A brand new way of using application menus in Unity interface is coming to Ubuntu.

HUD – Heads UP Display – uses an intelligent search-based approach to finding and accessing menu items you need. It’s smart too; HUD is capable of remembering what items you use most often and prioritising them in the results.

The goal is to make finding menu items faster, in turn speeding up your workflow. From the video demo of HUD embedded below, the feature certa...

HP has officially announced that WebOS will be open sourced by September 2012. This is a marvelous thing for the WebOS community, and Palm fans everywhere. It’s step one in bringing WebOS back from the dead; hopefully a revitalizing shot in the arm of development, applications, and new hardware (we hope). HP is also looking at all existing WebOS hardware to figure out how to best move this out, so don’t throw away your Palm Pre or Pixi just yet.

As important as the announcement for WebOS itself is the announcement that Enyo, HP’s JavaScript framework for WebOS is getting a major overhaul into 2.0 and being open sourced as well; it is available as of today. This is key because unlike other mobile operating system frameworks, Enyo is not based on Webkit. As a browser-independent tool, it allows programmers to write code for WebOS applications that will function in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrom...

In a new post on its Android Developers Blog today, Google is giving devs tips on how to better prepare their apps for a brave, Menu button-less future. Honeycomb started the revolution by introducing the so-called "action bar" at the tops of applications and by killing physical buttons in favor of soft, reconfigurable ones, but that was strictly a tablet affair — the impetus to get developers on board with the Menu button's demise is greater now that Ice Cream Sandwich is out and in the process of bringing those same UX paradigm shifts to phones.

As it stands, Android 4.0 bridges the gap with older apps by posting an "action overflow button" — three vertical dots — to the right side of the soft button bar at the bottom of the screen. Google doesn't pull any punches, though, say...

Until now, Twitter’s not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries. That’s now changed, though Twitter stresses that it hasn’t yet used this new ability and that should it have to, anything withheld will be disclosed.

Twitter has shared the news on its blog, saying:

As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.

Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ li...

This week's clip comes from animonster. It's one of their three series, it's based on a character RayWilliamJohnson created called "YourFavoriteMartian".