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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I’m melting!

It’s so hot (humid) in London today. [view the source of that page - server-side comments, ppl!]. So hot that the water in a glass I’ve refilled countless times already, evaporates faster than I can drink it. My packet of Malteasers melted into a chocolate/honeycomb hybrid … view full post

Switched over to Thunderbird

I’ve finally, somewhat successfully, migrated my e-mail from Eudora across into Thunderbird, Mozilla’s just released e-mail client. I lost a couple of e-mails in the process, thanks to a few 6 years-old, virus-infected e-mails or something which made the import process a little more time-consuming than it should be. It seems like a nice client so … view full post

Mozilla Thunderbird feature Wishlist

Adding to this list over time….

• Integrated calendar – see the Lightning Project at MozillaWiki
• Search for and remove duplicate e-mails UPDATE: There are Extensions available.
• Integration with popular virus scanners List of (in)compatible antivirus programs
• When dragging an e-mail from one mailbox folder into another in the folder list, and the destination mailbox is a hidden subfolder

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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

Mozilla downloads have surged

Via mozillaZine:

“Wired News is reporting that Mozilla downloads have surged following advice from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to avoid Internet Explorer for security reasons. Download numbers approximately doubled in the days following the US-CERT recommendation, which was

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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