常一个人湖边晒晒太阳，吹吹风，看看书很舒服。湖边会有雨腥味，帆船点点，我喜欢一望无边的感受。
佬佬说他也去，我看他精神很好，那就去吧。他很有意思，一上车就睡着了，可能是因为中午喝了点小酒，我们到了二桥，他就醒了，脸上带点微红，一点不像80多岁的人。我挽着佬佬的手臂，祖孙3人开始游湖了。太久没有来了，很兴奋。

冬天水位低，有些人在晒湖边干涸后搜集来的菱角，我们跟他们聊了会，得知他们来自安徽，这些菱角会用来做菱粉，好像当饲料用，勤劳的人们呀。


佬佬跟我讲他年轻时，有次从湖里出发，开船去湖对面，也就是安徽那边的故事。湖底水深不一，也没有在这么大的湖里行驶的经验，那个时候的船也只有10+T，然后找个渔船带路，他们的船拖着小渔船。佬佬那是经常江里来去的，经历以及很丰富了，但这么大的湖，也吃不准。回程的时候，还是渔船带路，等隐隐约约看到这边的塔，他们就开到希望了。我不大善于描述，佬佬说的比我惊险多了，嘿嘿。

我们从北往南走，到了南边，之前的小村庄已经没强制搬迁了，说要发这里的旅游，但是并没有开发出来。而且雨腥味也没了，之前，渔民会在村门口补网晒鱼，却是缺少了一点人情味。很大一块草坪，高邮周围工业不发达，高邮湖，没有任何污染，水质很好，但愿不要搞什么工业开发，旅游业还是可以的。搞得高尔夫球场，2、3幢别墅，搞个游艇俱乐部，美的来。现在只有草坪了。


渔船们还在!

很冷的冬季，继续捕鱼！

古运河中的镇国寺一游，除了塔之外，其他都是新修的。塔式唐代建的，多亏周总体特批，才不至于在运河改道建设中拆掉。元旦，香火很旺，来玩的人也很多哟。

运河，其实这里是后来改道修出来的，河堤的白色也是新修的，运河河堤是当年最繁华忙碌的古道，古城、驿站就在旁边。小时候，家里的船也经常停在这里，我基本就是在这边长大的。

河堤和镇国寺本来连接在一起的，后来运河改道才跟高邮城分开的，下图是古道，远方就是高邮湖。塔一直就是孤立在运河中间，现在修了镇国寺，有了桥廊，连接起来了。


天色已晚，坐摆渡，渡口还是那么破。回到城里，城口，有卖鱼虾的，银鱼、白虾，很新鲜，价格更是公道，玩得很开心！市区，变化还是很大，多了很多店和房子，但愿家乡的人们生活越来越好。

什么时候用到？
设计正式开始之前，产品的需求和目标用户应该有清晰的说明和定义，下一步，就是整理、头脑风暴和做一些极富创造力的事情，接下来的产品应该怎么样才能满足需求，也包括审美和视觉上的需要。视觉设计师要做的工作就是搜集素材，定义视觉感受，进而定位主色调（Hue）和调色（Color Palette）

ColourLovers （中文版）
如此中英文都有网站，不为多见！调色板（Color Palette），样式（Pattern），色彩趋势（Trend），更有论坛（Forums）、博客（Blogs）、小组（Groups）等互动方式，尽可能让你了解和分享更多的色彩信息，启发你的灵感。你还可以订阅它，方便吧！

COPASO
来自ColourLovers在线配色工具，完工之后，可以下载哟！

 Adobe Kuler

The Color Wizard
它好在可以直接帮你按照6种模式配色，Monochromatic（单色），Analogous（类似色，邻近色），Triadic（3色），Tetradic（4色），Complimentary（互补色）,Split Complimentary(互补邻近色)

Color Scheme Designer
很酷，6种模式配色，还直接可以查看轻、重色调出来的页面的感觉！

 ColorSchemer
安装版

在线版

Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations

Aviary Toucan Color Editor

Daily Color Sheme
可惜很久没有更新了比较慢，但是可以下载不同版本的Color Scheme，有兴趣的话，订阅一下，省得花时间再去看啦

Color Palette Generator
帮助你从图片生成Color Scheme

Color Hunter

genopal
Find the Righlt Color：可以帮你找个主色；
Get Color from Pictures：从图片生成Color Scheme;
Recolor your Graphics：给你图片改色

Check My Colours
Check一下你的网站配色吧

Color Zilla

ArtTone视觉研究中心 配色宝典
需要工具书，可以买几本，随手可及，当然最重要还是平时注重积累，多练多找感觉！

刚开始全部免费，过了一段时间，新的大片就要钱了。

看频道（电视）：台很多，很少用，因为没那么多时间看电视；换台不方便了，遥控器上似乎没有频道上下按钮。如果有些国外的频道就好了，例如：Discovery。

其他视频：
         1. 比起网络视频网站，它的数量要小很多；
         2. 分类还算清楚，因为量并不是很大；
         3. 清晰度比较高，你可以在家看一些电影，例如：2012；
         4. 开始前有广告，而且时间越来越长了；
         5. 如果你在看电视剧，结束了，提示你是否看下一集，而你正好走开了，它不会默认继续下一集，而是回电视剧简介页面，默认选中高亮的却是最初进这个页面选的那一集，事实上你已经看了好几集，只是临时走开了一下，这时候，你已经不记得你看到下面哪一集了，如果你切换集的时候，每次还得看广告……

其他内容：游戏，教育…… 没有过，麽的空。

会占一定带宽：网速会下降些。

界面：
          1. 现在变成大红大紫，很花哨，不宜识别，对比度弱，常常不知选中高亮框去哪了；
          2. 噪音大，一是设计上花哨，二是广告一直在放；
          3. 图片文字的比例上应该更和谐些 ……
          4. 主界面中最大的那块：点进去是全屏打广告，我还以为进入可以点广告中的某个的呢，其实非也。你只能用遥控器来返回，再想想那个广告中东西应该是在哪个分类……

操作：基本就是用遥控器移动选中框，太慢了，方式很死板。遥控器不好看，跟这个时代的产品设计相差一大截，还是很白的颜色。

如果正好装修房子：记得设计和预留好接口，事先布好线，多留个网口，这样以后如果想接IPTV就方便了，它是接在路由器的。据说有无线机顶盒，到处都是辐射……

讯泰管理顾问（INFORMA TELECOMS & MEDIA）05年做的的IPTV全球分析报告，稍微有点老，有兴趣可以看看的：

纽约运动场PlayAroudNYC
搜集了纽约市附近可以运动和玩耍的地方的质量和分布数据，使用可爱的粉色(Pink)视觉性的表现的，我感觉充满童趣。
颜色越深说明运动场越好，箭头则指出该地有地方可去运动了。

相较之下，上海，我生活的莘庄附近，可以去运动的地方也不多，顶多就是小区里散散步。如今天气严寒，哪也不想去！

How It Works?
如何工作?

 The first step was assigning playgrounds a quality rating. Currently quality is determined by nearness to major and minor truck routes. Major truck routes cause a slightly greater loss in quality than minor truck routes. Major truck routes affect playgrounds within 300 meters while minor truck routes only affect playgrounds within 200 meters. (Currently other kinds of traffic are not included, which means playgrounds near truck free highways like the FDR get a free pass.)
第一步 给运动场质量评分
离主和次行车路线的距离是决定因素。主要行车路线比次要行车路线带来的负面影响稍微大一些。主要行车路线的影响范围在300米之类，而次要行车路先只有200米。(目前其他种类的交通路线还不包括，例如免费高速附近的运动场)

The second step involves sampling points regularly on the map. The nearest playgrounds, walking distance to these playgrounds, and the quality of these playground are then determined. These factors are combined to assign each point an overall rating which estimates how well that area is supported by playgrounds.
第二步 涉及到定期采样
最近的场地,步行到这些运动场的质量,并确定这些运动场的质量。这些因素综合评分给每个样点一个总体评分，这个评分说明了该地区运动场情况。

Next, the various support ratings are interpolated to generate the PlayaroundNYC playground support map.
最后，各种评分运用到地图上，生成运动场地图。

重点是搜集数据啦！用的是英国著名经济史和经济统计学家安格斯·麦迪森的数据，一家之言，仅供参考以前看到过有日本网友做过类似的，我收集了最新的资料，做了这个更全面的中文版。 

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如今购物渠道那么多，买东西还真是方便，看看我们这麽个小民怎么买的吧。实体店，B2C， 淘宝，缺一不可！

本来设想不在卧室放电视机的，但是冬天来袭，窝在客厅看，冷呀，开空调干，买了个油汀，但还是不如从前躺床上看得舒服呀。终于下决心买个电视机放卧室，我们的卧室不大，也就3×4左右。估计32″的也就足以，但是人就是有点贪心吧，大一吧，反正价格相差不了多少。客厅的32″，Philips，去年十一买的，快6k，现在也就3k左右，掉价忒厉害了。

大小：32-42″，还好没买42″，当初我们设想，如果大>32″，就放在客厅用，其实最后，客厅的观看距离不如卧室大，还只能放卧室
分辨率：当然是要高清1080p
品牌：差不多的都可以，因为技术已经很成熟了
什么时候、去哪买？价格和服务决定吧：
大概我们关注了个把月吧，京东，新蛋，苏宁，国美，永乐，百思买，选择很多的，当然圣诞节、新年了，活动多，力度大些。
京东和新蛋可以随时去网上查到价格，透明方便，还有有限时抢购；苏宁、国美和永乐，一般价格会标得比较高，你也可以去他们的网上看到价格，也偏高，你得去场子看看有没优惠，还价，很麻烦；
新蛋查价格也很方便，有些商品价格也很诱人；
百思买，不能查价格，但是可以在线看到活动的宣传册，购物环境，服务很好，我一般出去逛，如果边上有个百思买，还是愿意过去兜兜的，比起太平洋、百脑汇的嘈杂，要好多了；
“延保服务”- 京东、新蛋和百思买有“延保服务”，买了就多一份保障了；
“以旧换新”- 如果家里有个老机器，来个以旧换新，可以省一些，而且可以把老机器给处理掉，但不是所有地方都有这个服务的。

百思买买了机器： 我们看到百思买在线宣传册上的一款价格很好，然后去了莘庄的百思买。
徐家汇刚开业的时候，人很多，里面服务也很好，这种体验型的销售方式，的确吸引了很多人，但是莘庄店，人却不多。事后，也发现服务员也不似前几年徐家汇店里的热情。但是里面有wi-fi和电脑上网，查查和比较价格等信息，我用touch上网也很快，这里有好几家餐厅，估计大都都有wi-fi，所以，我们是边看边比较，看看评论。 最后，机子是在百思买买的，加290块的安心保，2年内，整机只要有3次问题，就换新机器，厂家保整机3年，屏幕1年。价格的确是最低了，10%的以旧换新（付完款，打电话让人家来收旧机器，收完给你一张证明之类，然后来百思买兑现），290块的安心保，百思买的服务目前看来还是8错的，他们提前一天，会发短信告诉我们什么时间段送货，这样不会破坏我们的计划。

 淘宝商城买了挂架： 挂架百思买很贵的，而且如果从机器厂家买的话，也很贵，去网上搜了一下，听说某某厂家回来安装，带一个挂架，要250块，而且挂架还是3无产品。这个时候，找淘宝是最好的，淘宝商城找到一家，还是上海名牌产品（60块）。
收到货之后，nick是做钢结构的，他都说8错，用料和做工都很好。

安装: 百思买的安装费要80，贵！然后，我们去小区附近的水暖小店，50即可搞定，要了电话号码。
电视送来之后不一会，挂架也送到了，然后电话一打，小师傅就过来帮我们安装了。我们在纠结如何保持水平，在说要是有个水平尺就好了，正好挂架里面附带的膨胀螺丝是小的而且是膨胀的那玩意是塑料的，不是特别好，小师傅立马就主动回去去取尺，顺便拿4个像样的膨胀螺丝（用了它们，挂空调都没有问题）。然后，定好位置，钻孔，固定机器，挂到机器上，拧螺丝锁紧位置，大功告成啦。服务很好，50块也值，我们没工具，而且手艺也不行。我们跟小师傅聊了聊，装一个，他可以拿20块。

后续： Nick同学把IP TV连过去（据说有无线的，这样用段时间吧；再据说，IP TV明年要投入更多高清视频）；连接笔记本和它连根视频线，无线键盘鼠标，上网方便，在线视频，PP live高清速度很快；可惜，没有买音频线，电视机不能发声音，还只好用2.1的音箱连到电脑上。

总体下来，看片够大了，不要太挑剔的话，声效还可以啦！