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“It is somewhat surprising that in spite of over 30 years of research in the areas of empirical studies of programmers (ESP) and human-computer interaction (HCI), the designs of new programming languages and debugging tools have generally not taken advantage of what has been discovered. For example, the C#, JavaScript, and Java languages use the […]

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David Lee Roth Trains to Become Paramedic
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eBay cancels bids for Virgin Mary sandwich
1969 Mustang and Shovel Man
The proof is in the pudding
1999 BMW 7-Series 750iL (eBay) — “Before I owned this car I couldn’t get a date to save my life. […]

“But that’s not all: take one look at their signature character — the deliciously anthropomorphized Luxo lamp — and you’ll agree that design looms large in this new world vision. And thanks to Edna Mode, we now we have our very own superhero to prove it.”
Summary: Design rules in The Incredibles.
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SitePoint — “A portion of a new research report I am working on includes a basic rundown on web log analytics software. During the research process I assembled this matrix of web log analysis software and wanted to make it available for review.”
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America is getting older. Consider this information:
“The population aged 65 and older is projected to double over the next three decades from 35.3 million to nearly 70 million. In 2030, people 65-plus are expected to make up 20 percent of the population. The Census Bureau projects the 65-plus population to be 39.7 million […]

BBC — “Heavy computer use could be linked to glaucoma, especially among those who are short-sighted, fear researchers.”
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Related: Vision, Reading and Computer Users

“While Christmas 2004 is expected to see record mobile phone sales, new handsets supporting advanced mobile services may not yield the additional revenues that mobile operators have set their hopes on. 85 per cent of consumers admit to being ‘too dumb’ to access or use mobile services due to increasing device complexity, finding mobile phones […]

What is a portal?
What does the future hold for portals?
How can you drive user traffic to portals?
How much traffic do portals drive?
What are the best practices for integrating content into portals?
When should you use portal technology?
What are the top portal security issues?
What tools generally compete with portals? Search engines? Blogs? Wikis?
What are the biggest problems […]

Forum Nokia Usability –”Mobile banking solutions provide users with a service that enables them to transact their financial business irrespective of time and place. […] Following basic usability guidelines, with a mobile-use context in mind is a good foundation for designing applications for mobile browsers.”
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“Koders is a search engine for source code. It enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open source repositories.”
Very useful web site. Remember folks, although Google indexes 8 billion pages, they don’t capture the invisible web very well.
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ProfiMail for Series 60 — “This is what I’ve been waiting for since I got my first Nokia 7650, a replacement for the integrated email client that comes pre-installed on Series 60 phones. For whatever reason, Nokia just hasn’t put many resources into making sure the email part of the “Inbox” works fast and reliably, […]

“The devils are its worst customers. They buy products, apply for rebates, return the purchases, then buy them back at returned-merchandise discounts. They load up on “loss leaders,” severely discounted merchandise designed to boost store traffic, then flip the goods at a profit on eBay. They slap down rock-bottom price quotes from Web sites and […]