Icon design falls into the “hard” category in my book. It really breaks down to a minimal conveyance of an idea that also has to be attractive and fit into the rest of your design. This is a rather good breakdown of the various mistakes you see in various operating systems and applications. In the [...]
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(Note: I’m cleaning out some topics I wanted to get to… so these aren’t necessarily timely thoughts I’m exposing here. This trend will probably continue until I actually get caught up.) It literally is amazing how far Microsoft has sunk under its own weight. I know there have been a lot of examples of late [...]
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Google Maps finally allows you to modify the route when you get directions. You can click-n-drag anywhere on the blue direction line to move it to another street. The interface is pretty slick. I’m actually surprised it took this long.
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The following is a description on using the Clearquest 2003 windows application. Ok… I have a query that I need to send to someone via email. What I need is an “Export Query” option. Lets try under the file menu. Hm… no export option. Ok, lets try right clicking on the query I want to [...]
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Anyone who took an advanced Computer Science class must have had an assignment like this. However, what I really wish is that my professors had explained the assignment better or used something like this as an example. I found the description of his expierence really interesting and his expierence seemed more enlightening than my equivalent [...]
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To start, I really like Java as a programming language. Because of its “library,” it is very is to be productive quickly, without having to reinvent the wheel each time. When you combine that with an IDE like Eclipse and a graphics library like SWT, Java is amazingly powerful. Now that I’ve got that out [...]
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In case you were curious, I thought I’d give a run down of the Firefox extensions that I use. Its extension system is quite impressive, keeping bloat away from the main executable, while at the same time letting users have full control over customizations. With IE being so incredibly stagnant, Firefox has stepped in and [...]
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