Asa Dotzler – Firefox and more: get acrobat reader 7 – This is one of those things that I find interesting and while I don’t have Adobe Reader 7.0 on my system I’m sure that over time I’ll udpate the copy I do use…
Archive for October, 2005
Teaching ‘old dogs’ new tricks…
17
Oct
This Desktop screenshot got me rolling around laughing… I guess it shows that you can ‘teach old dogs new tricks’, or in this case a Son helps out his parents. (Found on lifehacker).
Russell Brown Tips & Techniques
14
Oct
Russell Brown Tips & Techniques – A great set of tutorials for Photoshop. I was actually looking for tutorials for inDesign, but I’m very happy to have fond this site…
Ambient Executive Dashboard
14
Oct
Ambient Executive Dashboard – Very interesting… I must say that this has a number of “stars” going off in my head now…
43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages
03
Oct
43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages – This is a good article… I’m thinking of trying to see if I can make up a “crib-sheet” and pass it around the office (for the non-blog readers)…
Creating Passionate Users: Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
03
Oct
Creating Passionate Users: Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide – I was just reading this article and I must say that there are a lot of things here that really “spark” my interest. Some of them are:
- Capture user stories.
- Get your hands on a video camera, and record some users.
- Print out little signs that say things like, “How does this help the user kick ass?” and leave them lying on the copier, or the fax machine, or taped on a bulletin board and your cube/office wall.
- Challenge user-unfriendly assumptions every day.
and finally
- Blog about it