by Tom | Jul 6, 2001 | General
DaveNet: The Micro Channel Architecture. Interesting, although his historical facts are wrong. The general trend seems right though: quite often, people have tried to kill something that users like. The users tend to route around this. 4:53:57 PMiomart mops up...
by Tom | Jul 3, 2001 | General
The most horrible page on the internet.. Terrifying. 11:50:25 AM602 Office software suite is free for any use and is a remarkably good copy of Word / Excel / Photo Editor. Roll on their version of PowerPoint. I could seriously contemplate using this. 11:49:57...
by Tom | May 31, 2001 | General
Good article on multilingual websites. Not too many definite conclusions, but c’est la vie. 2:17:26 PMSome good ideas on designing mobile applications. “Good application design requires thought about intent, context, and technology. Intent is what the user...
by Tom | May 30, 2001 | General
Interesting link on developing FAQs using binary trees. 1:12:20 PMDead right ‘Mouse-trapping’ has to be a bad idea. The browser is bad enough – breaking the back button just can’t be sensible. 11:47:02 AMWeak but interesting guide to a way of...
by Tom | May 29, 2001 | General
Good sense of humour in this article about how interface design is important [lies, damn lies: Word needs 30% more key presses and 100% more mouse movements than an “optimal” word processor. 6:25:53 PMI agree – the keyboard isn’t dead yet....
by Tom | May 24, 2001 | General
I hope people sort this out soon! The CDDB was one of the first great ideas of the internet. 5:17:12 PMI imagine that this will be banned: Duration of Yellow Lights Shortened To Yield More Traffic Ticket Revenue. 5:10:15 PMWhile this is an interesting case of faking...
