Tech Superstition
March 18th, 2007
Excellent article about technological superstition by Jeff Raskin.
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Archive for the 'Usability' Category
Firefox 2.0 – More visible tabs
October 19th, 2006
While I understand the need for adding the left-right arrows on the tab-strip when there are many tabs open, I reckon Firefox 2.0 switches to this solution too quickly which bugged me to bits.
Luckily, there’s a fix for that:
Go to the Firefox’s ‘behind-the-scenes’ configuration screen by typing ‘about:config’ in the URL bar.
Search for the property [...]
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Some small points regarding Firefox 2.0 preview
October 11th, 2006
I have been using it since this morning and overall, Firefox 2.0 preview seems to be an excellent upgrade so far. It feels much faster and very responsive.
The session restore feature was hard to find because I was looking for the phrase ‘Session Restore’ in the preferences. However, in FF 2.0 you simply have to [...]
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Google Spreadsheets + One Feature = Excel Killer
June 13th, 2006
I’ve written the Google Lab’s spreadsheet team (through their feedback mechanism) with this suggestion but would like to share my idea here as well.
Basically, I think there’s only one feature missing that would make Google Spreadsheets the complete Excel killer.
What would make it truly an Excel killer is to allow one to reference data in [...]
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MS Office 2007 – The Soft Belly of the Beast
May 25th, 2006
Let me jump right into the water and say: Microsoft’s new Office 2007 is a very different product from its predecessors and as such represents a very weak spot in the usually hardened Microsoft armor. This version of Office may start a huge switch-over to OpenOffice and alternatives.
This is the case not because Office 2007 [...]
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