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Ah. One line to explain them all

I was reading the article ‘What is next in webdesign’ on informationarchitects.jp- and there was one line- that explains UX and what UX is about to webdesigners- in a single sentence:
User Experience is in the interface, not in the surface.
Read more: http://informationarchitects.jp/whats-next-in-web-design/#ixzz0cPWNGgLy
Also. They have (I just found out copy/pasting the text) a very useful script [...]

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My pet frustration

One of my pet peeves is the fact that- sometimes people put a ‘next’ link- where a ‘previous’ link would make more sense in context of browsing though a blog.
You know how it works- you are reading through a blog, get to the bottom- and there, you have a link called ‘next’. OK, fair [...]

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Maggy Sort

It might not be the most efficient, but it’s by far- the most entertaining one. It seems to be a  persistent random seeded bubble sort

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Chromium on OS X

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This is actually one of the more funnier error messages I came across running Chrome (Chromium) on OS X.
When trying to open an HTML file locally. I get this popup saying that Chromium doesn’t support HTML.
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The first image posted on the web…ever.

And probably not what you expected. It dates back to 1992, after a CERN organized festival called the Hardronic Festival. Tim Berners-Lee asked Silvano de Gennaro to scan some pictures of the CERN girls to publish on this thing he invented called the World Wide Web.
And the rest is history.

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How email is delivered on a Mac

I thought this was cute enough to merit a post.

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Michael Jackson’s forgotten patent

Yes, The King of pop also had a Patent
Abstract
A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. The shoes have a specially designed heel slot which [...]

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Google Quick Search Box, or Google’s Quicksilver.

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Google released the Google Quick Search Box or QSB for short. It is in most aspects the same as products like Launchy for the PC and ofcourse, Quicksilver for the Apple.
You open it by pressing CTRL-Space at the same time, which is nice- it didnt’ hyjack my launchy combination.
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Astalavista Hacked and Torn apart

Earlier today- Altavista, website for ’security professionals’ (read: mostly scriptkiddies) Has been targeted and hacked, well- not only were they hacked, all exploits and details are made public on their site. http://astalavista.com and they were torn apart. I suspect it will not remain up for long so i’ve included the  log of the hack at the [...]

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Google Squared vs Socrata

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Google just launched another entry in their Labs section called Google Squared. Google describes its function as
“constructs a table of facts about any search category you specify”

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify.

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