Saw Butterfly effect. Really freaked me out. Think about the turning points in your life. How could they have gone different? Would it have been better? or Worse? Thinking about taxes. I like my taxes being spent on some things and not others. For instance, I like my taxes being…
ALERT: This is the coolest thing I have seen in MONTHS! If you have Picasa, you have to try this. It’s called Name Tagging. You enable it. Mine took about an hour or so to crawl through all the photos. When it was done, I realized that it put these…
I decided to try using Chrome for a specific set of sites. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the list is “Sites owned by Google”. This includes Gmail, Picasa, Reader, Docs, Calendar, etc. I have already noticed an improvement in performance. Specifically, Picasa is MUCH faster. I don’t know what…
Google just released a new browser called Chrome. I am using it now to write this post. When I go to WhatIsMyUserAgent.com I get the following: Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13 In Safari, when I go to the same site…
jQuery relaunched their website. See site here. The comments on the post are fascinating. The re-design immediately erupted a firestorm of “Yay!” and “Yuck!” proclamations. Issues such as how professional (or not) it looked or how cool (or not) it looked dominated the threads. It shows how similar people using…
Every few months, I find the time to update the cross-client html template. (Link removed) Again, I used the returnPath tool to help me get a handle on best practices. I improved it over the previous one in a few ways. Here is a quick list of what I know:…
I don’t often look at Mac software. However, today I was helping someone try to find the equivelent of Snagit for the Mac. Here is what we found: First is Snagit. Yes, they are considering a mac version. Other info here. This would be great. The latest release of Snagit…
Nice collection of quotes about Design. Here is mine: Design is Decisions. I love to point out all the decisions around us that create our environment to my kids. We are surrounded by decisions of people. Some made with good thinking and some with faulty thinking. Design isn’t good or…
The Mozilla Labs UX series is really interesting. Great use of community to get ideas for the next generation of the browser. I think they should use something similar to ideaExchange, but that is another issue. One participant is Aza Raskin. He just posted an idea about tabs. However, I…
A long time ago I heard a comment about watches. You can tell alot about someone from the watch they wear. Watches aren’t like clothes where you pick a different outfit every day. It lasts for a while. People pick their watches pretty carefully. The watch reflects the person’s personality. …
Mozilla is a cool insitution. I dig what they are doing. This is a perfect example. They are asking for prototypes or ideas about the future of web browsing. I find many of the ideas interesting and inspiring, but I also find most of them disconnected from real world examples. …
This weekend is just me and the boys. It is not terribly hard, but we are watching way more TV than usual. I am tired and my brain doesn’t work as well. Katie feels this every day. 🙁 We went to the San Mateo County Fair on Friday. It was…
They give these out at Matthew’s preschool for passing a tricycle test. Great smile. He saw it and said, “I’m wearing my monkey shirt there.” Pretty good for a 4 year old.
I have recently fallen in love with a new UI tool for large trees. There are numerous examples of applications that need this. Any application that has a tree on the left with more than 25 nodes would qualify. (Outlook, Salesforce, Marketo, MSDN, Windows File Manager, etc) Additionally, all photo…