Refenestration Daily.
Incremental Find is now available for Mozilla, at least as an XPI. With incremental find, the Find function works as-you-type character-by-character.
If you want to install the XPI, then you should visit the webpage. But, if you want to download the XPI, just right-click on the XPI link and choose “Save As”.
Via the WebWord mailing list, I discovered the article “Bringing KDE Closer to Joe User’s Desktop”. It offers many suggestions on improving KDE’s UI, and I found it to be fascinating. For instance:
As for the “Configure Desktop...” itself, it should have been called “Desktop Properties” or “Desktop Settings”. “Configure” is a verb. Configure implies that the user knows how to “configure” something. Believe me, for a Unix newcomer, “configure” is a dreadful verb. It is a scary command. It might sound funny to you, but never underestimate the psychology of the user. UI is all about psychology. It is all about shapes, colors, pictures, words... Picking the right elements each time is the right way of creating a comfortable desktop environment. […]
It reminds me in some ways of this usability report on GNOME by the Sun GNOME Human Computer Interaction staff. And, man, Linux sure is pretty. I’ll have to give that another try once I have lesser things to worry about.
If you’re using a recent build of Mozilla and it’s been hanging all the time for you (100% CPU usage), you’re probably running into bug 146884 — essentially, http pipelining will hang Mozilla in short order. I’ve voted for it.
Yahoo has relaunched with a new look. The headline of the C|Net article says “Yahoo relaunches with streamlined look”, but it looks anything but streamlined to me.
(Link from Media Bistro)
My brother Adrian passed along this one. HumanClock.com features the current time, but the display is made up of people holding signs with that minute’s time. So, that’s right — there’re 60 * 24 pictures in their database of people holding up signs. Actually, there’re more pictures than that, since they insert new pics into the rotation from time to time.
Be sure to also check out the FAQ. My favorite part is how the guy beats-around-the-bush in trying to explain the significance of “4:20”.
