about me A loner, although do enjoy the occasional companionship, if you can handle it. Enjoys long term friendships, sensitive, ponders a lot about life and people. Monday, February 02, 2009
N97 widget design contest & korean BBQ
[ 9:24 pm ] I knew about this competition back in December, but never got around looking at it in detailed. Mainly, I hate programming. I suck at programming. I'm not a programmer. Little did I know, this is actually a graphic design competition with no programming involved. Basically, all you need to do is to design a widget with Photoshop ... think of it as a mock up. Now, that I can do very well. I spent the better part of the afternoon thinking of what widget designs I could come up with, and they all had to be in 360 x 60. I checked out the their gallery (here) just to see what everyone else is doing ... Hmm, interesting stuff. So, the best thing to do is ... design something that no one thought of yet :D I came up with 3 simple designs, because I believe widgets should be simple to begin with. Vnote: Lol ... corny name for voice note. Fairly simple and straight forward function. Hit the record button to record your voice memo, ideas, etc. The pause button will activate when you're recording, while the record button will change into a stop button. Hitting the stop button will finalise the recording. The pause button is on the right because I hate it when your fingers are too big and end up hitting the stop button instead of pause. Simple, anyone could come up with this. Update: wooohooo ... it's on the site now, please vote here! Facebook Status Update: Quite a long name, I couldn't come up with anything clever because ... I'm not good with names, HAH! :) Anyways, another simple design, basically it displays your status feeds from Facebook. I'm not sure how functional the top and down arrows are going to be since it's gonna be really tiny on the phone, but I'm hoping that it would be coded for navigational keys. Click up or down will scroll through your status feeds ... with transitions. I hate how things just suddenly appears without any transitions. Clicking on comment will change the status area into an input box for you to comment. I'm not sure if their API allows that, but since this is a graphic contest, why not go wild? DIGG Updates: Not a smart name, huh? I'm a fan of digg. I go through the feeds every morning in the toilet on my iPhone. Now, naturally you'd want to come up with a widget for Digg. This should auto refresh each time a news is made popular. The little dude with the shovel? Click on it to 'digg' the news. Navigational keys to move in between news. This is not suppose to be a complicated widget, I intended it to be fairly straight forward displaying news only. I submitted all 3 this afternoon. After snooping around the web today, I found out that the gallery hasn't been updated for a while now, and I know Nokia will only select the ones that they like to be on the gallery ... but it's been a few weeks now. How come there aren't any new submissions? Since the competition closing date is on the 27th of this month, I still have plenty of time to come up with different ideas. Maybe something that would make use of the accelerometer, GPS or even the camera. Time to dream, huh? Update: I couldn't sleep, so I came up with this widget and submitted it. MeVid. Yeah yeah ... you come up with some clever name la. Basically this is a video logging widget. Think of it as a ... umm ... video blogging. The N97 has 2 cameras, you get to choose which to use :) But why? Why not ... ? They have a front facing camera, might as well use it to record yourself. Do you know how many camwhores there are out there in this world? When you're sick recording yourself, you can switch to the back camera :P There's an upload button that would upload your video to YouTube, the play button will launch the default media player for you to review. I decided to place the record button right at the edge for usability sake. It's easier to hit that button ;) Anyways, that's that. Oh, had a great birthday dinner yesterday night at Zens, One Bangsar. I was really early ... ended up being the first one there. Doesn't matter, so I told the waiter to get a table of 8 for us. I was kinda worried, what if these dingbats suddenly FFK. Hah ... nah. Eddy came next, then followed by Eric and Doreen, then Yuen Lai and Rod, then the birthday girl came ... and then follows by the rest. The manager of the restaurant, Mr. Kim, was really nice. Why? Here's why :D Looks like pee, huh? According to Mr. Kim this is a very 'special' drink ... just for the birthday girl. So, I'm assuming that they only bring this out on special occasion? What's so special about this? THERE'S FREAKING 24k GOLD DUST IN IT!! First time I'm having something with gold dust in it ... if you leave the cup sitting for a while, you'll see a layer of gold at the bottom :) Here's how the bottle looks like. Even the label is written GOLD. This liquer is made from plum, if I'm not mistaken ... pretty sure it's made from plum since there were 4 biji of plums in the bottle. So, how much would this bottle cost? RM88.88. Not bad, huh? 350ml ... damn expensive. Good thing this was on the house :D Oh, he gave us a bottle of wine that was made from ... sweet potato. As you'd guess it, it's sweet ... and yes, that's on the house too. Didn't I tell you Mr. Kim is awesome? This is by far one of the best service we've ever gotten ... anywhere. The waiters were pretty helpful, though some of them could not converse in english very well (they are all from Korea), except for one dude who spoke pretty good english. If you're female, single and available, he's good looking and probably sings well, look for him at Zens, One Bangsar. The food was ok, I wish I could tell you what I had ... but I'm VERY bad at remembering menu items. We had pork and beef and raw vegetables ... and it was tasty. Helpful? :D Good dinner, nice company, new friends, perhaps a positive sign for the year? I can't wait to get back to work tomorrow, suddenly I'm itching to get back to work. I don't know why. Oh, my mom's back from Cambodia. 2 comments Archives nothing |
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2 Comments:
Vnote - sounds like my name.. hehe ;)
February 03, 2009 9:44 am
Lol ... now that you mentioned it, yeah! :P
February 03, 2009 10:22 am
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