Posts Tagged: Usability & Design
Feature Suggestion for YouTube: Double-Time
Posted by on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in - 2 comments
I think almost any video on YouTube would benefit from having a “play at double-speed” button. Who has time to watch a full 25-second video in real-time? • While I’m (mostly) joking here, this is the kind of thing you’d actually be able to do if the video weren’t in a proprietary Flash …
"That’s one of the great contradictions of white people. For the most part, all the world’s ills are based on large, evil corporations -- government corruption, American expansion through the use of corporate contracts, pollution, globalization, every bad thing that's happened. But if it happens …
Posted by on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in - 1 comment
The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 2 comments
With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands. • My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial …
Here’s a code-swarm visualization of the Swat open-source project I work on.
Posted by on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in
Seeing Through Google's New Icon
Posted by on Sunday, June 1, 2008 in - 8 comments
Google has a new favicon. If you don’t know what a favicon is, rather than explain it, I’ll suggest that you probably won’t care about the rest of this post. • If you’re still with me, the new favicon is notable because the old one was a small but ubiquitous sign-post on the web. What I find …
“it’s harder to shoot someone if they’re your Facebook friend”
Posted by on Saturday, December 29, 2007 in - 6 comments
Peter Rukavina - from a debate about the impact of social software: • “ • “it’s harder to shoot someone if they’re your Facebook friend” • ”
Silkscreen Under the Open Font License
Posted by on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 in - 3 comments
Jason Kottke has released his pixel-font, Silkscreen, under the Open Font License. This means it can be included in most open-source software distributions by default. • Thanks, Jason.
The Silent Majority (of laptop users)
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 in - 6 comments
I’ve often wondered how it is that Apple remains in the single-digit percentages of market share, while any computer-related event I attend (even open-source software related conferences) seems riddled with MacBooks (and PowerBooks, though to a less extent these days). • Who’s the other 95% of …
Inconsolata: Quality Free and Open Font for Programmers
Posted by on Sunday, September 9, 2007 in - 10 comments
If you spend a significant amount of time working with any type of scripting, code, or markup, then you’re probably looking at a monospace (fixed-width for each character) font. • The quality of these fonts varies, though the defaults that ship with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are …
Solitaire: The End of Desktop Applications
Posted by on Monday, August 20, 2007 in - 2 comments
The web-based version of Solitaire at WorldOfSolitaire.com is as smooth and playable as the version included in Windows or Gnome by default. This is the end of desktop software - Solitaire was the final frontier. • Note that it is not built with Flash, but Javascript, CSS, HTML, via YUI.