Category Archives: usability

Github Implements Agency-Aware Identity

Posted on July 6, 2010 by

Github gave me a whole new reason to love them last week when they introduced agency-aware identity in their new organizations offering. Crazy cool. Now each of my clients can have their own Github organization and I can participate in … Continue reading →

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Watch a Video While You Work

Posted on June 17, 2010 by

I like to have a TED or SALT talk playing while I work on something mindless. The problem is that on my single 15″ display, there isn’t really enough room to keep my work and the video (window) side-by-side. I’d … Continue reading →

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Usable Gmail Thread URL Arrives

Posted on June 6, 2008 by

I was optimistic that the Quick Links feature just released with the new Gmail Labs would scratch my itch for the ability to link to Gmail threads. Well Quick Links itself is pretty raw but I was able to use … Continue reading →

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OS X Quality Problems

Posted on February 29, 2008 by

by Enzo D. (Zoen) I love my Macs. But dang it, I’ve encountered a couple annoying Leopard problems that have significantly impacted their value. First, my old iMac won’t connect via WPA2 to my Airport Extreme since upgrading to Leopard. … Continue reading →

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NYT Multimedia Presentation Viewer

Posted on January 2, 2008 by

The New York Times’ multimedia presentation viewer is a thing of beauty. The example below is taken from a story on Benazir Bhutto. Flash wins again. Notice how hovering over the thumb yields a time-indexed image popup. Very fluid, very … Continue reading →

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Flickr Attributions in WordPress

Posted on December 31, 2007 by

I’m tired of creating HTML attribution markup and style by hand every time I drop a Flickr photo into a post. I noticed the Yahoo Shortcut Plugin purports to address this issue. So I ended my procrastination and upgraded to … Continue reading →

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Still Waiting for Gmail Thread URL

Posted on November 9, 2007 by

Update to Gmail Thread URL. Folks are claiming that the recently released (to some folks) Gmail “2.0″ supports permalinks to threads (and various other resources e.g. inbox). I have the new version running on Firefox and I see no explicit … Continue reading →

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Gmail Thread URL

Posted on July 26, 2007 by

Why can’t I copy the URL for a Gmail thread into e.g. Google Calendar? That would be so useful! Actually I think there is an URL syntax that would work if I only knew the incantation. Wouldn’t it be nice … Continue reading →

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Apple Packaging Porno

Posted on July 20, 2007 by

Update 3/28/08:Here’s a young man of like mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjS89zUxtgM 

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Rails IDE Goes Jurassic

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

About a year ago in Smalltalk Browser Goes Jurassic I lamented the fact that the Smalltalk browser UI was caught in a techno-aesthetic time warp and cheered the possibility that it might escape to the future and in doing so … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, One Step Forward, Ruby on Rails, Seaside, Smalltalk, Squeak, usability, Web as Platform | 1 Comment