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3D Interface Design for dummies

The first dimension was the command line. The second dimension was windowed interfaces. Every two or three months someone decides that it's time for the third dimension with a revolutionary 3D...

Enable Callto links for Vonage phones

I recently got on a rant about telephone not integrating well with PC’s. For example if I have a phone number right on the screen there’s no way I can quickly place the call. Anyway I wrote a ...

Do you Telephone take this PC till death do you part?

I while back I started writing about the combination of a PC's and Telephones. I started thinking more about this as I was designing some telephony integration into a customer relationship pro...

Next Step for Search Engines

There are several aspects to a modern search engine. Ability to index web pages Ability to search and rank web indexed page results Ability to display results in a meaningful way So far most...

Multi-PC single user experience

In a one PC home it's easy to keep a consistent user experience. Simply set up the welcome screen and Fast User Switching with multiple user accounts in windows XP and all your apps files and ...

Creating Hierarchy

When I talk to software companies they are perpetually trying to put things in hierarchical structures for their data. These are three conversations I've had this week... A person is an objec...

TV 2.0 fix this idiot box

I've had to fix the TV for my grandmother about 10 times over the last two months. These visits have been like an informal usability test. The problem is that technology features are driven by...

Vod Casting - video on demand

Many people have now heard of the term PodCasting but broadcasting audio to your iPod is just the beginning. The next wave of content will be brought to your TV, on demand. The new underground...

WYCSSINWYG - How I hate HTML and its ugly sister CSS

The tragic story of HTML HTML started off as a simple markup for text. It was really basic way to do add a little bit for formatting to what was at the time a text only web. The tags where simple:...

Google's Web Browser

Is Google building a web browser? I'd bet on it. Google, our friendly search engine giant is very likely taking a look at developing their own web-browser. Some may say that building a web bro...