Blind Touch-Screen Launcher
This is an attempt to sketch-out my concept for a blind/speech recognition UI for mobile phones.
Finding Um
…in one of the greatest moments of interviewing in public radio Bob Edwards, as the thought is forming in your head, Bob Edwards says to the guy, “You never say um?” I have emailed NPR, Bob Edwards, and lobbied the This American Life staff trying to find this 20-year-old interview.
15 Torrent Freak approved proxies/VPNs by cost, speed, access to iPlayer/London Olympics and more!
I profiled 15 providers from Torrent Freak’s Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? by cost (monthly and yearly), max clients, speed, exit node countries (for the iPlayer in Britain, and Netflix/Hulu in the US and any high privacy/shady countries like Sweden or Romania), tunneling tech (OpenVPN and socks/OpenSSH because PPTP/L2TP/IPsec+PSK is a given) their [...]
DataWrangler -thank you god.
I don’t know whether to be astounded, ecstatic, or upset (this should have happened by now : )
Interarchy: the ultimate file transfer utility
I am writing this because the Mac world seems to be totally blind to the best file transfer utility on the planet: Interarchy.
I accuse cognitive scientists of speculating about internal processes with respect to which they have no appropriate means of observation. Cognitive science is often only premature neurology.Skinner
He won the argument with Chomsky, but he lost his personal war on cognitive psychology. Which is a good thing.
Movie Player Mockup *Updated*
Update July 14th 2011, Additional commentary on my old design and changes to other UI’s since I first wrote this post. A brain storming session on the Moz usability list was sparked off by Firefox’s need for a better generic movie player UI . After doing some best of breed analysis of current solutions and [...]
The Problem with YSlow and Page Speed
Web developers use two basic types of metrics to measure page speed: literal load time and “best practice” score cards like Google Page Speed and Yahoo’s YSlow. The tools for both metrics mislead developers as to what they should spend their time and effort on.
Protected: The Coming CLI War
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Testing Assumptions about the Tor Network
As part of an independent study course at the University of Washington, I spent time trying to improve the usability of Tor. Tor is a network that forwards internet traffic between several computers to who the user that is accessing the site is and what sites a specific user is accessing. My ideas on how to improve [...]