Category Archives: Useability

Bye Bye Remember The Milk…

Posted on May 13, 2010 by ccnet

Today, after being a Remember the Milk customer for years, I gave up on them and closed my account.   I paid up for a year of Toodledo Pro.  I really loved RTM at one point.  The user interface was … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in GTD, Technology, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Web Browser Themes…Not Sure I Get It

Posted on May 6, 2010 by ccnet

I’ve been playing with the newest Chrome beta on my Mac for the past day or two and it is becoming an intriguing replacement for Safari (Firefox feels very sluggish to me).  The one thing I was just playing with … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Design, Technology, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Gruber On: the Office 2011 for Mac “Save” Button

Posted on March 30, 2010 by ccnet

Over at Daring Fireball Gruber notes: Icon for the Save button is still a floppy disk, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t sold a machine with a floppy drive for a decade. So what do you suggest they put there … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Apple, Design, General, Mac, Technology, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Pimlical calendar software from Pimlico Software

Posted on December 29, 2009 by ccnet

I was reading a review of BusyCal for the Mac and Wolf Rentzsch reminded me of one of the features I absolutely *loved* from the DateBk Palm application from Pimlico: floating events.   They were what they sound like…events that … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in General, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Evernote Mac client sorely lacking

Posted on October 18, 2008 by ccnet

I’ve been using Evernote for awhile now.  The Windows client is pretty good.  The editor supports ordered/unordered lists, font types, color, etc.   All of the expected things in a rich text editor are there. At the same time the Mac … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in General, Mac, Programming, Technology, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Google Calendar and external iCal feeds – DOA

Posted on September 29, 2008 by ccnet

I’ve been mucking around with adding my Remember the Milk lists as iCal event feeds to my Google Calendar account.  The idea of having tasks with due dates show up like “local” GCal events is great but it doesn’t work … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Annoyances, Apple, GTD, General, Technology, Useability | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Phone menu navigation

Posted on July 8, 2008 by ccnet

You hear the whispers coming out of co-workers, hushed tones with odd inflections repeating words like ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘customer service’. Is this some weird conversation with a loved one? Then it dawns on you that your co-worker is busy navigating … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Design, General, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Google Calendar…um…features?

Posted on March 27, 2008 by ccnet

While messing with a Google Apps setup I have created for my volunteer group I found some interesting things about entering events. Not sure they’re features given the circumstances but they’re interesting nonetheless. First of all, I selected 1pm to … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Annoyances, Technology, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Making a website? Choose a good color scheme!

Posted on November 25, 2007 by ccnet

Updated!!! I’ll keep updating this page as I find more tools since this seems to be one of the more popular pages on this blog. Thanks, Jason One thing programmers don’t generally know is good design techniques. You can usually … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Design, General, Java, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

LandsEnd.com useability issue

Posted on November 4, 2007 by ccnet

The other night I was ordering some clothing (a new coat and some slip-on moc shoes if you must know) from Lands End and had a fantastic experience…for most of it anyhow. I have to say that they have done … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Design, General, Useability, User Interface | Tagged , , | 2 Comments