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Firefox and Fonts

Why can't Firefox render certain characters? Instead of certain letters you get a box with a question mark. This issue has been a minor annoyance to me but I could see this being a major adopt...

Multi-touch audio application

This is a pretty interesting video of a new type of musical instrument. People are still figuring out what to do with multi-touch technology. While the same interface could be done on a 2D scr...

Gigapixel images

Your camera takes megapixel images. A single screen resolution of 1024x768 is 786,000 pixels or almost a megapixel. This resolution is great for everyday viewing and gives you enough resolutio...

Phone Menu Mistakes

"Our menu items have changed so please listen carefully..." - Do they really think I memorized their menus? "We are experiencing unusually high call volume" - ... No. this happens to you all the...

How to fix the voting machine problem in the US

There is a myth that computers will always make things better and a great example of this myth in action is voting. While computers are great at adding up numbers they don't know what those nu...

Review: UserTesting.com

I've always been a big believer in usability testing. It's the perfect parallel to functional testing. You just don't know how people will use your product untill you watch people actually usi...

Top mistakes made creating tables of data and how to avoid them

Interfaces design is all about managing data input and output. Input is done through various forms. Output is done most often through tables of data. There are a number of basic things that ca...

Web Start Menu

I've been exploring some interesting concepts with how you start a web application. When you want to start a traditional application you use either the "Start Menu" in Windows or the "Dock" in...

Web Design Acid Test - Is not what you think

For several years the bar that is used to measure web-browsers has been the Acid Test. This test is a measure of standards compliance with HTML, CSS. Unfortunatly the test is somewhat useless....

iPhone Discoveries

Here are some tips tricks that I discovered about the iPhone that I didn't know when I got the device. Some of these may be obvious some may be tricks you find useful. These are all things you...