This is the Trackpad preference pane on the new MacBooks:
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The bottom right is a video loop demonstrating the various gestures. When you click options on the left, the video changes to show just the selected gesture. Even though the new trackpad gestures are fairly intuitive, Apple went the extra mile to train users in a [...]
I’ve written about why modal dialogs are almost always a bad idea before. 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.
Here’s a suggestion: don’t cover what I’m trying to read with a modal dialog. [...]
…is data loss. I bet you thought I was going to say “zombie apocalypse”.
Probably drew the brain a bit big for an SEO consultant. Feel free to steal this image.
Usually I encourage people not to be afraid of blogging, because you can recover from any blog-related mistake — except unrecoverable data loss. The worst thing [...]
Paul Boutin tells us to “kill our blogs” in Wired because the market (i.e. the first page of Google results) has been overrun by professional blogs like Engadget, HuffPo, and Boutin’s employer, Valleywag. Supposedly we don’t have a chance against their budgets, staff, and connections.
He’s right. It would be stupid to start a “gadget” blog [...]
What’s great about the new MacBooks (and MacBookPros):
Totally awesome new “slits” for the breathing “sleep” light and IR ports. 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, but it does click down when you press it. The feeling was [...]
I saw a commercial for HP’s new multi-touch computer. It looked cool, so I tried to look it up on HP.com. Instead I was treated to a marketing disaster of biblical proportions.
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 [...]