Notebook

Shortening is for Baking

April 8th, 2009 by Daniel J. Wilson

David Weiss (The Security Implications of URL Shortening Services) and Joshua Schachter (on url shorteners) both wrote about URL shortening services recently, focusing mostly on security. I began drafting this post a while ago because of the negative impacts of such services on link usability. Shortened links remove valuable information from the address string. Maybe [...]

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More Intelligent Design for Evolution

April 2nd, 2009 by Daniel J. Wilson

Evolution is generally a good app, so the e-mail account configuration assistant sticks out. Unfortunately, it is the first thing users encounter after first launching Evolution. First, a pointless welcome message that refers to the Assistant by a name different from the window title. It appears that prime marks rather than quotation marks enclose “Forward”. [...]

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