Snap is a Big Distraction in Site Usability

January 3rd, 2006 On the persistent insistence of my niece I finally decided to put up my picture on the blog. However I didn't go the full mile.

March 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.

August 24th, 2005 Freespire is a new free Linux distribution from Linspire. It is Linspire with all proprietary components and trademarks removed.

March 3rd, 2008 Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs.

January 3rd, 2006 I was reading an entertaining article from Jacob Neilson on weblog usability. I take this opportunity for self-assessment.

April 16th, 2006 The most annoying thing about web these days is the prevalence of Macromedia Flash based eye candies and advertisement. Not only they are an irritating visual distraction (in most cases), they also consume way too much CPU.

November 11th, 2008 LiquidPlanner is a strong online project management service, much better than BaseCamp for one. It gives you desktop project management functionality on the web and does it well.In the latest release they added three important usability features: Multi-select - allows you to select, drag-and-drop and delete multiple items at a time.

November 3rd, 2006 Google is asking for participants for their user studies. They will pay handsomely - 75 $ / hour.

December 12th, 2006 Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke's Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400% increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled by Google.

June 21st, 2005 First we had WordPress which sported tons of hidden spammer links by ingenuous use of negative CSS positioning. Then Syndic8 decided not to be left behind and joined the fray.

March 2nd, 2005 I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. With it I am progressively redesigning this blog to simplify accessing of *content*.

March 26th, 2005 I use WordPress to maintain this site. After upgrading to version 1.5 I was left with a theme which doesn't do much of what I want to do with my site.

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

March 7th, 2006 The site statistics shows a healthy upwards trend, despite lack of significant attention last month. I am really looking forward to breaking the 1 Million mark, first per month and then per day.

November 30th, 2005 Firefox 1.5 has finally been released with tons of new features. Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5: * Automated update to streamline product upgrades.