Archive for the ‘usability’ Category

Shorter ConFigures posts of a sort at Twitter

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

I've been writing about tech and CM mostly behind the company firewall at my job for a while now, particularly this last year since I've been writing for the company newsletter.  However, I've also built up a body of short notes at my ConFigures account on Twitter. I got a ...

Almost 2 Months on the Palm Pre Smartphone

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I picked up a Palm Pre the first day it was available, June 6.  I'm very happy with it overall. It works very well as a phone (both sound quality and override of other apps), and I love the easy flow and integration between the different apps and underlying software.  ...

Fielded wikis and LibraryThing, a year and a half later

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

I've had some experience working with fielded wikis since I wrote disgruntledly about LibraryThing's implementation of them in October 2007.  I knew at the time of their potential for being able to extract info for other purposes, but I had come into using wikis with a great appreciation for ...

Magellan Roadmate 1212 GPS Review

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I passed on my old Magellan Maestro 3225 (reviewed last year) not long ago to one of my sisters when I got exasperated with its inability to properly find my work location (I started a new job last May) or the library (we got a new downtown center in 2007), ...

Not the LibraryThing I signed up for

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and willingness to work with libraries, and above-average books reviews from LT members, and book-based discussions (easy to find and see updates on discussions of ...