Yet another interesting use of Flash. The presentation is in Q&A format. You move your mouse over a student to get a question. Then click on the student for the answer. Strange UI technique but be rest assured the answers are quite useful if you are a blogger or web publisher or wannabe one.
Today we will discuss three productivity tips which has helped me most in Firefox last year.
Location bar for "I'm Lucky" Google Search
In the location bar (where you type in the URL) if you type in a word or phrase and hit [Enter] - the browser does a "I'm Lucky" Google search which effectively does the search and takes you to the first matching page.
Often sites have domains not exactly matching your expectations i.e. www.[Site Name].com.
For example sourceforge and boingboing sites are located on .net domains. This allows you to simply type in boingboing and you will be taken to the most popular location.
On the persistent insistence of my niece I finally decided to put up my picture on the blog. However I didn't go the full mile.
In the new year lets look back to Apache Harmony, the much publicised effort to create "open source" J2SE announced in early May last year.
I was reading an entertaining article from Jacob Neilson on weblog usability. I take this opportunity for self-assessment.
To summarize the key usability blunders he points out are:
