Good googly moogly is it hard to keep the digitals organized. The other day I got mightily cheesed off trying to check my home email at work, because I left Outlook open at home rendering my webmail useless because I delete messages off the server. So I decided that it was time to get the [...]
After experimenting with the Thunderbird e-mail client from the folks at Mozilla for 6 months, I bagged it and went back to Outlook. And this was the most painful freaking software process I have been through. What a joke. I had to install a third party tool to convert my Thunderbird mail files to Outlook [...]
I avoid Microsoft Internet Explorer like a crack whore with a sore on her lip. It is completely un-secure, lacks useful features, and is full of features I don’t want. My favorite of the latter is when one types in a URL that the browser can’t resolve it redirects one to MSN and runs a [...]
Shout it loud my people: Internet Explorer is the worst browser around and shall not be used! Alas, Joe Sixpack doesn’t give a damn about browsers, he just wants to do stuff on the web. Which means we’re saddled with this piece of tripe for many moons to come, because Joe uses what the beast [...]
DateLens is this funky UI for calendars developed by the VIBE group at Microsoft Research and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. This video give a nice demonstration of the technology. It is available as a plug-in for Outlook.
For a couple of years now I have been describing myself as a Cognitive Psychologist / Information Architect / Usability Engineer. I used to be a User Experience Designer, was almost an Interaction Designer, and currently am a Senior Designer. Now Bruce Tognazzini tells me I am an Interaction Architect.
I got no beef with that. [...]
