http://www.onclipevent.com/enterframe/ onClipEvent | form follows function(); en-us nav@onclipevent.com Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:07:22 +0500 http://enterframe.blogspot.com/2006/12/theory-of-user-motivation-applying.html I'm working on a new article, you can check it on my new blog http://www.onclipevent.com/enterframe/index.html So I'm moving. No, not cities, but blogs. I've created a new blog on Blogger and have a few posts up there already. Apart from this virtual move, I'm also moving jobs, and will be keeping you updated on my new blog... Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:07:22 +0500 http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000604.html Microsoft dispatches anthropologists into the field to study small businesses. Here's why...... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000603.html Somebody had recently emailed me if there are openings at Digité and quite accidentally (don't ask me how) I've lost the email and am unable to reply to it. Well, the answer actually is, yes. We are looking for good interaction designers, entry level or otherwise. If you're interested, just drop a line at nnair [ a t ] digite [ d o t ] com... [PS: Current opening are only at our India Development Center, sorry for missing out... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000602.html Is Acrylic going to be PhotoShop killer from M$? Acrylic is based on Expression, the graphics application Microsoft acquired with its 2003 purchase of Hong Kong company Creature House. You can download an evaluation version here...... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000601.html A neat NY Times article by David Pogueon how you can save time by configuring various cool tech tools like speech recognizers, etc. The only problem is that people do not have enough time to do the configuring Too bad I don't have enough time to read the whole article, so I'll just file it here for later... ;) [NY Times Registration Required]... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000600.html In a bid to get Java developers writing Flash applications, Macromedia is throwing its weight behind the Eclipse programming system.... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000599.html Nolan K. Bushnell, the creator of the Pong video game and founder of the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain, is innovating again. He is about to open a restaurant where the servers will have novel attributes: triple redundancy and backup batteries... [NY TImes Registration Required] Interestingly I had the same idea of going on in my mind about a year or so ago. Guess an idea is worth nothing unless you execute it ;)... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000598.html An interesting flash tool that compares the search results of Google and Yahoo for a particular term...... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000597.html The expanse of white space at the bottom of Google's main Web page, possibly the most valuable undeveloped real estate in cyberspace. Not anymore... Couple of articles on Google Fusion: 1. NY Times 2. eWeek... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000596.html An in-progress collection of AJAX patterns being collected and discovered by Michael Mahemoff... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000595.html I.B.M. is increasingly betting that it can build a big business around open-source software. The latest step in that strategy is the purchase of Gluecode Software, an open-source start-up... [Via NY Times - Free registration Required]... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000594.html In March, the Federal Communications Commission took a significant step toward breaking an industry deadlock over setting a single standard for a new wireless technology called ultrawideband, or UWB... “While traditional radio technologies have transmitted and received analog signals only on specific frequencies, UWB uses inexpensive computing power to send short radio pulses across much of the radio spectrum. Because it does not use a single frequency, UWB offers several advantages, including the capacity to send high volumes of information... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000593.html Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. Designers and managers have discussed “standards” as a way to solve this problem but this standards content (often contained only in the memories of designers) has never existed in a commonly accessible format... Read the case study...... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000592.html On Monday, Microsoft announced 'Metro', a new document management technology that will be a part of its Longhorn OS. Xerox has also announced support for Metro, which is an open format that allows users to share, print and archive paginated-layout documents and used in document workflows.... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000591.html Formal reports are the most common way of documenting usability studies, but informal reports are faster to produce and are often a better choice.[from useit.com]... http://www.onclipevent.com/archives/enterframe/000590.html Asynchronous JavaScript and XML combine to enable powerful new capabilities for browser-based UIs...