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By Bruce van der Kooij on November 1, 2011
Today Google rolled out the new design for Google Reader. Apart from the design, the first thing I noticed was that the keyboard hotkey to like an item has been removed (‘L’). In fact, the entire Google Reader sharing functionality has been dropped in favor of some rudimentary Google+ integration (read what Alex from the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged technology, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on April 19, 2011
Get to your favorite sites quickly – even if you don’t remember the URLs. Type your term into the location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) and the autocomplete function will include possible matches from your browsing history, bookmarked sites and open tabs. The Awesome Bar learns as you use it—over time, it adapts to your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged pure awesome, technology, the little things, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
For some reason when laying out almost any kind of imaginary of equal sizes in a grid fashion: magic happens. It’s weird, but it’s true. I’ll give some examples in future blog posts.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged statement, the little things, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
I’m just sharing the rage here. Now that I’ve picked up blogging again I’ve once again become annoyed with how this TinyMCE editor captures the <Tab> key thereby overriding Firefox’s tab navigation. What makes it even weirder is that it doesn’t even indent anything when using <Tab>. I’ll let this post serve a dual purpose [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged technology, todo, usability, wordpress |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
I was scrolling through a blogpost on the OKCupid blog when I noticed this annoying popout that appeared when you browsed into the comment section. It takes up a lot of space and most importantly it distracts from reading the commentary. It’s just too much in-your-face. Here’s what it looks like: The ID for the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged please kill me now, take back the web, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
I’m trying to keep my mind occupied by just watching as much “stuff” as possible, right now that means watching TED talks (or talks linked from the TED website). The first talk I’ve watched so far is Seth Godin’s “This Is Broken” talk at the Gel conference back in 2006. In it Seth talks about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on May 13, 2010
Since November 2009 I’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 with a bunch of online friends and while the game is not without its problems, I have absolutely fallen in love with its party and matchmaking system. It’s great to be able to just hook up with a bunch of friends and not have to concern [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged entertainment, idea, usability, video games |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 9, 2009
I got a bit annoyed with NoScript last week due to the continous white-listing while randomly surfing the web, so I reluctingly decided to pick the dangerous Allow Scripts Globally option. However, this has introduced me to an annoyance far greater and that is: websites overriding copy/paste functionalty using JavaScript. Yes, this is actually possible [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged please kill me now, take back the web, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 30, 2009
Apart from the fact that CNN’s video site just isn’t very interesting (for now I won’t go into reasons why), it also has a few minor issues that combined make for a genuine usability disaster. ————————————————————————————————————- Problem #1: When a video is done playing, all player functionality is disabled and after a few seconds the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged media, usability, websites |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 11, 2009
I’ve decided I want to get more effective and start settings goals and then follow through on realizing them. No more messing about! One of the steps includes getting more organized and start managing my tasks. To make it more comfortable to create tasks I’ve started using the GNOME Do plugin for Remember the Milk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged personal, the little things, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on June 8, 2009
It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it. TODO: I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, WordPress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bugs, technology, the little things, usability, wordpress |
By Bruce van der Kooij on June 8, 2009
It’s quite cool how WordPress remembers what mode (Visual versus HTML) you were previously in and the size of the editor when writing a blog post . TODO: Expand this post
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged modes, technology, the little things, usability |