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The Wake Blog. Read what makes us tick. Yes/No Dialogs Are Confusing Copywriting is the most important part of user interface design. Yes/No dialog boxes are a perfect example of poor UI design. The buttons on these should instead be words that verify the action. John Gruber links to a series of yes/no dialog boxes (one, two, three) written by Microsoft. He states his rule of thumb; “assume the user won’t read anything other than the buttons.” Yes or No provides no information about the action you’re about to...
via lens.blogs.nytimes.com All photographers should have this printed out and stored away in their camera bags. I know of course, this directive will probably get blatantly ignored, but this is still good to know that we have the right to take pictures.
This is what happens if LOLCats were programmers. For those with serious interesting, LOLCode is real. And as my best friend Ron pointed out, there’s only one way to check if LOLCode has gained programming...
via espn.go.com THE BALL DOESN'T BOUNCE!! Completely amazing, I have never seen this before in my life.
This last piece always stumps me!
I have been definitely enjoying my christmas present :)
Here’s the issue -When using Whispersync, staying on the correct page across multiple devices works great–until you decide to re-read your content. You read thru a book on either your Kindle and your iPhone (or another Kindle). First time thru, you stay in sync on any device. Later you decide to either re-read or restart the book. Unfortunately, the ‘Sync to Furthest Page Read’ will always be the furthest page you got to, so your furthest read page remains at either the end of the book or the furthest page you...