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Sunday, June 22, 2003
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:: Usability ? ::
 Using the Vodafone Live service, I was sent a message that told me to switch my phone off and on again, as the menus needed to be updated. I did that. I then looked to see what had changed, but couldn't see anything obvious. There should have been an indication as to the new features, as the prospect of new things to do on the phone obviously gives one a sense of anticipation.
Anyhow, I had a surf around the Vodafone Live site and entered a link called "Messages" as I was curious what messages were being stored there. One further option was called "Vodafone Messenger", so I thought to try it, only to be delivered the message shown in the screen shot here. Interesting that I'm surfing the site as a registered Vodafone customer, able to interface with the site via WAP, but I'm required to go elsewhere (i.e. a PC) to register?? Seems a tiny bit odd to me. I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation in the mind of someone at Voda.
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:: Very neat utility for XUL interfaces on mobile devices ::
Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, a single Java class, that parses the hierarchy and properties of the GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. It separates the graphic presentation (described in an XML file) and the application methods (written as Java code).
The GUI description is XML User-interface Language, XUL (apparently prounced "zool", rhyming with "cool"). XULPlanet has a tutorial on XUL.
The really great part is that the Thinlet toolkit supports MIDP, so there is a chance to play around with some interesting mobile interface ideas, not that I've tried any yet, just played around with XUL via the fabulous Thinlet authoring tool Theodore. Playing around with the Theodore tool is a great way to learn, or at least appreciate, the power and potential benefits of XUL. You can give it whirl by trying the evaluation copy online (but note that you need to have Java Web Start installed to do this).
You can try out the Thinlet class via some interesting web demos on the Thinlet website, including one that uses the Amazon Web Services API.
2:18:49 PM
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