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( I remember: thedevilneversleeps.com, Flash Flog aggregator here !)
After pin pointing web design mistakes of 2005 he's back with a bang now ! His latest commentory is on Blogs. I'm sure this list makes lot of sense, specially when bloggers ignore personalised feeling with their netizen community, which is very essential. Since, blogs are object centered.
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Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes.
Summary:
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.
Usability Issues:
1. No Author Biographies.
2. No Author Photo.
3. Nondescript Posting Titles.
4. Links Don't Say Where They Go.
5. Classic Hits are Buried.
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation.
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency.
8. Mixing Topics.
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss.
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service.
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If you consider me as a blogger, I fall under all the categories ;) !
Live link.
Red Rose:
Latest addition to my rainy day balcony photography !
Shot on 2nd week of October.
Process:
- Auto focus.
- Flash free.
- Compact picture enhancement in Flower mode.
yeh dil maange doublesix-double-zero ;)Finally, I bow to Nokia 6600 !
Though it's a overhauled model I feel this is byfar the sexiest & macho design from Nokia.
wide-screen experience is superior. Comes with an additional 64MB Memory card. Though I planned to pickup any Nokia Nseries phones like N90, somehow my mind stuck to this cute piece.
Though I'm not influenced by the 6600 TV commercial Ad. Instincts remembered: "Insaan phone letha hai baatein karne keliye" Ad ;)
[ Don't comment: successful scapegoat of strategic marketing ! ]
It's belived to be powerful arsenal of smart phones era.Powered by symbian OS. The smartphone series evolution started with the release of the Nokia 7650 which offered a new type of design in the slider and a revolutionary amount of applications and functions for the day of it’s release, amongst others MMS and a built-in camera. As a result, this phone became very popular, and several operators used it for deploying the first MMS advertisements. The main buyers were businessmen and people who were attracted by style and price.
Standard kit: - 6600 Handset
- Charger
- Manual
- Hands-free
- CD with software
- 64MB MMC memory card.
Every cell phone is supposed to have a unique factory-set electronic serial number (ESN) and telephone number (MIN). A cloned cell phone is one that has been reprogrammed to transmit the ESN and MIN belonging to another (legitimate) cell phone. Unscrupulous people can obtain valid ESN/MIN combinations by illegally monitoring the radio wave transmissions from the cell phones of legitimate subscribers. After cloning, both the legitimate and the fraudulent cell phones have the same ESN/MIN combination and cellular systems cannot distinguish the cloned cell phone from the legitimate one. The legitimate phone user then gets billed for the cloned phone's calls. Call your carrier if you think you have been a victim of cloning fraud. The fraudster can make calls on your behalf or send messages etc and it would be easy to tarnish your reputation in this manner. For cell phone cloning fraud, the cellular equipment manufacturing industry has deployed authentication systems that have proven to be a very effective countermeasure to cloning, however it still does happen.
There is another interesting method. There are chips available which can be set into a cell phone, you can then gift this cell phone to an unsuspecting victim, provided you know him. Perhaps you can make him win a contest of some sort. The cell phone now becomes your bug, something that the user is sure to carry around with him. You activate it by simply calling this fellow from a preset number. What happens is that he get no inkling that a call is being received, the phone automatically picks it u, there is no change in the display or any indication that the cell phone is now transmitting everything to the person at the other end.
So if you are paranoid enough, it makes sense to not accept such gifts from people. If you don’t have any security threat then chances are no ones going to gift you one either! Of course to counter the threat of electronic eavesdropping there are counter measures available such as encryption. Again its not for the usual people, wont be cost effective that way, but you can always find more details. It is an entirely different topic per se and would make material for another article. So keep coming back!
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Our own usability 'maddy' ; precisely one who is addicted to Vitamin 'U ( usability ) Jakob Nielsen has listed this year's list of worst design mistakes. It's better to listen to his words...rather than trying something new and fascinating like 'Flash'. Because he hates it ! ;)
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 found by Jakob Nielsen !
1. Legibility Problems
2. Non-Standard Links
3. Flash
4. Content That's Not Written for the Web
5. Bad Search 6. Browser Incompatibility
7. Cumbersome Forms
8. No Contact Information or Other Company Info
9. Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths
10. Inadequate Photo Enlargement
Catch him live here !
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds,"What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. .
See what you think:
1) "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
Rebecca - age 8
2) When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth."
Billy - age 4
3) "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
Karl - age 5
4) "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
Chrissy - age 6
5) "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
Terri - age 4
6) Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
Danny - age 7
7) "Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that.They look gross when they kiss"
Emily - age 8
8) "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen,"
Bobby - age 7
9) "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"
Nikka - age 6
10) "There are two kinds of love. Our love. God's love. But God makes both kinds of them."
Jenny - age 8
11) "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."
Noelle - age 7
12) "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."
Tommy - age 6
13) "During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore,"
Cindy - age 8
14) "My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."
Clare - age 6
15) Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Elaine-age 5
16) "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsome than Robert Redford."
Chris - age 7
17) "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
Mary Ann - age 4
18) "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old > clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
Lauren - age 4
19) "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."
Karen - age 7
20) "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."
Mark - age 6
21) "You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget,"
Jessica - age 8
21) And the final one - Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."
via [ Kumud Pandey ]
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