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User Experience design inspiration

One of my current feed favourites comes via inspireUX – “words to inspire user experience designers”. Every second day I receive a new quote in my feed reader that focuses on the impact that user experience has on people, business, or the world.

Here is today’s quote, for example:

Content makes the sale, delivers the

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Windows Live

The difference between Google and Microsoft as I see it, apart from both trying to dominate the world, is when Google release a Beta product, it does actually work.

I visited Windows Live (live.com) today, via /..

What is Windows Live?
Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That’s the basic idea behind Windows Live. So

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My five favourite Firefox extensions

Or incidentally, the only ones I have installed. In no particular order:

  1. LinkChecker (by Kevin Freitas) – “check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today”. Install now.
  2. Greasemonkey (by Aaron

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Adblock for Firefox

The power of Adblock, a content-filtering extension for Mozilla/Firefox web browsers, continues to suprise me. So much so that I just have to, well, err, advertise it here again.

Adblock allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. If this

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Just a quickie

With little over a month left to go, a week in review: visited the world’s smallest country, saw the Pope talk outside the world’s largest cathedral, climbed an active volcano, and visited a city that said volcano destroyed in 79 AD.Score one point for Italy… Naples is a great city, generally experience is proving that the smaller the city the … view full post

 

Microsoft’s MSN Music

I’ve finally gotten round to adding all the photo albums from my trip to Scotland three weeks ago. Check them out here. I’ve also added some photos from yesterday’s sunrise, and some spectacular “spring” scenes – frozen cherry trees – taken in … view full post

 

Firefox on the rise

I’m seeing an increasing number of web sites and individuals advocating the switch from Internet Explorer to an alternative, modern and more secure web browser – primarily Firefox.

Time to Dump Internet Explorer – SecurityFocus
Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer – Lockergnome
Three reasons to switch web browsers today – Joel on Software
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A new Firefox theme

I started a new Firefox theme this weekend. It remains to be seen how far I’ll get. The Firefox project is approaching a milestone 1.0 release and it would be nice to have it done by then. In the meantime, check out … view full post

 

Guidelines for online rich media ads

Via Biz-Community: The IAB issues guidelines for online rich media ads

The US-based IAB has issued guidelines for rich media ads that are designed to simplify the online ad planning and buying process. Over 30 of the leading online publishers, representing 65% of total advertising inventory are or plan to be in compliance with these guidelines.

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Firebird becomes Firefox

The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser: Mozilla Firefox – … view full post