Google has rolled out another update to their search engine results which changes the look of the thumbnail previews (see here). Unfortunately, they’ve also listened to the guy who’s the top hit on these results. Prior to today, if you hit the down arrow on a search results page you would activate a caret on [...]
I realise that, when this launches, it’ll be U.S.-only but I wish this were coming to Australia/Japan, stat.
A lot of people have been pointing out how ridiculous Microsoft’s new Windows Explorer UI looks but Laurie Voss is the first person I’ve seen that points out the craziest thing about the design: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the [...]
Jon Bell works as part of the Windows Phone design team. This is a great talk and the first time I’ve really thought my iPhone is not as well-designed as Windows Phone (I’m envious of something Microsoft makes that competes with an Apple product!). (via Lukas Mathis.)
It’s 2010. Are you kidding me?
So I like Twitter. It’s a source of links, small nuggets of wisdom and also a place where you can vent to the world about whatever’s got your goat without needing to write it up all good and proper so it won’t look out of place on your otherwise tidy blog. (I expend literally hours [...]
Why is it so hard for iTunes to give me an idea of how much disk space my proposed transfer is going to take on my iPod? Instead I’m left to guess how many megabytes that John Lennon album is supposed to take up and push forward simply by trial and error. Not really what [...]
As long-time readers of this blog might be aware I have something of a love-hate relationship with coComment. I want to like it. I even want to use their Firefox extension. When they make that all but impossible to use I’ll even resort to using their bookmarklet which requires me to manually activate it on [...]
I’ve been thinking about help files recently. You see, one of the roles I invariably take on at any workplace is that of the all purpose PC troubleshooter. I’m sure anyone with a vague background in computers would know what I mean. You’re considered sort of like IT, only more friendly and approachable. Which is [...]