I just couldn’t help myself. I had to install Windows 7 on the Netbook. I upgraded the ram from 1G to 2G for just $25 from Amazon. It took an hour or so to install. No upgrade is allowed from XP to 7, so I had to do a clean…
Jewish High Tech Community Ask my mom, I am not a good Jew. Not kosher, never go to temple, I celebrate Christmas (although we like to call it Winter Solstice), married a shiksa, kids will not have Bar Mitzvahs (great story) and disdain organized religon. However, I can honestly say that…
“Say hello to my little friend!” I just go my new netbook, the Asus EeePC 1000 HE. It is slightly heavier than I expected, but not too bad. The screen is 10″ and seems plenty big for what I need. Just to be clear on my purposes, I need something…
Marketo launched it’s Lead Management 3.0 product this weekend. It has been a long time coming (- been working on it for 4 months). The scope was pretty big. We refactored the entire UI from top to bottom. We improved usability in countless ways. The graphic design is polished and…
I have been getting more interested in Twitter, since Digsby makes it much easier to tweet. Coinciding with this interest, I have gotten more followers. Each one with a little email announcement. Many of these followers are wierd. By wierd, I mean that they have a strange pattern on their…
UX is all about human psychology. Here are some key truths. People are dillusional optimists. Whether it’s estimating how much work something will take, stock market speculation, gambling, or any other predictive test, people will always exaggerate their chances of success. It’s hard-wired into most of us. How many times…
I saw this image on Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood, which borrowed it from Thom Holwerda. on this page. I redrew the image using Balsamiq. Since, I saw it, I have been internally using this metric for a slew of other topics besides code. American Idol. For each contestant, I used…
We have been using MediaTemple for a while to host Marketo’s public website. They have a great design sense and cost twice as much as Bluehost, but we hoped that the added expense would mean better quality. Recently, we moved from their DV to GS services and got put on…
I love watching/analyzing people argue, including with myself. It is the key attribute of human civilization. We all have points of view and opinions. I have thought deeply about the key differences people have and how to deal with them. In the end, we all want to “win” the argument…
Lately, I have been itching to use a custom font for my headers. One of my unwritten rules of powerpoint presentations is to use an interesting font. Times New Roman and Arial are just saying to your audience, “I didn’t feel like taking 5 minutes to make this interesting on…
I have been looking for a solution to turn PNG-24 with alpha transparency into a PNG-8 WITH alpha transparency for a while. This possible with Fireworks, but I didn’t really want to install, buy or fireworks. (It scares me). Side question: Why o’ Why can’t Adobe make Photoshop do this?…
I switched over to Threatfire for my anti-virus/malware protection. I had been an evangelist for Avast for quite some time, but the registration process was just a little too annoying. It seemed that every time I turned around, I had to re-register. I have alot of computers that I take care…
By request, here is a zip of my cloud theme. I don’t feel like it was perfect, but I liked it for my first try. Feel free to use it and modify it. I can’t sit still on themes very long. I keep feeling the urge to change them. It’s…
Kevin at work pointed me at a new Instant Messenger on the block called Digsby. Installation was a little scary because it asks you if you want to install all this other junk. I guess they need to make some money, but I clicked “decline” all the way through. You…