Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Posted on October 31, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

This is the Trackpad preference pane on the new MacBooks:

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When music is playing and I get a call, it fades the music instead of stopping abruptly.

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My favorite example of the iPhone's fit and finish is something most people won't ever encounter: the orientation of the iPhone LCD polarization, levaquin 750 mg lawsuit. Levaquin 500 mg uses, I have polarized sunglasses. I can't tilt most screens — like the one on my Canon camera — vertically or the polarization blacks out the display, levaquin 5. Buy levaquin without prescription, The iPhone orients the polarization diagonally so I can see the screen both horizontally and vertically.

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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

I've written about why modal dialogs are almost always a bad idea Buy cheap levaquin, before. Levaquin 500mg uses, Unfortunately I am not Emperor of the Internet (yet…) so annoying modals persist.

Offender: Network World

The Crime: Popping a modal for a "how can we make our site better?" survey, levaquin 250 mg. Buy cheap levofloxacin, Here's a suggestion: don't cover what I'm trying to read with a modal dialog. I can't imagine that they'd get very good data from that survey, levaquin 250. Only someone whose time is worth nothing would do a survey like that, buy cheap levaquin. Levaquin 500 mg iv, It's much better to make improvements by passively analyzing traffic data and use patterns.

Let's be real though, levaquin 500 mg sinus infection. Levaquin 5, You know this survey is about collecting marketing demographic data and not "improving the website."

Verdict: Evil and Stupid

Offender: Xerox

The Crime: Popping a modal demanding to know what country I'm coming from.

They're already guessing I'm from a U.S, cost of levaquin 500 mg. Buy cheap levaquin, IP address. Levaquin 5 mg, Why not just set the country to their "best IP guess" and let users change it if necessary. If users try to download or purchase something that requires country confirmation, levaquin 1000 mg, Levaquin 750 mg iv, then ask for it explicitly.

Verdict: Hamfisted, levaquin 750 mg sinus infection, Levofloxacin 500, but not Evil.

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The Crime: Worse than a modal, it's a pop-over ad that obscures every visit to the homepage, levaquin 500 mg cost.

Something like this could possibly be justified if shown just once and if the offer was really compelling, buy cheap levaquin. Levaquin 750 mg lawsuit, Out of morbid curiosity I clicked it and got — not a super awesome special offer from Michael Port, but a cheesy greeting card affiliate program, levaquin 500 mg iv. Levaquin 500 mg and alcohol, Look, if you've got something really great and you want people to use it, levaquin 250, make it the main thing on your homepage, within the flow of the design. Don't bash users over the head with an ad dialog that forces them to find the "close modal" button before they can see anything else.

Verdict: Inept and also evil because it uses modals as a new form of popup ad.

Posted in Design | Tagged Modal Dialogs | 1 Comment

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Posted on October 22, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

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Usually I encourage people not to be afraid of blogging, What is levaquin 750 mg used for, because you can recover from any blog-related mistake — except unrecoverable data loss. The worst thing that can possibly happen is that you spend years writing posts and then, BOOM, buy levaquin online. something goes wrong and you lose everything.

You can avoid that nightmare scenario with a solid backup strategy, azithromycin 500 mg chlamydia.

For self hosted WordPress blogs I use the excellent WordPress Database Backup Plugin. Levaquin 250 mg, It gives you an admin panel where you can set up (and this is key) automated scheduled backups that go to your email inbox. Buy levaquin online, Every day I get an email with a zip file of my blog database backup. I doubt my backup file will ever get bigger than Gmail's 10MB attachment file size limit. My ~200 posts are only 600KB when all zipped up.

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Feedburner email updates are another option. Just subscribe to email updates of your RSS feed and auto archive them, what is levaquin 500 mg prescribed for. It would be a pain to restore your blog from these emails, but at least you've got an automated secondary backstop, just in case.

What about backing up images used in posts, plugins, and custom themes? If you're self hosted, you can FTP to your sever and download the folders that contain these, buy levaquin online. (For WordPress just grab the /wp-content/ folder which contains everything you'll need). Levofloxacin 750, There is a WP plugin that backs up files, and a 3rd party blog backup service, but I haven't tried either of them, buy cheap levofloxacin. If you know what you're doing you could also set up a cron job to automatically backup your files to another server or your own computer. Levaquin 150 mg, Remember, a backup isn't a backup unless it's in a different physical location than the original.

I'm on TypePad or WordPress.com, how do I back up images? You're stuck, levaquin 750 mg dosage, unless you want to page backwards for all those posts and manually save those images. Buy levaquin online, The best thing to do is save any images you upload in a folder on your own hard drive. Levaquin 750 mg uses, Note: all reputable hosted blog providers let you export your posts and comments, but they typically don't let you easily export your images or template files. It's a nasty bit of hidden vendor lockin.

How do I back up my WordPress/MovableType installation? The good news is you don't really need to back up your WP/MT installation, levaquin 250mg. If something happens, Levaquin 500mg uses, you can always download it again.

So what's the WordPress Ninja Way? Here's my setup:
1. I use the WordPress database backup plugin to get automated emailed backups.
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3. Important: my "uploads" folder that holds uploaded images and files is explicitly excluded from Subversion. It's done this way for technical reasons that I'm to lazy to go into right now. To back up the uploads I have a recurring calendar event that reminds me to manually grab the folder via FTP.
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Resources and further reading:

WordPress Database Backup Plugin

WP plugin that backs up files

3rd party blog backup service

Havi Brooks' ongoing series about dealing with blogging hangups

Backing up your WordPress.com blog

Official WordPress documentation on backups

In the event of Zombie apocalypse, please keep blogging

My bulletproof computer backup strategy guide

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Posted on October 21, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

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Finally, time has proven that entrenched players are never invincible. Eventually their new hires care more about the paycheck than changing the world, and that's when a David comes along who doesn't play by Goliath's rules.

While I was writing this my friend Havi Brooks of Fluent Self posted another in her "Blogging Therapy" series entitled: "Why even bother when other people are doing it better?". Great stuff, timely too.

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Posted on October 18, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

What's great about the new MacBooks (and MacBookPros):

Totally awesome new "slits" for the breathing "sleep" light and IR ports. Levaquin 500 mg, Though you'd think Apple would have the technology to add a Cylon/K.I.T.T. sensor sweep motion by now.

New multi-touch trackpad. The trackpad has no button, Cost of levaquin 500 mg, but it does click down when you press it. The feeling was indistinguishable from my previous laptop button. I always turn on "tap to click" with trackpads, levaquin 5 mg, but now it's even better because of new gestures like "three finger swipe to go forward or back" in Safari and iPhoto. Buy levaquin 500 mg, Gestures kick ass. BTW, the trackpad is glass, but it doesn't feel any different, and it doesn't really look especially glossy.

Easy access for replacing hard drive, battery, and RAM. If you've read my guide to upgrading a MacBookPro hard drive you know what how scary/painful it used to be.

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Magnetic latch. The latch button on my current MacBookPro still works fine, Levaquin 500 mg sinus infection, but it shows signs of wear. It's the only part of my laptop that doesn't look brand new. It's nice not to have to find a button to stick my fingernail into.

Glass panel screen. I'm mildly torn on this one, levaquin tablets 750 mg, but the glass LCD comes down on the side of "awesome". Levaquin 500 mg, Matte (non glossy) LCDs are usually superior because the color stays true and you don't have to deal with reflections. Buy cheap levofloxacin, Previously the "glossy" LCDs just had a glossy finish on plastic, and they looked a bit rippled instead of glassy smooth. Anyway, levaquin 500 mg cost, these new LED LCDs are much brighter than the old LCDs, Levaquin 5, which mitigates the reflection problem, and with glass you get much better scratch protection. When some office jackass or toddler puts their fingers all over your screen it will be easier to clean, levofloxacin 500. Long term, Levaquin 750 mg dosage, all monitors will be glass anyway because iPhone-style multi-touch is going to be everywhere. You heard it here first.

What sucks about the new MacBooks

Bottom line, to differentiate (i.e, levaquin 500 mg. segment for maximum profit) their laptop line, Apple is crippling them in nefarious ways, levaquin 500mg uses.

No Firewire. This means no target disk mode, Levaquin 750 mg uses, though supposedly there's a migration assistant that works over USB. Lots of people are upset about it. It's just such an obvious screw to users, levaquin 750 mg iv. Levaquin 500 mg, The MacBook is such a compelling machine that it has to be crippled in a way that makes it useless to music and video pros, and IT-ish types who tend to buy Firewire hard drives. Otherwise why buy the "Pro" model?

No backlit keyboard on $1299 MacBook. Not really a big deal, Levaquin 750 mg sinus infection, but still, kind of lame. Just throw it in, levaquin 500 mg uses, you know. Levaquin 50 mg, Also, the clerk I talked to about it had no idea that the lower end MB doesn't have a backlit keyboard. It's always fun to go to a store when you know more about the products than the sales clerks, levetiracetam 1000 mg. Note: the way to indentify the lower end MacBook is that it doesn't have controls for keyboard brightness on the function keys.

They both use a new mini external monitor port, and no adapter is included. An "outrageous cash grab" according to APCMag, and I agree, levaquin 500 mg. It will cost you $50 to get a DVI adapter so you can use an external monitor. Buy levaquin without prescription, I love Apple products, but the NUMBER ONE THING I HATE ABOUT APPLE is that they are TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF LEAVING ANY MONEY ON THE TABLE. It's almost abusive how they make you re-buy iPod docks, what is levaquin 750 mg used for, cables, connectors, and accessories. They even tried this with the 1st gen iPhone audio jack. Dicks.

Pictures and a movie

Video of clicky trackpad

[caption id="attachment_888" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="front of macbook showing new light and latch"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_886" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="close up of new macbook sleep light and IR port"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_887" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="closed front of new aluminum macbook showing magnetic latch"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_890" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="new macbook aluminum magnetic latch close up"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_885" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="close up of new macbook keyboard"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_884" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="bottom of new macbook showing hard drive and battery access panel and new rubber feet"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_889" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="hand showing size of new aluminum macbook"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_892" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="new pink 4th generation ipod nano"][/caption]

Couldn't resist showing the "hot pink is the new black" nano.

What other people are saying:

Top 10 things you didn't know about the new MacBook

The T-Poll: Is the Death of MacBook FireWire an Outrage?

Interesting facts about the new MacBooks

Posted in Design | Tagged Apple, Hardware, Mac | 4 Comments

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Posted on October 11, 2008 by Nathan Bowers

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The HUGE thing HP's web designers/marketers did wrong:

HP.com's homepage makes no mention of the kick ass product they're spending tons of ad dollars on — Instead they show house ads for "Save 50%" and "Buy Inkjet Toner!" (screenshot). HP, levaquin 1000 mg, Cost of levaquin 500 mg, don't show me $500 laptops you're riding to the bottom of the ocean, show me exciting products that you might actually be able to charge a premium for.

This is a spectacular GAME OVER failure because:

They just lost everybody who couldn't remember the exact URL from TV (hp.com/touchsmart - screenshot), levaquin 250mg. This blunder is even more shocking because they could easily have featured the TouchSmart while still showing their house ads, but they didn't, levaquin 750 mg. Levaquin 250 mg, GAME OVER.

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The dreaded URL guessing game — HP.com/touch, azithromycin 500 mg chlamydia, Levaquin tablets 750 mg, /smarttouch, and /multitouch didn't work, levaquin 500 mg cost. Levaquin 150 mg, I had to specifically remember HP.com/touchsmart.

The "right" URL redirects to an unfriendly long URL — Uncool. Whenever you have a choice between making URLs easy on your Content Management System and making things easy on human customers, levaquin 5, Levaquin 500 mg price, make things easy on customers. Unfriendly URLs look menacing and they make it less likely that I'm going to cut and paste that URL so I can tell friends about it.

Levaquin 750 mg, I came to see a video of the product in action, don't make me hunt for it — When you're not showing multitouch in action, pictures of the screen just look like a standard monitor. I should automatically see video of someone interacting with it or at least a big juicy "DEMO" button.

Ugh, levaquin 750 mg dosage, Levaquin 500 mg dosage, Flash… — Flash is appropriate for video demoing the touch function, but there's no reason to build the whole site in flash, buy levaquin 500 mg, Levaquin 250, and there's no excuse for having a “skip intro”.

THE BUY NOW BUTTON IS BROKEN (!) — I clicked "buy one now" and was greeted with a bunch of 3rd party store logos (screenshot). They were clickable, levaquin 5 mg, What is levaquin 500 mg prescribed for, but I had to hover over them to find that out. Now, here's the best part: The store "purchase" links trigger Flash popups which don't work in Firefox, Safari, or even IE7. So, I've demonstrated a willingness to buy, but I can't because HP used Flash popups instead of simple Flash links!

Selling through 3rd parties on the web is dumb — Imagine that the Amazon popup had worked. After all I've been through, now I have to 1) Have or create an account somewhere else and 2) Go through all the steps that the purchase requires.

The most basic rule of usability is "DON'T MAKE ME THINK" and the HP TouchSmart campaign breaks that rule in spades. Why add a bunch of unnecessary steps between getting someone interested in your product and letting them buy that product.

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