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Permalink to this day Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Dell.com, Pre-order Media Center for XBox kit for $51.81. Free shipping.

That's cheap!
4:25:35 PM  Permalink to this item []


Microsoft Research, Squeeze the Screen (via Steve):
Baudisch and his colleagues have devised a project called Collapse-to-Zoom that avoids all that annoying scrolling. Collapse-to-Zoom allows users to collapse the areas of the screen that they aren't interested in, which causes the areas of relevant content to expand. It then allows users to zoom in on the content they want to read. Users typically collapse archive material, ads, or menus to focus on content.

The problems encountered browsing websites on a Media Center with a small non-HD display are analogous to browsing websites on handhelds. It would be really interesting to see some of the thinking being applied to making websites navigable on my phone applied to making them navigable on my TV with a remote control.

I wonder when FireFox is going to deliver a 10' web browser? :) But I guess the question would be 'when will Opera...' since Opera seems to the company pursuing the handheld market.
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