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Haptix: the PC mouse killer

Work or play, make life easier with Haptix.

Multitouch is fun and natural to use, but it’s only present on a few devices. Because tablets and smartphones are easy to use, they’re also easy to enjoy. But as great as multitouch screens are, it’s still hard to beat the mouse/keyboard combo when it comes to productivity. We wondered if it was possible to combine the best of both worlds — introducing Haptix.

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Haptix turns ANY surface into a multitouch surface. It’s a sleek bar that you can place flat or clip on something elevated to enable multitouch on any flat surface, such as a table, window, or screen. You can then control any computer by tapping, pinching to zoom, or swiping to scroll on that surface itself. It’s as intuitive and natural as a multitouch screen, just without the actual screen

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For artists and engineers alike — capture your pen/brush strokes with Haptix

But it’s more than just multitouch – it’s 3D multitouch. Even when your fingers are above the surface, you see them appear on the screen. This way, you know exactly what you’re selecting when you tap the surface. To click on a link, simply move your finger over the link and tap down; it’s so much faster than swiping on a trackpad. When you’re touching what you see, it’s just like reaching out and touching the screen itself, except your hands are well-rested right in front of you.

Haptix is a mouse-killer.Mouse killer

Can Haptix replace the mouse? We believe it can. Point it at your table, and bam, use your hands as your mouse and much more. You can either treat the surface like a multitouch screen or a trackpad, or define different functions for different fingers. For instance, you can use your middle finger as the cursor, your index finger to left click, and your ring finger to right click. We haven’t used the mouse in a while, and we haven’t found the need yet.

Pledge on Kickstarter to make this invention  possible for all of us!

 

All the above Information is from Haptix

Your own Boss.

Productivity is such a major aspect of success, perhaps even the most important. When you rearrange your life with the purpose of doing more and actually end up doing more- there’s no way that you will not achieve your dreams and goals.

However, having been in the working environment for a few years now I have come to realize a little truism of sorts: it is a lot easier to work tirelessly and see the need for productivity when your progress is being tracked by some “higher being” who is largely responsible for your way of life- to the very last penny. Trying to become your own boss though, is a fearful and tough feat. The desire to take full control of your life and finances is admirable but the applications of its implications are very difficult. This is especially true if you aren’t really accustomed to being proficiently productive at all. We allow ourselves a lot of free will to do pretty much whatever we want with Our Time. We are robbed of 8-hours a day and would like to chill-the-f***-out for the rest of the day.

But what do you really want? To relax in your $250p/month apartment with less leg space than a shower? Or to relax in a new life where you don’t have to worry about an undesirable job, insufficient space and rent?

That’s the biggest obstacle between your habits and wanting to change your life- focus. Zen Habits author and creator Leo Babauta has simplified productivity in a series of different articles on his blog but if you want to truly grasp the true/practical secrets to productivity, I suggest that you check out his no-so-new eBook Zen to Done.

You need to focus on the goal, to achieve that goal. When your focus is locked within the crosshairs of winning/success, you will realize that you are the sole proprietor of your own life. And that the only push that you need is desire. Do you want it? Stay Focused .Get it. Simple.

Did Copyright Kill Evolving Artistry?

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Copyright is said to be created to protect the interests of the creator. More specifically, at least for a writer, the creator’s Intellectual property. I think this is bullshit.

Yes, we all have the desire to be recognised for our work and there’s absolutely nothing Wrong with that. But what good is being recognised for something that’s never been seen/read or heard?

We live in an age where platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress and even Facebook have turned many of us into self-proclaimed writers- in our own right. Information is flowing-in at an extremely rapid pace and the output of that information (in the form of commentary and response) is moving just as quickly. In the Internet’s plight to integrate through expansion; copyright only serves as a detrimental factor to progression.

This is not to say that copyright is all that bad. The core intentions of copyright are to ensure that some lazy bugger doesn’t make a buck for work that took you hours to create. So yes, Copyright does have good intentions but it also has the tendency to set barriers between the creator and the consumer. For example: According to Copyright laws, you would have to ask me for permission before copying and pasting any of my work. But what if I get up to 160-emails a day and subsequently can’t get to yours? Then my work my message has not reached the amount of people that it could have, had you just been able to openly distribute (however you see fit) my work to your friends and to their friends and their friends…

If strictly implemented; copyright can become a mere impediment to progress within the eco-system of creativity and information consumption (which further aids creativity). The goal of the artist in 2013, is then to find the middle-ground between rightful recognition and open distribution.

By looking at the extract above, Leo Babauta‘s middle ground seems to be- books . Instead of restricting (adding a price) his content on a platform that is “free” to start-off with (his blog); he would rather extend this “restriction” only toward the hours that he spends writing, editing, printing (and more…) his awe-inspiring catalogue of insightful literature. This, however, is what he prefers not what he dictates.

How would you draw the line between restriction and openness?

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Poor Mentality vs. Rich Mentality Of Startup Entrepreneurs

Poor Mentality vs. Rich Mentality Of Startup Entrepreneurs

Money is not bad. It’s the greed of money that is bad. This chart simply called Poor Mentality vs. Rich Mentality by Funders and Founders lays it out in a very straightforward way. If you catch yourself having a poor mentality, try shifting your thoughts to a rich mentality.

Read the article:
http://www.bitrebels.com/business-2/poor-rich-mentality-startup-entrepreneurs/

( Source: http://fundersandfounders.com/ )

#entrepreneur #mentality #startup

This $H!T is SLOWWW!… $abali

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There are those amazing mornings.

You know them! Those mornings when you take a warm shower without any problems with the water temperature and without the soap slipping from your hands. The perfectly scrambled eggs, fresh luscious mushrooms, tomato slices, potato wedges and buttered whole wheat toast.

The mornings when you make your first call  and the guy on the other end sounds just as keen to hear more from you as you are to present to him and you immediately get  a meeting that is exactly when you hoped it would  be. You go to the meeting on that very day, it goes well and you get a lead to another potential meeting that will give you a giant leap closer to where you need to be. You go back home, make a sandwich, grab a beer and give yourself an hour reserved for just being with yourself. These days are great.

Then there are those days when you feel like the whole world is working together to make sure that you are eternally screwed every step of the way. The days when you wake up and the water is not warm any more, the toaster is jacked up and you’ve run out of eggs. You are rushing to a meeting that is meant to put you a step forward but actually ends up fucking up everything and makes the day a complete and utter waste of time. You go home, not in the mood to be making gourmet meals so you succumb to a peanut-butter sandwich and a glass of orange juice…

You’ll  always have the ups and the downs, the great days and the 24-hour nightmares but the good news is that: it was always going to be that way and it will always be that way. Those days are the days we use to  re-evaluate strategy, the days we learn from our past false assumptions and those days where we can just get back up and push on further. The key lesson to be learnt in these times is the value of patience. When shit is going slow, you need to understand that shit isn’t slow… shit is just slow- now. So you need to remember this, admit it to yourself and go forth knowing that things will change. You just have to learn, build and grow.

Patience is a virtue, it too can be nurtured and made into a  constant state of mind.

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