I wanted to post this for a while. But it’s definitely worth a mention if you’re working with software development. Cameron Moll: 10 things I learned in 6 months (Nov, 2005): 6. Say ‘no’ as often as you say ‘yes’. […] Realize that every project you say ‘yes’ to inevitably locks up time that may […]
I had to ask my old colleague and friend Michael Bernth for help today for a Photoshop tip. I wanted to round the corners of an image with the shape of a rounded rectangle. Here is an easy way (I’m using Photoshop CS1): Start with an image in a separate layer. Create a new set […]
A colleague of mine — and I don’t consider him lazy — told me today, that he would refrain from participating in a product forum because he had to register as a user. In his opinion, it was an interesting debate of a product missing an essential feature. An employee from the company had already […]
Warning to our frequent readers: This is not about usability or webstandards. I wrote about issues with my Lenovo T60p laptop recently, and have made a guide to eliminate one of the most annoying problems I ever had with a PC: After standby, the computer was unable to reconnect to the wireless network. As this […]
Links should change colors when visited to assist the user in navigation. This may be common knowledge to you. Nevertheless, from time to time I run into graphical designers that are not aware of this web convention and why it should be so. Excerpt from Jakob Nielsen‘s book “Prioritizing Web Usability” [via webmonkey] Links That […]
I am back from vacation and saw that Akismet has caught more than 22,000 spam comments over a two week period. That is roughly one spam comment every minute (65 comments each hour). Since February when we passed 100,000 spam comments, we have now passed a quarter million spam comments. (277,421 when I made the […]
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