ISSN 1496-3221
May 13, 2000
Got a need for 3D software? The new owners of the top-rung Strata products are just giving it away. Why on earth would you offer 22MB worth of gnarly downloadable three-dee fun for free? It’s a marketing hook to get you stuck on their new “virtual reality portal” called, what else? 3D.com Opening up the … More
May 12, 2000
Garret and Array are back, covering the New Mexico fires.
May 12, 2000
You would think that adding links to a site would be an easy thing to understand. But based on sites that I am sure we have all experienced, this just isn’t the case. Somewhere along the way back from the birth of the web, a lot of folks have either forgotten or never learned how … More
May 12, 2000
I am sure that many people would agree that 90% of designers only use 10% of the functionality built into Photoshop. Sure, it’s comforting to know it’s there, but really, when was the last time you used the Channel Mixer in monochrome mode, or applied an interpolated De-interlace filter? If you spend most of your … More
May 11, 2000
Mike sent me a link to this entertaining visual documentation of a pile of rotting meat. Well, it was entertaining to me. If you’re not vegetarian yet, viewing this may do the trick. Another guy I work with suggested that we do our own experiment: Date: 05/11/2000 1:49 PMReceived: 05/11/2000 1:53 PMFrom: Reech Sixto, email … More
May 10, 2000
Alright kids, it’s time for another question. What are acceptable and understandable names for the shopping cart mechanism used on e-commerce enabled sites. Besides shopping cart and shopping basket, I’ve run across a shopping bag at the Canadian online bookmonger, Chapters.ca, but what else is out there? Have you ever had a client insist on … More
May 10, 2000
Please have your coupons ready. I wish I had stumbled across the Best Practices for Designing Shopping Cart and Checkout Interfaces white paper on dack.com before slogging through user-testing on a couple of iterations of my company’s site. I can’t say that I agree with everything mentioned in this piece, but some key points triggered … More
May 10, 2000
The once mighty battle cry of the Quark Killer has been rather faint of late. It’s been a constant battle with uncooperative service bureaus, complaints of a marginally complete feature set, and a hard-headed Quark user base with heels firmly dug into the desktop mud. However, Adobe is slowly, but surely gaining users of InDesign, … More
May 9, 2000
A beta release of Mac OS X may end up being available at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Lucky Mac geeks lifting the hood on this release are more than likely going to find several revisions to the Aqua interface including a possible return to more familiar widgets and controls. “One of the most-criticized … More
May 9, 2000
Kodak goes back to the future and figures if they rerelease basically the same technology enough times, people may actually start using it. When will imaging companies learn that people just don’t want to look at their photos on their television. Even though a Kodak spokesperson says: “…the PC is not where most people want … More