October 2008
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Want windows? Use windows
Chris Clark:
Camino jumped on the “Hey Guys! We could totally make it look like Exposé” bandwagon.
… you know what’d be even more useful? Tabs that work with real Exposé.
Peter Bright:
All applications get thumbnails, but applications with explicit support for 7 will be able to add thumbnails on a finer-grained basis. IE8, for instance, has a thumbnail per tab (rather than per...
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AppJet and Web 2.0
It’s too late for me to properly reply to Tim O’Reilly’s post about cloud computing, but there is one thing I’ve learnt during this week’s AppJet jaunt (as described over on Vox), and it relates to a point right at the bottom of his post:
the cloud platform, like the software platform before it, has new rules for competitive advantage. And chief among those advantages...
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Fix Yr Tumblr Template Titles
I’m a big fan of meaningful titles. Not only do they make your web browser’s history easier to navigate, but they also give bookmarks - both local and shared - meaningful, and they’re good for IRC and IM conversations too. I’m told they’re important for SEO, but I’m not exactly bothered about that one.
When I first published my custom theme for notes.husk.org,...
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Irony in Stamps
A to Z of New Zealand stamps:
indirectly via pixelace.
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#2lmc on Moo and Photobox
blech: [[ megp: Oh, lame: Photobox actually import your pics from Flickr to Photobox for printing. Boo! Dear Moo, please can we have calendars? ]]
blech: a) what's so bad about that? b) don't Moo have to "import" as well?
blech: maybe she means "Photobox put up a new gallery with copies of my photos"
ChrisDodo: or import, wait, then pick and buy
blech: ah, possibly. Yes, Moo avoid that.
blech: job queue!
blech: everything's a [EXPLETIVE DELETED] job queue!
muttley: and a pipeline!
blech: and a surprise!
jerakeen: moo have to send you email warning you to not delete the photos from your acount or make the private, though.
jerakeen: so they're not exactly flawless here
jerakeen: however, both are better than [REDACTED] fetching all the high-rez images off the server before returning from the SOAP call that created the basket
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The Ear-hair of Usability
Ned Richards just posted a link to an article on the armpit of usability. It suggests that there’s a correlation between a decrease in usability and the level of speciality of an application:
I don’t really disagree with this, but it did remind me of something else I noticed at my old job, when they changed from an in-house timesheet system to Maconomy (horrifying slogan:...
