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• 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 barely stick out of the middle of the keyboard. At the Read More... Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:39 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability, Gadgets

• 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 I don't really know where to begin. Downloading Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:17 PM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Tablet PC, Usability

• 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 I don't really know where to begin. Downloading Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:14 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability

• 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, I'm generally pretty interested in several Read More... Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:38 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability

• 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 in mind the form factor of the DocuPen RC800. Read More... Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:52 PM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Mobile lifestyle, Usability

• 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 network adapters any more? Isn't the whole concept Read More... Posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 3:40 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability

• 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 now going to point out how Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 6:51 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability