Accessibility for applications has been used for over 10 years to help users quickly navigate. When you hit the ALT key the menus light up and you can tell the access keys by the underlines on...

The value of Google increases as more information is placed on the internet. The larger the internet space the more important it is to have a great search engine. But lately more and more data...

Email notification is a sweet seducer of your time. You've got mail! It's exciting, someone cares enough to write something to you. The sound of the new message, the pop-up notification begs y...

There is a general principal of software interaction called "Fitts Law" briefly stated this says that things that are far from the mouse are hard to click and things that are small are also ha...

I saw this picture of the LG-KV5900 and was inspired to render this image in Photoshop to illustrate an idea that's been percolating in my head of a true cellphone meets ipod. (this image is ...

The system folder on my computer has 4GB of stuff in it. It's impossible to tell what's needed and what isn't. In a default installation of Windows there is little control over where a program...

For years the open-source Linux community has been competing with Microsoft to become the dominant desktop operating system. Linux has made great progress as a server OS but continues to struggle t...

The APIs and functions that developers create for software often influence the user interface that is later created by other developers. It's therefore important to consider the interface impl...

Next week is the first ever world usability day. The event hopes to raise awareness of usability and creating simple to use products. Check out http://worldusabilityday.org to see if there are...

I recently got this dialog box telling me I had just 3 seconds left in my installation. In fact I had way more then 3 seconds because the software had an error right at the end. As the progress ...