Archive for the 'techy' Category

What You Get Is What You See: Results-Oriented UI

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen announced today that WYSIWYG is dead. In a Monday morning moment, I thought for a second that the lover of white backgrounds, black text and blue underlined links had decided to banish this pink monstrosity from the interweb Fear not, he is actually talking about user interfaces! The article is very [...]

AdWords API problems

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

I finally started using the Google AdWords API this week. Generally, this allows you to do anything you do by logging on to the Adwords site programmatically. However, it seems there are some things you can only do through the UI at the moment and even a few things you can more easily do through [...]

Cá ba mhaith leat dul inniu?

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Via Rob Burke, Microsoft made Windows XP available as Gaeilge (in Irish) on Tuesday. So now you can press the Tosaigh button instead of Start and rith rather than run your programs! This is the result of a 12 month effort. I’d rather Microsoft had put more effort into making their programs less buggy and [...]

Colourful USB Keys

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

If you are looking for one of those cute tiny and incredibly handy USB memory drives, I can highly recommend Shop4Memory. They have a big selection in many colours (very important!). The prices are good and delivery is fast and free within Ireland and the UK. The best bit is the great customer service. I [...]