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Usability Hits Mainstream

Usability has come a long way since 1983 (the year I was born and the year this photo of Bill Gates was taken). The first Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference was held in 1982 and some of the major contributions to the field were published a decade later (e.g. Nielsen’s Usability Engineering and Dumas’s A Practical [...]


The Best Free Anti-Virus: AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Free Edition

Do you have an expired copy of Norton or McAfee Anti-Virus? Get rid of them and download AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Free Edition immediately! Virus protection is the most important program you can have installed on a Windows computer. New viruses are created all the time, and it is crucial to have virus protection and to [...]


eBooks: Almost Ready for Prime-Time

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that I am now convinced that the days of books printed on paper are numbered. This new eBook Reader from iRex Technologies (warning: PDF link) looks almost like something I would buy. I would certainly rather use it to read eBooks than a Microsoft Origami device. Was [...]


Google Pack and Video Store

Attention Windows XP users: with a few swift clicks you can now download most of the software that you will ever need, straight from Google. But, don’t just click “Download Google Pack”. Instead, you should click Add or remove software and check everything EXCEPT Norton AntiVirus 2005, RealPlayer, and Ad-Aware. Of course, you probably already [...]