http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/ Engadget Comments for University of Washington's Prefab tool promises to 'unlock the desktop' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Proofread?]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Proof...]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/"Prove read". It's HUMOR !!! Jeez. :)]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Yeah, they all missed the joke. I on the other hand lol'd.]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/While you're at it why don't you instruct him how to spell 'Holy'.
Just a joke, guys.]]>Apr 1st 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Sadly, it appears that your genius may not be fully appreciated in your lifetime.]]>Apr 1st 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Or they should just hire better writers that both love gadgets AND the English language.]]>Apr 1st 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Processing the pixels of running apps does seem like it will be a little bit taxing though, although their demos are quite smooth.]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
I'll grant you that their proposed examples like "iTunes buttons on Microsoft Word" are stupid, but this would be a fantastic tool for debugging, reverse engineering, test automation, and many things of that nature (for cases in which you do not have the source code).]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Yes, every cracker will now find out your password is entirely made up of middots. ]]>Apr 1st 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/This has nothing to do with phishing, and everything about research! When researching User Interfaces on the academic level, you typically have to write your own code to demonstrate functionality - resulting in, quite honestly, pretty lame demos of some potentially amazing User Interface techniques. Not every grad student has the $$$ to create Surface applications like Microsoft does.

This is really cool - of COURSE it's a resource hogging waste of CPU cycles - but that's the point - it's just research! Hopefully with a cool demo, the Microsoft's and Apple's of the world will implement these widgets into their UI toolboxes as standard interface items. The user (you guys) would then have a preference to turn these things on or off - think of these techniques as more things to add to the Universal Access control panel in OS X... great for kids, old folks, people who don't know computers (amazingly enough, there's more of them out there than I would have thought!)

-Dan]]>Apr 1st 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/Apr 1st 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/
Just think, you THINK you're using iTunes but really, when you input your user/pass to buy a song, you're giving your account info to someone with nefarious motives. . .

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