I’ve been a bit of an HP fanboy for a while. I have an 8 year old HP laser printer that I love, a 4 year old HP pavilion that still runs great, an HP Media Smart Home Server, and this year I bought my wife an HP laptop, and a new colour laser jet printer…so… Continue reading HP Doesn’t Know What It Wants To Be
Category: Internet
Zite for iPad is Awesome
Since I bought my iPad a couple of weeks ago, there are two apps I use constantly. One is Flipboard, which turns your Twitter and Facebook feeds into a social magazine, which is pretty cool, but it separates Twitter from Facebook, and while it can use Google reader feeds, they are buggy at best. The… Continue reading Zite for iPad is Awesome
My iPad 2 review
The iPad has been out for a year now, and while I enjoyed playing with one when it first came out, I didn’t pick one up. I’m what’s traditionally known as an “early adopter”. I built my first PVR in 2003. I bought a TiVo on eBay and hacked it to work in Canada in… Continue reading My iPad 2 review
Bad Usability: College of Nurses of Ontario
My mom asked me to help her register with the College of Nurses of Ontario, it was a pretty clean website, and looked like a decent user experience, so I figured why not. Well, after struggling through their website, I decided to whip off a letter to them to expresss my displeasure in the usability… Continue reading Bad Usability: College of Nurses of Ontario
Customized or Scalable?
During my day job I’m confronted on an hourly basis with requests for small improvements that people want to make to the website in order to be more personal. Add “My Account Rep”, only show them content they own, put their name on the page, remember what they last searched, show them the most popular… Continue reading Customized or Scalable?
Design Trends I Love – Pseudo 3D
There’s a new design meme that’s making the rounds. Websites that have some dimensionality to them. I first really noticed it on Jonathan Snook’s Snook.ca, but recently SlashFilm added some of this, and my new favourite site Mail Chimp has some too. It adds much needed depth to the web, and is neat because it’s… Continue reading Design Trends I Love – Pseudo 3D
Search Engine Optimization is Bunk
I get about 7 or 8 email spam a week to my domain accounts promising that so-and-so can make my search rankings much higher for only $xxxx. Of course this stuff is so much snake oil it’s not even funny. I can help you improve your Search Engine ranking with 10 easy tips. Best of… Continue reading Search Engine Optimization is Bunk
A plea from the family computer guy
Dear (aunt, uncle, or family friend); This week I got a call from (family member) who said they hadn’t had email in a while. I went through the usual troubleshooting stuff with them, and it came down to the fact that email was timing out. I went over there, and 45 minutes later I found… Continue reading A plea from the family computer guy
How to get a job in web design
I like hiring people right out of school. For one thing it brings a great energy to a team to have someone young with new ideas. For another, it’s a chance to shape someone who hasn’t picked up years of bad habits (and who may impart some good habits on me and my team). I… Continue reading How to get a job in web design
Top 10 WordPress Plugins – Updated
For this week’s Web Design Wednesday segment, I’m going to revisit a post I wrote about back in August, but a lot of stuff has changed in the seven months since I first wrote it. For one thing I’m about 100 times more comfortable in WordPress than I was seven months ago. For another I’ve… Continue reading Top 10 WordPress Plugins – Updated