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Guestbook beauty

24 May, 2024 - 106 words
Eva Decker has an incredible guestbook. Not only does it look wonderful but she's also

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OpenID usability

05 October, 2008 - 68 words
People complain a lot that users don’t understand about OpenID logins booting them to another website to authenticate. Don’t Google already do this with Blogger and Yahoo with Flickr? That is to say: don’t tens of millions of people do this regularly already? I mean, what’s the big difference? I know there are other usability complaints/problems, but this one sounds eerily like a ...

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Symbian to go open source

24 June, 2008 - 483 words
Nokia have said that once they own the controlling stake (or all) of Symbian, they’ll make it open source within two years under the Eclipse license (see

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Vista sidebar is annoying

28 January, 2008 - 191 words
The Windows Vista sidebar has two display methods: Always there – in the mode it blocks up a couple of inches at the right-hand edge of the screen and all your applications be...

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del.icio.us greasemonkey script

30 January, 2006 - 137 words
A couple of weeks ago, Tom Coates was moaning about a UI aspect of del.icio.us: I do not understand why del.icio.us’ submission form doesn’t limit the amount of characters that you can input into it. Instead, ...

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Firefox 1.5 is out

30 November, 2005 - 338 words
Except, no British version yet. Pfah. Where are those translators when you need them? Anyway, Firefox 1.5 (note the move to the .com for the main Firefox page from the old .org) is, er, OK. Certainly from an end-user point of view it doesn’t justify skipping out Firefox 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4. It may well now

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614

11 June, 2003 - 130 words
Incidentally, Leigh’s intention for adding other voacabularies to the FAM2 seems pretty much the same as mine did: I think for the first iteration I’ll simply throw away properties the FOAF-a-Matic doesn’t understand. Then progressively expand the breadth of FOAF data th...

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