How to improve Free Software usability

Posted on 8/3/2008 by Ben

Matthew Paul Thomas is back with an article about why Free Software has poor usability, with concrete suggestions for how to solve the problems. Thomas is an interaction designer who works for Canonical. You might remember his list of 69 usability problems in Ubuntu 5.04.

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Get Your War On: The Animated Series

Posted on 8/1/2008 by Ben

The first episode of an animated version of webcomic Get Your War On is out and it looks like it will be great.

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Links for July 31st

Posted on 7/31/2008 by Ben
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Links for July 30th

Posted on 7/30/2008 by Ben
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Dr. Horrible

Posted on 7/19/2008 by Ben

I really enjoyed Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s super-villain musical starring Neil Patrick Harris. Penny Arcade points out that it all goes away tomorrow ahead of the DVD release, so make sure you watch it now.

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Dependency Injection and Unit Testing

Posted on 7/12/2008 by Ben

The Google Testing Blog has one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen of why dependency injection is useful. This got me thinking about how people handle this stuff in dynamic language land and I found Dependency Injection in Ruby and Needle, a DI container for Ruby.

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Rhapsody MP3 Store

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Ben

Rhapsody has launched a DRM-free MP3 store. This is a big improvement. Previously, their MP3s were locked in a ghetto in the Windows desktop software. Prices seem to be $1 per album higher than Amazon, even for Rhapsody subscribers.

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Barack Obama is a PATRIOTIC AMERICAN

Posted on 6/19/2008 by Ben

In case you had any qualms about voting for BARACK OBAMA.

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Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo

Posted on 5/5/2008 by Ben

мебелимебелиYay! I guess this means Flickr will компютри втора употребаnot be merged with Windows Live Photo Gallery.

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Free Nine Inch Nails Album

Posted on 5/5/2008 by Ben

Nine Inch Nails are giving away their new album, The Slip, completely free.

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Album of the Week

Posted on 4/28/2008 by Ben

The album of last week was Flight of the Conchords.

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released

Posted on 4/24/2008 by Ben

The latest release of Ubuntu Linux has hit the download servers. One of the more exciting aspects of this release is that it contains a new installer that allows Windows users to install inside their Windows hard drive partition without repartitioning, so you can try it out with no risk to your existing system. Christer Edwards has some nice upgrade instructions.

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Links for April 23rd

Posted on 4/23/2008 by Ben
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Links for April 16th

Posted on 4/16/2008 by Ben
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Album of the Week

Posted on 4/12/2008 by Ben

The album of the week is The Breeders’ Mountain Battles.

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