Sunday, April 01, 2007

Deepfish for a try


Microsoft just released a limited public preview of Deepfish.

"Deepfish is a new type of mobile information browsing experience, aimed at preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of effectively navigating that content on small screens. Deepfish's unique interface enables you to zoom in and out of page, quickly getting to the areas you are interested in without screen length after screen length of scrolling. And because the layout is preserved, navigation menus, lists of search results or news headlines, and other elements that might have been bent so thoroughly to fit the usual single column layout that they were no longer legible can now be browsed simply and easily. A consequence of Deepfish's multi-resolution approach to browsing pages is that it loads a thumbnail of pages initially and then only what is needed for more detail when requested or in the background as you browse the initial the view, resulting in substantially quicker load times for most pages." [via Microsoft Live Labs]

To really understand what they are talking about check the demo.

The preview is available for download now for Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices. There are a limited number of slots available, and they will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.

System requirements:
  • Device: Windows Mobile Smart Phone or Pocket PC.
  • Operating System: Windows Mobile 5.0+
  • Internet connection: Required.
  • For Desktop setup: NET Framework 2.0, ActiveSync 4.0+ or Windows Mobile Device Center(WMDC) for Vista.
  • Minimum Device Memory: 64MB Program Memory. Deepfish supports external storage when available.

Register and give it a try. They are waiting for your feedback.

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