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jetpack writes:
The world's most powerful optical telescope is now operating at full power, releasing its first images of a spiral galaxy some 100 million light years away.
The $120 million US Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), located 3,200 metres above sea level atop southeastern Arizona's Mount Graham, uses two massive 8.4-metre-diameter mirrors side by side to produce a resolution equivalent to a 22.8-metre telescope.
That gives the telescope the ability to see into the heavens with 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope, according to LBT Corp., a collaboration of U.S., Italian and German universities and research institutes.
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jetpack writes:
OS X users rejoice. 10.5.2 is here and has plenty of improvements and fixes. Many will be excited to find out that you can now shut off the transparency of the menu bar from System Preferences.
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jetpack writes:
EETimes goes Inside the gPhone: What to expect from Google's Android alliance. Based on the membership of the Open Handset Alliance, EETimes makes an educated guess as to what the first offering from Google and its new buddies might be.
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jetpack writes:
I've always hated writing user interfaces, and graphical user interfaces in particular. However, I suspect that is largely because I have no clue how to write a *good* one. By this, I don't mean the technical aspects, like using the APIs and so on. I mean what are the issues in designing an interface that is clean, easy to understand and easy to use? What are things to be considered? What are things to be avoided? What are good over-all philosophies of UI design?
To this end, I'd like to pick up a book or two (or three) and get my learn on. I'd appreciate some book suggestions from the UI experts in the Slashdot crowd.
