one of the reasons i was up most of the night last night. gradient meshes are fun.
sun has some pretty cool stuff going at their xml section of their site. among them is xml for palm stuff, xpointer tutorials, svg info, and a java svg generator (neatocompleato).
heheh
archives are gonna be down for a little while…
interesting new scientist article on micro-fans for computer chips. i don’t think they’re gonna be replacing regular chip cooling anytime soon, but it’s still an interesting concept.
more relevant is the jon katz /. article on bush and the net and ensuing discussion.
in my fa402 design class we’re doing a little cell phone design project. the prof, greg thomas is a nice guy, but i’m a bit disappointed i’m not gaining tons of insight in class as far as going hard-core on information/interaction design. still, it does give me an excuse to do some reading.
for purposes of the project, i’m designing a next generation phone based on a traditional form factor and with a low-resolution screen. my “killer app” for the device is that it’s bluetooth enabled.
- The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface – it’s from 1991, but that’s good. directly applicable to low res, key driven input
- assessing the usability of a ui standard – old nielsen / thovtrup paper
- univ south alabama ite 474: human computer interface notes – this took a whole semester? yikes.
- uc berkeley cs160 touchphone task analysis and interface sketches – this is more impressive
- uc berkeley cs160 touchphone homepage – nice… should definitely look at everything else
- web techniques 2001/02 – lo and behold, some usability articles
- sfgate: consumers pay price for internet phone convenience – some wap issues
- useit: mobile phones: europe’s next minitel? – jakob tackles phones, and makes a rather good argument against mobile phones – if the wireless web is the future (hopefully wap will die a painful death by then)
- useit: wap field study findings – tests corroborate that wap does indeed suck
- norman nielsen wap usability report – has some good links at the bottom of the page
- uidesign.net whitepaper, solving the context problem for wireless design – designing personas for use cases: “lifestyle snapshots”. uidesign.net is a nice site, never been here before
- lotus unified messaging – “An advanced message management solution for all media types, providing access to any message, anytime, anywhere, from any device.” is a good idea
- escribe wireless and mobile technology articles – links of some good articles.
- /. how much didigtal tool convergence is possible? – very interesting comments. but since it’s archived, it’s difficult to sort the good from the bad.
other hci resources: asktog, useit, designing usable hci, epss infosite hci links, hci design guidelines, apple macintosh hci guidelines (os8 html, os8 pdf, original pdf), ieee chi tutorial, usable web
i’m using my blog to organize my thoughts a lot more now that my computer is indisposed. i think i definitely will have to try to finish my cm/km app soon to help categorize some of this spew. art center graphic design faculty, art center digital media faculty
hey, if anyone knows where i can get cheap small (2GB?) new hard drives, or really cheap old pc systems/terminals (486’s, old pentiums) please let me know. i’m sure they’re floating around.
to read: why iptables rocks, author unknown, exponential assembly
nothing like booting up in the morning to a blue screen… corrupt software hive of my registry. grrr. turns out that the 1.6gb drive i got from my friend has tons of bad blocks. serves me right for not doing a surface scan before, right? my software hive is currently 14MB, my last backup is 5MB. that’s a lot a stuff missing.
fun registry stuff:
- mskb Q238359: differences between manual and fast repair in windows 2000
- secrets of the NT registry – winmag, july 1998
- windows nt server 4 unleashed, ch18: understanding the registry
- Managing the Windows 2000 Registry (oreilly homepage)
- ntfaq registry section
- applying .reg files in silent mode
to read later: msdnmag, w2k registry: latest features and apis.
for those who like it plain