Author: Noivad
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UI Missteps: Form over Function
Don’t get me wrong. The people at MacUpdate usually do a great job of managing and taking user feedback. But even with their careful curation of Mac & iOS apps that receive updates (sometimes numbering close to 100 OS X apps alone in one day), things slip through the cracks. I wasted about 5 minutes trying to…
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Bistro turns the tables on Yelp, offers discounts to customers for 1-star reviews
I have heard several small business owners complain about Yelp’s “sleazy” and “crooked” (their words) tactics. I think that while ruled legal, Yelp advertising itself as a fair and honest ratings is deceptive. It is clearly a conflict of interest that they control the order of listings, and take money for advertising and placing advertisers higher in…
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Is it *really* such a bad idea to use a password twice?
Yup. Password reuse is essentially saying either “I’m too lazy to protect this data,” and/or “the information on this account is not important enough to take the time to use a good single-use password.” Laziness and convenience is what people who will exploit you and your data rely on to make their job easier and…
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Almost Everything I learned about Teamwork and Leadership, I Learned in Clan Lord
I’ve been threatening to write this post for about a year. I had this sitting on the back-burner for a month and asked for comments from another player also in the IT Admin field. So, without further ado… For the unwashed, Clan Lord is an archaic, sorely out-of-date Multi-player Online Role-playing Game (MORPG) that has been…
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Remote Control OS X (Link)
Rather than write this article, I noticed that this article has been updated and is still relevant. Remote OS X Daily: Control a Mac with Screen Sharing in OS X I would add that, if you want to be able to do this away from outside the network the Mac is located, you need to have administrative…
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Graphic Design Language Consistency
While I have often said that a lot of UI changes are simply eye candy, and add nothing important other than “bling” to a design, not all UI changes fall into that category. However, looking back, I noticed my posts have beat around this huge unaddressed important distinction of UI design that pretty much no…
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Selling SoHo Printers: “It’s Airprint, Stupid”
Finding a current table of color laser Airprint capable multi-function printers (MFP) with prices and features is impossible. [If you are an Android user, just replace every reference of “Airprint” to “Cloud Print” since it is essentially a copy of Airprint, and would help Android users to find printers too] So, gathering info quickly to…
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This Week, Last Week, Next Week…
Excuse any typos, but this is a seat of my pants post… I finished up one job last week, which led to time to refactor this proof of concept class while revising other work. Exterior demoes of these proofs get reactions akin to saying, “Wow!” But I feel like Oz, saying “pay no attention to the duct…
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Developing Web Sites on OS X Faster & Easier
Tools I use that have made setting up a web development environment on the latest versions of OS X faster & easier than ever.