Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror extracts from Jacob Nielsen’s latest book Prioritizing Web Usability, it is interesting how flash is still listed as a problem, a “two skulls” problem! this comes out in 2007?I respect Jacob Nielsen very much, though he is a problematic card...
Category: User Interface
Adobe Kuler has improved, now I want more!
Okay, this is more like it! Adobe Kuler team has released a new version, browsing schemes is much faster, and the tags add a cool way to explore. Now I would like to see the tagging evolve, maybe grouping tags, public tags and owner tags...
Apollo this is earth, do you read?
Eric Dolecki wrote an inspiring post about “what Apollo might bring“, I must admit I share his excitement, I witnessed Flash evolve from a graphics and animation oriented application into a global standard RIA platform, empowering new approaches to User Interface, and changing the web...
Joost Mac beta released – perhaps too early?
Joost (up until recently code named ‘The Venice Project’ ) has released it’s Mac beta (only Intel Macs at the moment) – this is good news for us Mac users.The general feeling is pretty much same as with Windows, performance is good, video quality has...
Hello? is this flash video on my phone?
Adobe announced in the 3GSM Congress that the next release of Flash Lite™ (Flash for mobile phones & devices) will support Flash Video (FLV), to be available in the first half of 2007 – that’s really soon!This means the same video we view with our...
What’s your Bookmarks system?
One of the interesting differences between people is how they organize their bookmarks – I have a folder based system for my bookmarks, sorted by activities (see my example cap) I find this system fairly intuitive for adding new bookmarks and also finding it later,...
Adobe Kuler – color schemes made cooler
For those who are not subscribed to the Adobe Edge newsletter, Adobe recently released Kuler – a really cool free on-line platform for creating & sharing Color schemes.Creating the color schemes is really easy & fun, colors can be defined in RGB, CMYK, LAB, HEX,...
Spend a night with Geni – a new Genealogy site
A new genealogy tree creation site has recently been launched, but this one Geni.com is really fun! without presumptuous features, the interface is made in Flash, so easy & strait forward that even my grandma can manage. Yesterday I sent my parents an invitation to...
The Venice Project Interface oddities – a quick review
Before commenting about the interface I must say that the Venice Project client has very good table manners and generally behaves very nice, before installing it checks your hardware and informs you if your computer meets the requirements, uninstalling is also a breeze, very nice...
Cyberduck your files – ftp for mac
I was using all kind of FTP clients along the years, mainlly on PC’s, and my Mac was always neglected because there was no decent client to work with. when I found this great free application – Cyberduck – I was surprized how well it...