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Button Placement on Forms and Popup Windows
August 12th, 2008 |How many times did you complete a form only to push the “Clear” button instead of “Submit”? What about “OK” vs. “Cancel” on a popup window? (Raises both hands — one for each.) Why does this happen? Do we expect one button on the left and the other on the right? Are they too close together? Jakob [...]
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The Easy and Hard Way to Start a Blog
July 21st, 2008 |In all these years, I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything about starting a blog. Someone emailed me asking how to get a blog and start blogging. So here you go. There’s an easy way and there’s a hard way. The Easy Way Here you just fill out a form, make a few choices, and you’re in business. [...]
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Links: 2008-07-18
July 18th, 2008 |Merriam-Webster releases new words to its Collegiate Dictionary including… Air quotes: My brother makes fun of me whenever I do this — which ain’t often. Edamame: What took so long? Fanboy Malware: Yuck, but at least we all know [...]
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Games up for Grabs at Blog 8th Birthday Bash
May 30th, 2008 |It may be this blog’s birthday, but the presents will go to readers like you. All the birthday details here. Here are the games up for winning! Reflexive contributes a total of 10 copies of three games! Some are for Mac. Big Kahuna Reef 2: 4 copies (2 Mac [...]
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Blog 8th Birthday Celebration Prizes
May 21st, 2008 |Wow! Meryl is overwhelmed at the generosity of donated prizes and guest blog posts in celebration of this blog’s 8th birthday on June 1, 2008. Thank you for helping me (the blog) give her a little break. If only she would take a vacation OUTSIDE of Texas. That’s another battle. There’s still time to contribute a [...]
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Game du Jour: Week of 2008-05-05
May 5th, 2008 |Build-a-lot 2: Town of the Year already available at a discount! The following games will be discounted this week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Mon. May 5th: 60% off on The Butler Did It! Tue. May 6th: 40% off on Build-a-lot 2: Town of the Year Wed. May 7th: 60% [...]
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Control Feature Creep
September 17th, 2007 |Every new release of an application adds more features, but not always for the better. Get ten tips for getting feature frenzy under control. In writing an article about social network sites, I looked at over two dozen sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Sermo, TravBuddy, MyCreativeCommunity. Wikipedia provides a list of many social networking [...]
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Office 2007 Spelling Updates
October 17th, 2006 |The Microsoft Office Team reports that Microsoft has added 58,000 words to the US English dictionary including the following: Possessives, i.e. the possessive form of words that already were in the lexicon The most frequent male, female and last names from the 2000 Census data and other sources. Examples: Brianne, Britta, Carissa, Carolyn, Carmela Company names, such as [...]
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Managing Email Spam with POPFile
April 11th, 2006 |When I had to re-install everything on my computer, I opted not to install a few programs including the one I used to manage spam. It wasn’t bad, but I felt it wasn’t as effective as it could be. I rarely hear about a 100 percent effective spam solution, but I had enough of the [...]
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Shopping Price Comparison Sites and Discount Stores
December 18th, 2005 |With all the price comparison sites available, I’m posting them all in one post because it’s just tough to keep up and remember them all. The first three places I go whenever I shop are Froogle, Pricegrabber, and ISBN.nu. I don’t just buy from the place offernig the best price. It also depends on the business’ [...]
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