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User Interface Forum

We recently started a user forum over at Raizlabs to give people a place to discuss User Interface Design and technology. The hope is to create a small community of interface design...

Google - Second Base

As predicted Google Base is now accepting payments. Originally I had predicted 6 months but they got a basic version working in five. You can now buy and sell products directly from Google Ba...

The dialog that launched a million Firefox downloads

The dialog that launched a million Firefox downloads If you're using IE you may begin to see this dialog more often then you would like: What hor...

Linux Thoughts in Portland Continued

Back in December I was invited to Portland, OR to speak at the Open Source Desktop Linux (OSDL) architects meeting. The attendees represented individuals from all top commercial and community ...

Functional Images

Typically an image is a composed of a grid of pixels. Each pixel has red, green and blue components. Together these pixels form an image. It's these images that form the basis of all the graph...

DRM - Dumb Recordable Media

DRM also known as digital rights management is working it's way into many technologies. Music, DVD's, Video Games, TV. At it's core DRM is the new way of saying "Anti-counterfeit technology." ...

ABC Scrollbar Control

I had an idea for a new type of scrollbar. The idea is to enhance the drag space of a scrollbar by giving users information about where in a scrollbar a particular piece of data lives. Typical...

Kiss my ARSS - That's asynchronous RSS

There are a couple problems with RSS. The first is that RSS polls for data. Instead of getting a notification that something is new RSS readers have to check for new information. This works fi...

Pimp my Software

Bad things happen if you stay up watching TV while playing with PhotoShop. (You can get your own printed T-shirt from CafePress) Hopefully I'm not stepping on the toes of MTV.

Acrobat Reloaded

The standard for opening PDF files has been Adobe Acrobat reader. I've been using this for many years and have always been underimpressed with it. The main problem for me is load time. When I ...