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  How to project a phone screen to a PC in Windows 10

In this post, we will show you a simple way to project a phone to a PC in Windows 10. Windows 10 provides a feature called Project to this PC which allows to project other devices on a PC installed with Windows 10.Below are the steps for doing this.1.Press Win + i key to open Windows Settings.2. In System menu, click Project to this PC option. Then select either Available everywhere on secure networks or Available everywhere.3. Now open your phone which you want to project. Ensure it connects to the same WiFi as your PC.4. On your phone, go to Settings and click More connections. You will f...

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  GDC 2012: How Vector Unit made the leap from console to mobile games

Matt Small, creative director at independent developer Vector Unit, thought his small studio would focus on consoles forever when it was working on Hydro Thunder Hurricane for Xbox Live Arcade.But then the smartphone and tablet market picked up, and mobile devices started to offer increasing amounts of processing power. That increase in power opened up new opportunities for the people at Vector Unit, which had years of developing for consoles.So the studio worked with Tegra chipmaker Nvidia and created the Android and iOS game Riptide GT, a jet ski racing game that took five months to develop....

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  "Simplicity" is not a simple concept

I've come to avoid using the word "Simplicity" or its variants ("Simple," &c.) It means too many different things to different people.For example, my original land-line phone was simple:It's simple by eliminating extraneous use cases. It only handles one user scenario, the one that was the most common when it was invented. If we think of the number of affordances and the number of uses, this kind of simplicity lowers the number of affordances by lowering the number of uses. I call this kind of simplicity "Economical Design."There's another kind of simple, a kind of band-aid simple. You sta...

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