Archive for June, 2008

Great Geographic Visualization prototype at Université de Montréal

Prototype, geographic visualization from Rodolphe G. on Vimeo.
This is the work of my friend Rodolphe Gonzalès and his team at Université de Montréal.
This prototype connect heterogenous data about forests in Canada, and make them easy to browse geographically, through time, and hierarchically.

Endangered OS specie: Microsoft Windows

Filed under UI, method, opinion

After watching this video, I felt sad. Windows bashing leaves a bitter taste in my mouth now, I’d like to help.
Come on Microsoft, what are you doing? What we see on the video is just a lame copy of an Apple demo, the passage with the piano is so embarrassing. Your engineers are brilliant — [...]

Findloo is absolutely cool

Filed under UI

Findloo.com is a niffty meta search engine. It gathers and organizes search results by obvious categories (web, images, videos, items for sale, dictionaries, etc.) and by popular providers (Google, YouTube, Ebay, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc.).
I’ve added it to my default search tool in Firefox, and I’m happy because it works all right.