These Things Matter to Me
Monday, May 05, 2008
Google Reader lets you add notes now!
Maybe my friends and I just have too high of an opinion of how amusing our commentary is, but we've long-awaited the ability to leave notes on our Google Reader Shared Items. And now, perhaps responding to services like FriendFeed where you can comment on anything, Google Reader lets you leaves notes!
Here's how it looks:
Here's how it looks:
Labels: design, feature, Google Reader, interface, notes, RSS, sharing
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Preview screencast of Wordpress 2.5's gallery feature
Wordpress's Matt Mullenweg previews a very cool feature of the soon-to-be-released Wordpress, small photo galleries in a post without painful manual layout. (And yes, there are plenty of shots of the cool new dashboard.)
Labels: blogging, interface, ma.tt, preview, screencast, social software, video, wordpress, wordpress 2.5
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Some VMware Server 2.0 Beta screenshots
...wanted to upload a couple of screenshots from VMware Server 2.0. As I mentioned yesterday, VMware Server 2.0 beta update 1 only has a web-gui.
As you can see below, in a "read-only" way, this doesn't interfere too much. When you actually start to interact with the page, it gets a little more annoying, and you can feel the chug of the thinking and the rendering. I'll repeat that I appreciate that it isn't a draining Java applet doing all of this on the client side. But it's still pretty slow and painful. Aside from performance, the interface and navigation is inconsistent and confusing. I'll try to post about that tomorrow.
Now below you can see the web-ui get even more inconvenient when you want "console." By default, when you select a console view of a guest, you get only a partial view of it, ensconced in scrolly bars. You do have a fullscreen option, but nothing in between, let alone the "fit to screen" option available in the VMWare Server 1.x console client.
To be continued!
As you can see below, in a "read-only" way, this doesn't interfere too much. When you actually start to interact with the page, it gets a little more annoying, and you can feel the chug of the thinking and the rendering. I'll repeat that I appreciate that it isn't a draining Java applet doing all of this on the client side. But it's still pretty slow and painful. Aside from performance, the interface and navigation is inconsistent and confusing. I'll try to post about that tomorrow.
Now below you can see the web-ui get even more inconvenient when you want "console." By default, when you select a console view of a guest, you get only a partial view of it, ensconced in scrolly bars. You do have a fullscreen option, but nothing in between, let alone the "fit to screen" option available in the VMWare Server 1.x console client.
To be continued!
Labels: beta, interface, screengrab, screenshot, software, tool, virtualization, vmware, vmware server 2, vmware server 2.0, web app
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
These Links Matter to You. Tuesday, January 23, 2007
- wowza. Five kinda serious usability issues with Microsoft Vista. ( really well written)
- very funny podcast with mostly-Mac blog Daring Fireball's John Gruber, and Panic's Cabel Sasser (this was done at Macworld, soon after The Keynote. Lotsa Steve Jobs mocking that comes from a place of love.)
- For real. IBM announced gigantor social software suite, Lotus Connections. This kinda competes with Microsoft's gigantor Sharepoint. Many companies will pay for the privilege of buying these packages, and then learn how to use them and in some cases, if to use them. (see also, Enterprisey) Drupal's Dries Buytaert suggests an IBM/ Drupal collaboration.
- wait. that deserves its own bullet-point. Enterprisey. ("...a derogatory term describing sophisticated software architecture which is claimed to be good enough (robust, flexible, etc.) for use in enterprise applications, but in fact is merely excessively complex...")
Labels: drupal, enterprisey, interface, microsoft, usability, user experience, vista
