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Kooky, quirky Safari

Friday, 22 June 2007  

I tried the brand new Safari browser for Windows last week. While I’m still a little puzzled why Apple would even bother entering the Windows market, I’ve noticed a couple of things which I don’t particularly care for:

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Stupid defaults in web forms

Monday, 21 May 2007  

One of the more important decisions in software application design is that user choices in forms should have default values, where possible, and those default values should be the most likely ones that most users would want chosen.

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Email pet peeves

Wednesday, 9 May 2007  

Peggy Duncan over at Fastpitch writes about email pet peeves that cause stress in the workplace. If you found our post on email etiquette a little disdainful, have a read of Peggy’s article.


Email subject lines are important

Monday, 16 April 2007  

It’s not that I’m the only person in the world who is busy. We’re all busy. But far too often, I get an email which struggles to get my attention due to the subject line being either a single short word, too ambiguous, irrelevant or simply missing.

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Don’t waste my bandwidth

Sunday, 25 March 2007  

Knucklehead newsletter

I got spammed recently by some knuckleheads who curiously must have thought I’d somehow be interested in their cheesy and unsolicited “newsletter”. The email consisted of a whopping 415Kb embedded JPEG image and a short text intro:

“It’s good to be back on deck and I hope your Christmas and New Year was restful. I have enclosed the latest newsletter for you to have a look at. Please let me know if anything is of interest.”

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