Fast and easy - web application design tips
This past weekend, the New York Times published an interesting article.
In it, Matt Richtel and Ashlee Vance discussed the computer industry's plans to offer PCs that boot up more quickly.
Adobe CS4 is out - what's new?
Chances are that if you're a web designer or developer, you use one or more Adobe products.
Adobe's Creative Suite, which includes programs like Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver, is one of the most popular software suites known to web professionals because of this.
Usable internal software systems – just a pipedream?
Usability as a criteria for judging internal software solutions is not only overlooked but often undervalued when compared to one of its big sisters, so called ‘cost reducing features’.
With the penetration of enterprise software throughout businesses all over the world, will we as end users ever experience user friendly internal software, to the levels to which we are accustomed with the latest ‘user centered’ web applications?
Opera - most HTML code isn't standards compliant
Last week, Opera released the results of a survey conducted using its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) search engine.
The engine, which currently indexes 3.5m web pages, is designed to track "how web pages are structured."
The Web Week in Review
It was another crazy week for the global economy and there was plenty of news to follow. Here are the tech stories that caught my eye.
Larry Ellison exudes confidence about Oracle, disses cloud computing
If there's one top tech executive who isn't all that concerned about the ongoing economic meltdown, it's Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Given his personality, that's hardly surprising.
Ways to reduce comment spam
An article on Google's Webmaster Central Blog warns comment spam can contain "disturbing" images and content, which can put off consumers and other readers.
11 must-have Firefox add-ons for web developers
There are plenty of Firefox plugins that help make the day-to-day tasks of a web developer a little bit easier.
Here are 11 of my favorites....
Chrome shine wears off
According to some, Google's new browser, Chrome, is not only a threat to Internet Explorer and Firefox, but also a threat to operating systems; including, of course, Microsoft Windows.
But what do the numbers say thus far?
Share your presentations online
So you have a PDF document that you want to share with the world. Or you have a PowerPoint presentation that you want to make easily accessible to your company's stakeholders.
You could upload these documents to the web in their original form but there's no guarantee that those downloading them will have all the software required.
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
