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Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches

Jonathan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:49:03 +0000

I’ve seen a few posts about Google suggestions and how there might be some very, let’s say, thought-provoking.

Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches.

This is great.

from the comments:

Meanwhile, “what are” is a hilarious one to try, as it produced as it’s first suggestion(!) the phrase “What are these strawberries doing on my nipples i need them for the fruit salad”

That. Is. Awesome.

Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!

Jonathan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:12:21 +0000

Interesting collection of brushes for Photoshop

Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!.

OpenOfficeMouse

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:47:51 +0000

via: Daring Fireball09-11-06 3:46 PM John Gruber

The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke.

Galleries With This Photo on Flickr

Jonathan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:27:31 +0000

Galleries With This Photo on Flickr.

Galleries is a new feature of Flickr and one of my photos has been chosen for a gallery. Fun.

ignore the code: Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes

Jonathan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:52 +0000

October 31, 2008

Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes

«My paper’s due tomorrow, but my PC won’t print, what do I do now?»

«What do you mean, it won’t print? What happened?»

«Well, I clicked on print, but nothing came out the printer.»

«Did you get an error message?»

«Yeah, I got an error message.»

«Well, what did it say?»

«How should I know?»

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had this conversation multiple times.

via ignore the code: Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes.

10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine

Jonathan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:50:28 +0000

Effective User Testing Doesn’t Have To Be Extensive

Jakob Nielsen’s study on the ideal number of test subjects in usability tests found that tests with just five users would reveal about 85% of all problems with your website, whereas 15 users would find pretty much all problems.

Source: Jakob Nielsen’s AlertBox

via 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine.

Photoshop CS4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

Jonathan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:24:16 +0000

Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | Photoshop CS4 | Text Effect on a Portrait | Layers Magazine.

Old-School Marketing No Longer Working? Blame Canada | Copyblogger

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:23:05 +0000

Old-School Marketing No Longer Working? Blame Canada | Copyblogger.

Great article. Happy Canada Day!

New in Camera HDRI

Jonathan — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:23:13 +0000

This is very interesting.

Adorama Learning Center – The Pentax K-7: The era of in-camera High Dynamic Range Imaging has arrived .

Coffee Cup – Logos – Creattica

Jonathan — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:39:17 +0000

Very cool coffee cup logo

Coffee Cup – Logos – Creattica.