A Day With My DVD
The advantage of writing a newsletter such as this is that there is no end of stories out there about complicated equipment… I recently purchased an inexpensive DVD player (which may have been part of...
View ArticleSometimes No Amount of Design Can Help…
When a Florida flight crashed in December of 1972, the black box was of immense help in determining the cause of the crash. Sadly, it wasn’t design error or mechanical failure – it was human error. The...
View ArticleShortcuts to Easier Computing
In my business I spend a lot of time at my computer. While I don’t mind it, I certainly don’t enjoy wasting my time, and keep on the lookout for ways to simplify my work. One method I’ve used...
View ArticleImproving The Customer Experience In Software
As I read this title, I realize that this could be the start of a book, not a short article. Ultimately, every bit of software written is for somebody (even just for the programmer who wrote it). So...
View ArticleDesign Issues – Working With Files
As veteran users of software, we are accustomed to managing our own files. More than likely, you’ve used Explorer to navigate around your hard drive, and grown accustomed to the file open and save...
View ArticleThe All-Pervasive Dialog
Dialogs are everywhere- those little popup boxes that give us an inside peek as to what the computer is up to. They’re often necessary (aren’t you glad there’s an ‘are you sure’ box when you’ve...
View ArticleWhy Are Captchas Case Sensitive?
Why is it so many captchas are case sensitive – does it really matter if I enter ‘E’ or ‘e’? As well, have you noticed how often the letters are uppercase, so not only do you need to fiddle with the...
View ArticleUsing NVDA For The Blind On Windows
I’m not blind, but after reading Graham’s McCreath’s The Politics of Blindness I’ve been trying to be more aware of their problems with viewing data online. For example, I can’t figure out how a blind...
View ArticleThe Utopia Open Source Braille Reader/Display ‘Audrey’
This is an introduction to the Braille Display Project Continue reading →
View ArticleOn Windows-Mac Synergy (Or How to Kill 4+ Hours Saving Time…)
As I write this, I am happily going back and forth from monitor to monitor with my mouse – not unusual, as I’ve been using two monitors for a while now – the difference is that one is Windows 7, and...
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