Disco Available
Disco, the CD-burning tool for Mac OS X, is finally available as a public beta. I just tried it and it's the perfect example of what kind of applications I would like to use every day. Not only does it look great, Disco is also very easy to use. Sure, it might not do everything [...]
New .Mac Webmail [Updated]
It just rocks! Thanks Apple for finally improving .Mac. Here is a screenshot of the new webmail: You can do pretty much everything you can do with Mail.app. Moving mails around is a breeze and the look has definitely improved a lot. I have one big issue though: I can't use it from my cell [...]
Cool Utility Classes For SwingX
If you liked the user interface of Artemis, you might probably want to be able to produce the same result at no cost. I have good news for you then because I have just added a set of cool classes to SwingX that will help you generate nice-looking graphical effects. The new classes are available [...]
Simple Tools For Simple Tasks… With Cool UIs
My mom is real estate agent and she often takes pictures of the properties she's trying to sell. Unfortunately, those modern digital cameras create files that are a tad too large to send by email or to upload on their internal enterprise portal. While she knows how to use a computer (and even a PDA), [...]
Another Great Gradient Performance Trick
Shannon Hickey, from the Swing team, just posted a comment on my java.net blog about gradients performance. He delivers another excellent trick to improve gradients performance. By just setting a parameter to true in the constructor, you can turn your gradient into a cyclic gradient, thus yielding to 2x speed boost! Check out Shannon's comment [...]
Screenshots and Video of Extreme GUI Makeover 2006
After I posted the slides of Extreme GUI Makeover, many people asked for screenshots and/or videos of the application described in the presentation. I listened to you. Here is everything you wanted. By the way, this presentation is not only mine as it's been said in several place. Scott Violet and Shannon Hickey, both from [...]
Disco Special Effects
I recently talked about Disco, an incoming Mac OS X CD burning application. Disco offers a really good-looking user interface aimed at ease of use. Given the screenshots and movies I have seen so far, I must say those guys seemed to have reached their goals. For weeks now, the development team was touting some [...]
Rich Internet Applications with SwingX-WS
You might already be familiar with the SwingLabs and SwingX projects, which provide new sets of tools and components for Swing. Richard Bair, leader of those projects, just published an excellent article about SwingX-WS. SwingX-WS attempts to simply the use of web services (in the broad sense) by providing APIs that site on top of [...]
Swing, its past, present and future
The Java Developer's Journal has an excellent interview of some Swing members throughout the ages. You'll learn some nice things about its early days among other stuff. Well worth the read.
Aerith HD videos
Aerith videos (156 MB). I have finally shot some videos of Aerith running. Those are full 1024×768 videos that show 3 of Aerith features. The last one, the full screen applet, was not working when capturing the video on Mac OS X. I'll see what I can do about that. Enjoy.
No Fluff Just Stuff: Extreme GUI Makeover slides
As promised during the session, here are the slides for Extreme GUI Makeoverin various file formats: Keynote PDF OpenOffice.org 2.0 PowerPoint
