All Blog Posts (Page 54)

Jan 09, 2007
Apple

That sound you just heard was the Mac dying

As I predicted on the 31st, Apple just announced the iPhone, and boy howdy is it ever sweet. I want one but, as I suspected, it totally lacks integration with Exchange. Most business users will probably yawn and go back to their Blackberries (even...

Jan 04, 2007
Vista

An even better screen capture tool

A while back I wrote about a new snipping tool included with Windows Vista. I just found an even cooler one just now that leverages Vista’s DWM to create perfect screen captures on Vista every time, as seen in the screenshot below: You’ll notic...

Jan 03, 2007
UI Design

Windows System Colors Chart Updated

A co-worker of mine was nice enough to update my Windows system color chart with the Royale theme from Windows XP Media Center Edition. You can find the updated chart at its original location. Thanks, Moneta!

Jan 02, 2007
Graphic Design

Learn to draw free and online

I’ll be the first to admit it: I don’t know the first thing about drawing, and it never ceases to irritate me. For this reason, I was incredibly excited when I ran into Drawspace by way of Hillel Cooperman’s weblog, today. They cover everything f...

Dec 31, 2006
Meta

A few predictions for the New Year

As this year draws to an end, I wanted to offer a few predictions for what I think 2007 will bring: Apple will release a new UI with Mac OS X 10.5 that is reminiscent of iTunes 7, and I will spend the rest of the year slagging it. ...

Dec 26, 2006
Zoon Politikon

Rahm on Rahm: Electoral Season Hysterics

GQ has an article about Rahm Emmanuel, Illinois Congressman and one of the architects of the Democratic Party’s November triumph, and the state of histrionics the party elite found itself in during the waning weeks of the campaign: Rahm delivers a...

Dec 20, 2006
Accessibility

Irony in Accessible Design

My web browser’s home page is set to MSN.com, and I just noticed an interesting-sounding article on the main page, entitled Designing for the Visually Impaired. As I have a fairly keen interest in this topic, I opened the link to discover a beauti...

Dec 18, 2006
Customers and Community

Getting a little more human every day

I spoke too soon the other day when I complained about the Geek Squad’s new automated phone system. I received an email from Robert Stephens, the company’s founder, earlier today informing me that he had read my blog, and was indeed fixing the pro...

Dec 15, 2006
Customers and Community

When clarity is the anti-goal

Helen, my girlfriend, received a new endtable from overstock.com today. It turned out that the metal frame was physically warped, and she spent 15 minutes trying to track down Overstock’s phone number in order to request an RMA number without succ...

Dec 13, 2006
Meta

Don’t do what Donny Don’t does: Email Edition

I get a lot of email everyday. And by a lot, I mean that it totals into the thousands of items*. Seriously. Much of this is addressed to various internal mailing lists to which I subscribe, such as an Xbox Discussion alias, or Visual Studio UI dis...