April 25, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Via Usability Views:
“Wave Goodbye To The Ordinary User Interface”
Andy Wilson and Nuria Oliver of Microsoft Research are working on new ways of interacting with objects. I imagine the XWand is a stop-gap solution until tracking cameras allow …
April 24, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I think the future of human-computer interaction lies more in the multi-modal realm than the keyboard-centric approach used in Jef Raskin’s Humane Interface project and advocated in his recent Desktop Linux Summit keynote.
The keyboard is very efficient for …
April 22, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Since all but one of the default admin menu titles start with a different letter, a simple Access Key system could be set up:
| Menu Item | Access Key |
| Post | p |
| Edit | e |
| Categories | c |
| Links | l OR i |
| Users | u |
April 21, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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You mean like Aqua? :-)
I’m glad Microsoft now seems to understand that OS X isn’t just “pretty widgets” as Chairman Bill implied in the past.
Microsoft has a chance with Longhorn to get …
April 21, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The iCal standard includes a way to mark items as confirmed, so how about tying that in to an IM client, automatically setting the user’s status to Away or Busy if an event is confirmed by the user? This would …
April 17, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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April 17, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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April 15, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The New York Times Business Media & Advertising RealNetworks Seeks a Musical Alliance With Apple
Since Apple makes money off the iPod and loses or breaks even with the actual iTunes Music Store, I think they should forge some sort …
April 14, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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A while ago, I threw out the idea of a bezel to indicate when a secure connection to a server has been established. As was pointed out by Marc Nothrop in the comments on the post, a global bezel would …
April 13, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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“The No. 1 misconception is that usability is a major barrier to adoption and that’s not true. It used to be. There was a study done recently with a group of 20 users who had never used a computer before.
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April 11, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The primary reason is that I got tired of rebuilding my MovableType site after I made any changes to a template or deleted spam comments. With WordPress, once I make a change to a file or delete something, it is …
April 11, 2004
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I should have known to be wary of an anti-virus software provider making such an announcement.…