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Andrew Zhilin

FMS Emulators Icons

2009-01-17 17:05 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello everyone. Life is very interesting thing, you never know what or who will you meet next. It was 6 years ago when I met fms’ awesome emulators while playing with my Viewsonic v35 pocket pc. That was really good and fun time for me because everyone around were totally jealous cause I could play tons [...]
Categories: Released software
Andrew Zhilin

The Funny Thing

2009-01-14 01:10 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello everybody. Very funny and confusing thing happened yesterday. Thanks to Flatfeet comment in my previous post bout my Mer contribution (which got unprecedented attention from the Community, I really can see that I’ve made right decision to work with Mer guys) it appeared that my wallpaper looks similar to upcoming Windows 7 wallpaper, which I [...]
Categories: Slight off-topic
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Repos à la Mer*

2009-01-12 13:34 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello everybody, hope you’ve spent your hollidays quite well. I’m starting this year with great mood and feel for something extremely new. So I’ve broke all my previous rules and entered great project outside of Maemo OS, but it’s 100% maemo related.  Let me introduce – Mer! So, first of all, some information bout the project itself. The [...]
Categories: Mer
Andrew Zhilin

New Year Countdown Series: #10

2008-12-31 20:39 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Happy new year to all of you! Almost half of our planet is already in the future, other is waiting, we have 23:00 here in Moscow and party is getting started. Thank you for all your warm words about my New Year Countdown Series, it’s really a great pleasure to see you all here reading [...]
Categories: Heavy UI improvements
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New Year Countdown Series: #9

2008-12-30 20:27 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello and welcome. Today I’ll show you one of my favorite concepts in this New Year Series. I’ll show you my vision of task switching. So. Let’s think what we should see in the ideal task switcher. It should allow you to quick manage all your open software, no matter how many apps you’ve opened or [...]
Categories: Heavy UI improvements
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New Year Countdown Series: #8

2008-12-29 20:00 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello again, hope you’re not bored with my series cause I have 3 more things to show you :) And they would deffinetely be last but not the least.This post would be about my vision of ideal applications menu. Right now Maemo have too big applications menu. You can ony have 36 items for quick access [...]
Categories: Heavy UI improvements
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New Year Countdown Series: #7

2008-12-28 18:56 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello there. Today I’m continuing to post about UI and I want to talk about one of the most important things for UI (and basicaly most other types) designer - guidelines. Every big project have its own guide(brand)book. No matter if it’s OS or Oil Company. As company always have some special designed things like cars, [...]
Categories: Design guidelines
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New Year Countdown Series: #6

2008-12-26 15:48 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Let’s have a light break today, after good Christmas party :) Today I won’t show you any crazy UI mock-ups or even hardware schemes. Today I have a simple thought, that develops previous idea with “hot swap” battery. And I will not even hide it under “more” tag so everybody can read it and share [...]
Categories: Heavy UI improvements
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New Year Countdown Series: #5

2008-12-25 15:04 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Merry Crhristmas to all my readers! Hope you’re enjoying that day and Santa have a small present for you - one more improvement. But now it’s not UI modification - it’s way cooler and super-handy! Check it out after the break. Today I’ll show you significant hardware improvement that will dramaticaly improve user experience. One of great [...]
Categories: Design guidelines
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New Year Countdown Series: #3 and #4

2008-12-24 20:18 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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It’s Christmas Eve, everybody making last preparations for great holiday, and I have 2 improvements for today! Why not only one? You’ll see it after the break. Flicks.First of all I wanted to add some dynamic into device controling process. Button pressing is nice and handy, but it’s slightly boring from time to time. And not [...]
Andrew Zhilin

New Year Countdown Series: #2

2008-12-23 12:16 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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And as I promissed - second Fremantle wannabe UI improvement! Maemo Menu. In current and older Maemo iterations there is UI element called “Sidebar”. It’s pretty handy for quick launching apps and web bookmarks. Also it acts as small task switcher as well. But the bad thing is that it wastes too much screen space, that’s so [...]
Andrew Zhilin

New Year Countdown Series: #1

2008-12-22 12:21 UTC  by  Andrew Zhilin
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Hello there. It’s been a long time since we’ve met last time, and many things happened. But I think most of themes were already discussed in many blogs and forums, so it’s not necessary to mention them here. What I want to do now is to conclude this very productive year with a series of 10 [...]