The standard windows command window (console) sucks for several usability reasons: Standard windows keyboard shortcuts don’t work. It’s not possible to copy/paste without using a special menu. This special menu is best accessible with the mouse (or a long range of shortcuts) Compare how it should be CTRL + V With how it is in […]
Firebug keeps surprising me. I’ve recently been working on code for several web designs and this little trick helped me to understand existing HTML and CSS much faster. Just to give an example I use our Justaddwater RSS feed page (but could be any page). Before you start, get Firebug for Firefox (if you haven’t […]
UX Magazine reports that MTV drops their Flash based website in favor of a common-sense web standards based solution. It seems the Flash version was not complementing their content and the users were bitching about it… as they mention on their blog. I for one am glad to see this happen. As good as Flash […]
I have been looking a fast, intuitive editor for my Windows laptop. Now I stopped looking. E-texteditor for windows is very intuitive and easy to use. I highly recommend watching the screencast (a short tour of some of the best features). Although it’s still in beta, it seems so much better than the alternatives. I’m […]
UPDATE May 1st, 2007 (forgot the two final steps 8 and 9). I’ve run into the situation a couple of times where I get started on a client’s office, but due to delays and politics it takes time to get a proper versioning control server set up. It turned out to be easy when I […]
Update May 10: this article is no longer password protected. Explanation why. Here is a brief reminder to myself before starting up a prototyping session. Some of the activities below are done only once on the current machine, some of them you must do with every project. I just wanted to have it all on […]
Back in December I read somewhere that MySpace had taken over the position as the most visited website from Yahoo. The sheer numbers of pageviews and visitors were gigantic, in November, Comscore reported: News Corp.’s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views last month, compared with 38.1 billion for Yahoo, according to comScore Media Metrix. […]
Form usability revisited. In case you missed it, here is why to prefer top-aligned labels on form elements
One of the cornerstones in Web 2.0 are the folksonomy, a user generated taxonomy, popularly referred to as tags. Google made tags popular (they call them labels) when they launched Gmail (taxonomy) and the online bookmark service del.icio.us gave us tags + social network = folksonomy. Today Mozilla launched their e-mail client ‘Mozilla Thunderbird 2’ […]
I’m not pirating music or films, and I will gladly pay huge sums of money to huge world-wide record companies and film studios. But if they insist on protecting their publications with DRM, I will in turn insist only to pay half the price at the shop counter in return for less accessible content. It […]
Ever heard the term “Below the fold”? This refers to the time before online, before internet – in the days when newspapers ruled the world. When folding a newspaper in half you only see the top part, and the adverts and headlines in the bottom part of the front-page don’t get get that much attention. […]
After 9 days away from ordinary work, then suddently Microsoft Word snug back on the list of most used programs:
Despite the fact that I try to avoid it, using Word as specification is still an important part of my work :)
We just got a trackback link from a spam blog linking to Thomas’ latest blog post. At first sight, the trackback looked fairly real. Se screenshot below. Just one thing caught my eye: Who’s Jeremy? I went to the site — it looked reasonable at a glance. A look at the categories (oh, it’s called […]
According to a newly published website and a press release, the Californian giant Google is now offering free broadband internet. How do they achieve this? Through the toilet in your house! The thorough reader might notice the date of the press release though ;o)
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