Outlines: The Do Everything Tool
“Writing is remarkably like software development.”
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RSS Viewer Applet: Window to
RSS Viewer Applet: Window to the World of News
LANSS: Linux Application Naming Scheme Service
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WhatWeNeed – the Linux app
WhatWeNeed – the Linux app wishing well
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Free Film Project
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The hard roots of open
The hard roots of open source software
How the road forked when proprietary software was invented
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Kevin Mitnick was no hacker
Kevin Mitnick was no hacker in testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
“The human side of computer security is easily exploited and constantly overlooked,” Mitnick explained …”
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The Sims Review I want
The Sims Review
I want this one.
Jakob Nielsen Answers Usability Questions on slashdot
“Interestingly, research by Jack Carroll at IBM in the 1980s proved that a “training wheels” approach to computers makes people better at understanding the expert features once they get to them. The reason being that users learn the conceptual structure of the system better when they are presented with the smaller set of features first. Not seeing something during initial use of the system would result in better use of the hidden features later.
…In the old days, an operating system was designed to optimize the utilization of the computer’s resources. In the future, its main goal will be to optimize the user’s time.”