The curse of updates
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Design | No Comments »One of the worst things about the ubiquity of the internet is the crutch of automatic updates. Who cares if our code isn't feature complete? So what if there are bugs galore? It works okay - let's ship and just ...
Unsubstantiated statement of the day
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »The US will not get rid of $1 bills until $5 becomes the norm for minimum tips.
The best feature of Firefox
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Usability | No Comments »I may be a little late to the party, but in the last 3 months I've begun using this feature more and more: Typing something in the address bar does an I'm Feeling Lucky search on Google. Sounds simple, and perhaps not ...
Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Skype Video Calls
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »There are few people who would count Skype as ubiquitous computing. However I've found it is not the technology that defines ubiquitous computing, but how it is applied. Since I moved to the US I've really enjoyed having a Skype phone ...
Picasa photo tuning
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Design, Miscellaneous, Usability | 1 Comment »This is a continuation of Part 1 of my Picasa discussion. I am continually surprised by how powerful the relatively simple photo tuning tools of Picasa are. Take for example this photo my wife snapped while flying from Seattle to ...
Picasa as an example of great design
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Design, Usability | 1 Comment »I've been a long-time fan of Picasa, and it ultimately comes down to several reasons: It's fast. Very fast. It has a great UI. Functionality. Integration. Fast Picasa has been optimized to very quickly load, to handle large libraries of photos, and to allow very quick ...
Tuesdays and Google Reader
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »I read an interesting article linked from Hacker News to 16th Letter which discussed different productivity on different days. While both myself and Melissa are both late to the party on productivity on Tuesdays, I was interested to see that she ...
Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Nike Plus
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »For all the doom and gloom about the lack of real world ubiquitous computing (even I was guilty of it in my thesis), if you look around there are devices that support ubiquitous computing ideals. And I'm not talking ...
