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Filed under: Further Reading

Now this is a good idea.

Put your insert key to work – Lifehacker

Reprogramming your Insert key to copy and append information to the clipboard.  What other hacks similar in spirit to this exist out there?

Filed under: Tips n' Tricks

Holy Cow!

Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker » (Update: link is broken. Dr. Troublemaker strikes again!) Update: The link is back up.

I found this huge del.icio.us cloud via this ask.metafilter post. A better example of inefficient tagging I have yet to see.

According to one of the respondents, Dr. Troublemaker has 2441 unique tags, with 1400 of them representing only one bookmark. Browsing through them myself, I saw that many of the tags are variants of each other, which complicates the problem.

Filed under: Usability and HCI

Scrybe

Scrybe – the online productivity suite I’m dying to try – Download Squad

I was scanning Digg when a reference to Scrybe caught my eye.  Featuring a ZUI as well as some other impressive user interfaces, Scrybe looks like it really tries to keep context at the top of its list of priorities.

This reminded me of a presentation by Microsoft’s Cathy Marshall, wherein she mentioned that you can’t search for something you don’t remember you have.  When you’ve forgotten something, you’ve also likely forgotten the context of the information.

Filed under: Design, Usability and HCI

New Conductors Speed Global Flows of Money – washingtonpost.com

New Conductors Speed Global Flows of Money – washingtonpost.com

Molly sent me this article detailing how cellular phones are being used to transfer money. This passage in particular caught my attention:

…handsets that cost as little as $30 are enabling struggling nations to leapfrog past the need for land-line phones and ATMs.

Mobile phones are allowing a new economic infrastructure to evolve in some of the places whose citizens need it most.

Filed under: Mobility

Give me back my GOOGLE™

Give me back my GOOGLE™

I just found this on Lifehacker, and it looks like a useful tool for streamlining searches.  It basically weeds out sites like ebay and other resellers that typically cloud search results with noise.  True, this can be done manually with Google, but for those looking for a shortcut this might be worthwhile.

Filed under: Tips n' Tricks

A New Home

Because my previous webhost had a horrible user interface and poor security policies (among other drawbacks), I opted not to continue using their services. So welcome to the new blog, [almost] the same as the old blog. New name, expanded focus, and I hope to make more frequent updates. The biggest problem I face right now is my job: being a dedicated SAS programmer doesn’t give me much time to research attractive technology trends.

Filed under: Meta