{"id":734,"date":"2007-07-20T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/interesting-desktop-metaphors-for-computing\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:11:30","slug":"interesting-desktop-metaphors-for-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/interesting-desktop-metaphors-for-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Desktop Metaphors for Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reading some criticisms for the new Mac OSX Leopard, I cam across this interesting design for potential OS use:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SWe-TIy2Lbs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A while ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/expose-for-the-rest-of-the-computing-world\/\">documented<\/a> some other interesting OS level file organization innovations. Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t seen much of anything implemented with recent introduction of operating systems from the major players. <\/p>\n<p>The video above reminds me of Sun&#8217;s &#8220;Looking Glass&#8221; project:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JXv8VlpoK_g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/creativebits.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">creativebits<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading some criticisms for the new Mac OSX Leopard, I cam across this interesting design for potential OS use: A while ago, I documented some other interesting OS level file organization innovations. Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t seen much of anything implemented with recent introduction of operating systems from the major players. The video above reminds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/interesting-desktop-metaphors-for-computing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting Desktop Metaphors for Computing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}