by Tom | Jan 14, 2002 | General
Clunky but free spell checker for Windows. Based on the Aspell engine. Not bad, really. 6:19:32 PM Tools Directory for Radio UserLand 8.0 (was http://toolsdirectory.manilasites.com/directory/9 now broken). You can add functionality onto Radio by downloading and...
by Tom | Jan 11, 2002 | General
Great article on what to do about screen real estate. 4:46:42 PMSaltire: “Perhaps this was just a fluke (I doubt it), but I was on Yahoo! yesterday and noticed that they are now dropping in links to ads with the rest of their news stories.” Yuk 3:33:17...
by Tom | Jan 10, 2002 | General
Unix box as a wireless base station. Ross Finlayson has put together a good document on using a Unix box as an wireless network base station. Or, for another approach, there’s a seemingly good Windows management app for the Apple Airport base station available, as...
by Tom | Jan 9, 2002 | General
Cutbacks push dot-coms toward profits. Brutal layoffs and a sharp dose of fiscal discipline over the past year and a half are offering a surprising number of Web publishers the hope of profitability at one of the worst times on record for the sector. [CNET News.com]...
by Tom | Jan 8, 2002 | General
I didn’t know that the Ham and High was online. It led me to the details of the new Arsenal stadium development. Should be OK for us, I think. 5:26:38 PM Interesting paper on design misfits. Still not quite sure what they are, but it’s a useful summary of how things...
by Tom | Jan 7, 2002 | General
Great Hollywood insider view of LOTR development. 5:59:41 PMHow to describe a project. I bet it didn’t run this smoothly really! They’ve published another paper about choosing a search engine. 5:22:53 PMJoel Spolsky: “Sometimes I just can’t get...
by Tom | Dec 21, 2001 | General
Jon Udell: Can IM Graduate to Business. He makes the interesting point that things like Groove are clever because they make no specific demands on the type of interaction you have. You can move from informal IM to formal spaces seamlessly. 11:02:13 AMMicrosoft issues...
by Tom | Dec 20, 2001 | General
Reasonable analysis of the new Earthlink wireless hotspot announcement. It suggests they may well not work, although the cost comparisons can’t be right, as they won’t own the infrastructure like Metricom did. 5:34:14 PMBrilliant! A full map of...
by Tom | Dec 19, 2001 | General
More discussion on making forms more usable. 5:59:21 PMSome real work on how we perceive banner ads. 5:56:45 PMShould spend some time going through these design methods documents. 5:53:59 PMReally not convinced that massively multi-platform portals is the way to go....
by Tom | Dec 18, 2001 | General
recent TomPaine: Paradoxes of airport security vs WTO [Robot Wisdom] 5:51:22 PMWired: Madcap Maneuvers Halt MS Hearing. Extraordinary. 4:40:16 PMGreat interview with Zeldman: particularly interesing for the tools that he uses to create. I particularly liked 2:49:46...
