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 I get: Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0…
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 the identical tool can bake…
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: SpamAssassin will give you bad…
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 has kind of a messy…
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. Especially when you strip away…
I installed the Twin Helix PNG Fix and tried to tweak up my site for IE6. I got most of the PNG files taken care of, but not all of them. I need to refactor some of the classes to get it all working right. In general, my approach is to add a class called…
A while back someone had pointed me to World of Solitaire and asked for some UX advice. I tell it like it is, so for good and for bad, I will give my best advice. First, the good stuff. This is a technical marvel. Honestly, this is a ridiculously rich experience all done with 500kb…
For some reason, my internet access fails on Microsoft Vista Business 32-bit edition every time I reboot. The main symptom is that it puts a default gateway of 0.0.0.0 in the settings. Why is it doing this? I don’t think I am infected or anything. It’s happened to another computer in my network as well.…
Lately, I have been thinking about speed as the number one factor for software satisfaction. When a piece of software is fast, it makes the user so much happier than if it is just “powerful”. For example, in the early 90’s I loved XTreeGold. It was wicked fast and could do what I wanted so…
Hooray! Someone finally nailed the background-repeat problem for PNG support. I have stopped stretching PNGs in the foreground because of IE intermittant issues. This, however, is a great solution. It’s in Alpha now, so maybe I should wait a bit to make sure it’s baked, but this is GREAT news. PNGs to do corners and…
JibJab is so cool. They allow you to upload your own photo into the middle of their movie. How the hell do they do that?! Watch this one. I am in it. REMOVED LONG AGO
Wow, that was fast. WordPress 2.6 is released. I actually had trouble with it for the first time ever. I downloaded the ZIP file and it had errors. I then tried the TAR file and it worked like normal, magically and instantly. This is my first moment using it, so I haven’t seen specifics about…
I love upgrades. Trillian Astra just sent an update that allows me to see when someone is STARTING a message to me. I love this feature. I am so excited about it. Whenever I see the “Joe Smith is preparing a message to you”, I get giddy! I can’t believe how long Trillian Astra has…
There is one thing I love more than anything else, and that’s Katie. However, a close second runner-up is trying new software. I love new software. I love trying new things. I am addicted to it. My theme is no exception. The newness of it is just intoxicating. As you can see, I have the…