Tag archive 'User Interface'

Terminal web browsing

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-05

Who would have thought that browsing the web froma terminal would be any good? I certanly would not have beeived it. Not until I was forced to do so myself.

I have a little project going on–more on that later–and that is forcing me to use the terminal. Only the terminal. So without my usual graphical user interface I was forced to improvise and learned how to use Lynx. As it turns out, text-only based web browsing is actually super!

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Reply to “Making the World Wide Web an Easier Place to Talk About”

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-28

To sum up Tim Walton’s article Making the World Wide Web an Easier Place to Talk About in three words: don’t use www.

The irony is that “World Wide Web” can be said in just three syllables, yet the abbreviation WWW encounters a tongue-twisting nine! How can any abbreviation take three times the effort to speak than the very words it is an abbreviation of‽ “duh-bull-you duh-bull-you duh-bull-you”.

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Corporate Live.com Search web design

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-23

The new Live.com Search home page is way too “corporate blue”. The cliché blue symbolises stability and openness, but it is not doing it for the new front page. The design is actually great! It does not, however, work very well because Microsoft has overdone it and made it plain dull and boring. It would have worked well for some sort of clinic, as the design is very calming!

Boring blue design, from © Microsoft.

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Concept: TimeKonqueror

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-05-22

This is a concept for a graphical version control management add-on for KDE’s file managers Konqueror and Dolphin. The concept is inspired by Time Machine for Finder in Mac OS 10.5.

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