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Microsoft Expression Engine

Microsoft's come out with range of Expression products for graphic and web designers. I hope its not annoying like most of its other products.
Date: 30 Jun 2006 | Categories: News, Front end development, Visual Design | Leave a comment

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File Magazine- A Collection of Unexpected Photography

File Magazine- A Collection of Unexpected Photography
Date: 29 Jun 2006 | Categories: Photography | Leave a comment

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W3C India

I didn't know they had an office here in India.. and right where i stay... Noida.

Kickass! Personally, the only thing I liked about Noida til now was Elevate. Now theres the W3C.

Date: 28 Jun 2006 | Categories: Accessibility | Leave a comment

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Thesaurus.com: Extending usability through URL's

If you ever drop by Thesaurus.com, notice on performing a word search its intuitive URL strucure.

For example, if you're performing a search for the word 'sloth', on hitting the 'Search' button and arriving on the next page, the url which appears in your browser is http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/sloth. This is a pretty intuitive way for users to know that they can alternately look for synonyms and antonyms right out of the url.

If you wanted to perform another search, all you'd have to do would be to replace 'sloth' in http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/sloth with what ever word you wanted. Eg: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/plastic.

Date: 27 Jun 2006 | Categories: Usability | Leave a comment

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A USB Air Conditioned Shirt!

a U.S.B fan shirt

USB this USB that. Here's a USB fan now. Check out the link below for more details.

USB Air Conditioned Shirt
Date: 26 Jun 2006 | Categories: Cool shit | Leave a comment

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Flash Satay Not Read by JAWS

Andrew Kirkpatrick and Bob Regan at Macromedia tested these popular alternative Flash plugin detection techniques developed to avoid XHTML validation problems that occur otherwise with Flash's default plugin detection method. Drew's Flash Satay, Bobby's UFO, Geoff's Flash Object and Ian's Nested Object Method were tested on different browsers.

As Bob says, I personally prefer the Nested Object Method because it steers clear of JavaScript which means it will run universally, whether or not JavaScript is enabled on a user's machine or not.

Date: 25 Jun 2006 | Categories: Accessibility, Flash | Leave a comment

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Micosoft Word Shortcuts for Windows

I hope to keep adding shortcuts for Word in Windows. Hope it comes in handy. I'm gonna use it as a reference myself:

  • Shift+F3 - Change case (keep pressing combo to execute different options like uppercase, lowercase, etc)
Date: 25 Jun 2006 | Categories: Apps | Leave a comment

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Graffiti Taxonomy

Variations of the graffiti tag 'S'

The alphabet ‘S' is reproduced from photographs of tags taken in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, while the 'A' is reproduced from tags from Central Park North to 125th St. in Harlem.

I like Fi5e.

If you're wondering why I wrote fi5e instead of ni9e, it's because I've seen links to ni9e written as fi5e so...

Date: 24 Jun 2006 | Categories: Cool shit, Visual Design | Leave a comment

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Noticed the new Yahoo! layout?

I just did right now. Yahoo! has a new look after all these years.

Yahoo!'s always been supreme in terms of page performance (fast page loads). You also have the option to revert to the old layout in the footer. Doing so effectively allows those users who would prefer the old layout (for bandwidth reasons, or simply like the old layout) to be in control of their Yahoo page. A really good usability feature. The positioning of the option is debatable however.

Date: 23 Jun 2006 | Categories: News, Usability | Leave a comment

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Emile Morel.. Oh so beautiful!

Art by Emile Morel

More Art by Emile Morel

Date: 22 Jun 2006 | Categories: Cool shit, Art, Visual Design | Leave a comment

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What's a Favicon and how to Create Your Own Favicon

Ever wondered what that little 16x16 image in the address bar left of the URI of some websites is? In case you don't, it's a Favicon.

Creating favicons is really simple. All you have to do to have your own favicon is create a 16x16 graphic in .gif or .jpg format and change the extension to .ico and place it in the root directory of you web server, the same place where your web site files are stored.

Of course, you can use favicon.co.uk, a free favicon editor if you'd like to make it a little easier or aren't into using image editors like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

Date: 21 Jun 2006 | Categories: Front end development | Leave a comment

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Usability Terminology and Definitions at the Usability First Glossary

As Nielsen found out in a survey of Usability professionals, oral skills and communication are very important of inclusions to their skill set, considering the amount of it that is required to bring all stakeholders on the same page.

In order to communicate effectively, one must communicate consistently and with clarity. It's thus important to know often used terms inside out. While you already might know most of the, the Usability Glossary serves as a good reference to go by every once in a while. Though the definitions are brief in most cases, it's a good resource none the less.

Date: 20 Jun 2006 | Categories: Usability | Leave a comment

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Quit Smoking

I've always wanted to quit smoking. But yesterday night, out of no real reason at all, I decided to look up a few quit smoking websites. These websites were pretty cool because they gave me the impression that I coud actually quit smoking. So I'm compiling a list of useful websites which might help you quit smoking as well. You can quit too. Add more if you know of any useful sites. In fact there's even one which says smoke a week before you quit to record you're smoking habits you can later take control of. I like that plan . Naa, just kidding.

http://quitsmoking.about.com/

Four smokers using unconventional methods to stub out the habit

9 Strategies to Quit Smoking

Date: 19 Jun 2006 | Categories: Blah | Leave a comment

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The Graffiti Research Lab

Dedicated to Outfitting Graffiti Artists with Open Source Technologies for Urban Communication
Date: 18 Jun 2006 | Categories: Cool shit, Visual Design | Leave a comment

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Defective by Design

As Microsoft developers gathered in Seattle to hear Bill Gates's keynote speech on the future of Microsoft and the coming release of its updated operating system Vista, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits swarmed the entrance of the city's convention center, delivering an unsettling message to the corporation: your product is defective and hazardous to users. The surprise protest marked the launch of DefectiveByDesign.org, a direct-action campaign that will target Big Media and corporations peddling Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). "Flash protests, direct actions, and practical ways that people can get involved and help stop the stupidity of DRM," is how campaign manager Gregory Heller described the grassroots effort.

If you like, you can join the Action Alert Network to stop DRM- Defective by Design.

Date: 17 Jun 2006 | Categories: Internet, Blah | Leave a comment

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All you Need to Know About Caching

A really nice tutorial on caching.

Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

Date: 15 Jun 2006 | Categories: XHTML, Front end development | Leave a comment

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DIY: How to Make "The Thing" from The Incredibles at home

The Thing D.I.Y costume

This is fantastic! I got this link from the wierdass Lycos Feedback page (if you read the post before this, you'll know) You Rock Devin? Pun intended. Check it out.

Do 'The Thing'

Date: 13 Jun 2006 | Categories: Cool shit | Leave a comment

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How do you Contact Them? Lycos and WebMokey navigation a puzzle

I was reading up an article at Webmonkey and I noticed that the article's print version didn't have the date of the article written on it. Also, besides the first page of the article(web version), the subsequent pages only displayed the name of the article omitting the authors name and date.

In my opinion, both these are considerable usability issues and the good guy that I am :p (okay, I was bored), I thought I'd email them and let them know. No harm in it after all.

And where do I get the email address to mail them from? I looked further down the page and found a 'Contact Us' link in the footer which wasn't working,site wide! So then I go up to the global Lycos Navigation Bar which forms the header along with Webmonkey (Lycos owns Wired News and Webmonkey amongst other big websites if you didn't know)and click on the sitemap but to my surprise, I find no way of contacting them there either. Erm.. wierd!

By now, I'm so fed up I don't want to look for their email address any longer, I just want to locate a form I can fill in.

Here, I find a link entitled 'feedback' and I click on it. Unfortunately, I reach a page which is probably redirecting to Lycos showcase page. Go ahead, try it on your own! Feedback

This isn't frustrating.. its weirdly funny. So after all this, I really can't send them my feedback. But its allright. I still love Webmonkey.

Date: 12 Jun 2006 | Categories: Usability | Leave a comment

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XHTML markup Tactics

Richard Rutter of Clagnut.com has written a nice post on his blog on how to code semantically in XHTML with CSS. It's definitely important because not only are we writing code now that can be understood by machines, but we're writing lean and clean code as well.

Mark-up tactics

Date: 07 Jun 2006 | Categories: CSS, XHTML, Front end development | Leave a comment

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Beatiful Weather

The weather is so awesome outside right now. Cool and breezy and the birds chirping and the clouds drawn. I'm not feeling sleepy any longer.
Date: 06 Jun 2006 | Categories: Blah | Leave a comment

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Skype Toolbar for Outlook released

Considering that most use Outlook for email and email is primary for communication in offices and home, the Skype toolbar will let you work with Skype straight out of Outlook.

Skype Toolbar for Outlook released

Date: 04 Jun 2006 | Categories: News, Accessibility | Leave a comment

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Firefox World's First Browser to Support DHTML Accessibility and Meet US Fedral Government Requirements

Accessibility Firefox 1.5 delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.

Nice. I read this as a part of Firefox 1.5's features while downloading the updated version.

Date: 03 Jun 2006 | Categories: News, Accessibility | Leave a comment

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What browser will apply what rules

Will the browser apply the rule(s)?

Date: 02 Jun 2006 | Categories: CSS, XHTML, Front end development | Leave a comment

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