Archive for February, 2007

Gizmo does the instant messenger thing right…

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Om Malik on Broadband talks about Gizmo 3.0 "The company claims that it is the first VoIP software client to tie multiple popular VoIP networks. Gizmo Project 3.0 include real-time file sharing which users to exchange files with other Gizmo Project 3.0 users, or send files directly to any major Jabber ...

Pfeiffer on Vista UI “Friction”

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

This ComputerWorld article syndicated on Yahoo News highlights some of what I have always found to be the problem with the Windows UI. Friction is a good word for it of course. It just slows you down. The issue I've found is that although Windows, including XP and Vista, included items such ...

OpenCoffee Clubs?

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Link swiped from EirePreneur What is it? An attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting. Something that can be replicated in anywhere else at little or no cost — though we do want ...

John Gruber on Playing Fair.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Before I start, this isn't some impassioned plea for one side or the other on the DRM debate (but I guess I'm acting a little like a headline whore mainstream journalist by including the words play and fair. Gruber, in his rather great web site, Daring Fireball, writes about whether ...

Tom Murphy defines Web 2.0

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Tom writes: The exciting thing about Web 2.0 is that people can come together online with a host of new channels, tools and technologies and do amazing things. I was just going to write: Brave Man. What is web 2.0 really about? Funnily enough it's just over a year since I defined it ...

Plain text is just hokey compared to “plain text”

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Ian Betteridge writes:After a couple of months of using Thunderbird as my main mail client, I’m back to Mail instead. ... So - despite the hokey format that Mail stores your email in - I’ll be back with it for the foreseeable future. Ian has a problem with....plain text? Here's a ...

What’s On Where 4 Kids launches…

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

This month, I took some time out to launch What's On Where For Kids in Northern Ireland, a web site aimed at parents who want to find out what's going on in the province as well as get some sort of accurate user reviews of places. The guys working there ...

Brooker hates you. Probably.

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Charlie Brooker of the Guardian writes: I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. He goes on further to describe how Mac people are the sort of scaredy cats too nervous ...

I make bees look idle.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

One of the biggest problems with being involved in several things at once, is that there comes a time when everything just piles up and you end up with a Gridlock Day. This is different to a Groundhog Day :) I'm having one of those days today. The clutch went on my ...

UI Prototying

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

As we move into the testing of Product B in preparation for a later release, I'm buoyed up by this article on using paper to prototype user interfaces. To be honest I already do this, using drawing skills gained by disembowelling and drawing the corpses of small animals and plants during ...