Tag Archives: Usability

Touchpads vs trackballs vs trackpoints vs mice

My very first laptop was an IBM Thinkpad 500.  I won’t go into the specs except to say it was OLD.  One spec I will mention is that it had a Trackpoint.  You know, one of those eraserhead things that … Continue reading

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Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare

The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading

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Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare

The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading

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Windows Vista Build 5270 – Heading in the right direction?

I’ve been playing with the most recent CTP of Vista over the past few days in order to test compatibility and just get a general feel for where this next version of the operating system is taking us.  So far, … Continue reading

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Politically incorrect moment

After many entries into the Win a DocuPen RC800 contest, Rob Bushway has finally picked the winner of the contest.  Go ahead and read the winning entry. I have to say that I’m a bit puzzled by his choice.  Keep … Continue reading

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Do we need network drivers any more?

On our way back from Fry’s, I was musing upon the installation I was going to have to do with this new networking equipment.   So I had to ask the million dollar question…why do we need special drivers for … Continue reading

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How to make downloading a pain in the butt

I ran across some videos about Atlas, an AJAX framework for ASP.NET 2.0, that I wanted to watch since we’re planning on making some use of this stuff in future development at SnapStream.  I wanted to download these videos. I’m … Continue reading

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