Dear Duke Energy, I would like to activate my account online, as I very much cherish the wonderful utilities that you bring to me in my daily life. However, in your quest to make your website “Web 2.0″ cool, with Wizbang Ajax, you have managed to make me and every other Firefox and Safari user, [...]
Unofficial LinkedIn Profile API
I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie – an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.
Who needs Movers? (Noblesville Indiana style) [Photo]
This photo (unfortunately) was taking only 20 minutes from where I live.
How you’ll interact with your computer in 5 years.
I predict in 5 years (hopefully sooner), the keyboard and mouse will be a thing of the past.
The Captcha – here comes the robots!
Do you know what a Captcha is? I am sure you have dealt with them, but I bet most of you don’t know what their purpose is. Unfortunately, there are a lot of programmers out there that write “bots” that are small little programs that run on a computer and scourer websites trying to find [...]
Blog by Phone with Jott.com
Jott you had me at “Who do you want to jott?”. Jott.com is a mobile service that converts your voice in to text. How many times have you been struck by brilliance while driving? Every time it happens to me, I now hit my jott.com favorite and boom it’s captured. On top of the basics, [...]
Fawnt – Free fonts – 2.0 style
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web’s highest quality fonts. Fawnt – Top free fonts | Font – Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign Blogged with Flock
Have you appreciated a beautiful font lately?
I often find it relaxing to slow down for a moment and truly appreciate a beautiful font. Qlassik being one of my current favorites – check out some other free fonts from this Smashing Magazine post… 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Appendant Blog » Employmentguide.com Usability Review
Took a cue from Cheezhead today and trotted over to the newly redesigned Employmentguide.com. While it does have a much more …vibrant look (the front page is busier than Jackee from 227), it seems like it might just be a nip/tuck job as opposed This Old House. Very interested in this tidbit: Said vice president [...]
4 steps to building simple software using a child.
My 10 year old daughter has been my “usability tester” on virtually every application I have built over the last 4 years. Usually, I do not have the money nor the time for formal usability group testing, instead I figure “if my daughter can solve various tasks in my product – then at least 80% [...]
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