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Agreed. It would make much more sense rearranged like this http://oi51.tinypic.com/15hzdcj.jpg

I started using Fireworks since CS4. At first I didn't understand how it was different than say Photoshop or Illustrator for web design. Then as soon as I started mocking and designing UIs for actual web applications, or applications, Fireworks showed it's strength. (Heck I sometimes use it to make logos, http://www.ptizo.com/media/preview/brand/ptizo-logo-alpha.pn...)

The number one reason I prefer Fireworks it's that the file itself can be viewed as normal PNG (and still retain editable features). The second is the mix of vector/pixel objects (all you want from vectors but as pixels).

If you have to design for the web I would recommend you to use Fireworks over Photoshop as your design tool (please stop with the shadows and gradient madness, they make the page rendering slow and scrolling crappy).

But people are forgetting the hover text that Bing returns (see 1st result).For the search "circumference of the earth" http://oi55.tinypic.com/2jfx8ur.jpg

Compare that with Google's results https://img.skitch.com/20110211-r3jmccgi1ejs24p1hbdnu69fwm.j... (courtesy of xentronium). For this query Bing's results are far better that Google's (they actually specify circumference at equator and poles, alerting you that it's not the same; Google doesn't).

Also if you add (in meters|in miles) to the query, you get similar results to Google's.

Hi there. How about pludily.com? (I'm a holder of a few domain names for apps I decided not to pursue, they're short and I find them elegant.)

Or add some details like keywords for your app. Maybe I have something more suited.

Have you found a new similar community to join? In the sense a new community with fresh "ideals" you are thinking of joining or already did. It's been more then 6 months I've been trying to find a good place (I need a way to keep track of trends).

I think I've assimilated all HN could give me. And good luck!

If you're stack on the Windows platform, it may be a true pain to build using other technologies. Major OSS tools can be more easily mantained on Unix-like systems (RoR, Python, even PHP it's a mess on Windows).

I'm talking about production environments. I do myself use WinXP for development, because I'm forced by other tools I must use; but my current production env is Ubuntu.

Also comparing Jobs to da Vinci and Jefferson, well personally I see them in different levels (both on recognition and impact of their actions).

I strongly disagree. There is information about you that you can't control: such as friends that share photos of you; NSA, CIA, etc, data about you; government records; etc.

The one I am concerned is not my friend sharing a photo, is the data corporations and governments capture about me (with or without me knowing about). It was said here also, if you can make an infringement of the law, never know about it, and be held guilty by data you didn't even know to exist (the example being the import of foreign cheese in the US, even for personal use).

There is an old Albanian movie called 14 vjeç dhëndër (14 years old groom) which shows also the privacy keeping problems they had in small villages.

There are some secrets that everyone, even in a family, keeps. People can't know if you don't tell them, but with the advent of the computerized era, information escapes even if you don't tell it.

Re paywalls: that's why I use also http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. For some papers it has a PDF link on the bottom of the page. As a personal preference, I like it more than Scholar (scholar is more full-text search driven, while academic is more filtered).

Am I the only one who is thrilled more about the depth capturing and projection than the UI applications?

Since I don't own a holographic projector I just posted some images and videos of recent relevant Kinect hacks on my blog http://www.pmura.com/blog/2010/11/the-underestimated-power-o...

The most relevant I found http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/euvin_naidoo_on_investing_...

Though I don't know if is about angel investing, the one OP watched.

In the eyes of a lot of non tech-savvy people (like my parents, or lots of facebook users), Zuckenberg (or the guy who invented Facebook) is more known than Jobs (the guy who [co-]invented Apple). Despite how those actions weight.

Because he can change your perception of the message a lot more narrating it than by writing it down (which is something cold). Or he's just lazy to type it.

You can always use it with Yahoo!'s s4 (released yesterday). http://wiki.s4.io/Manual/S4Overview

You may want to know that input isn't filtered: http://idealogue.heroku.com/ideas/54

Look page source Line 70 to 94.

Adding to the others.

You should understand the difference between Web design and UI/UX design: it's like Monet/van Gogh versus Da Vinci.

In UIs you're crafting like an "engineer", while with general website design (eg. most of the cases done by graphic designers) you're painting. Either way practice is required (if you're a programmer you know this, you can't learn programming only by reading books :).

Also if I may, I would recommend "Semiology of Graphics" by Jacques Bertin, it's a reference to information design and visualization (if you plan to design apps, you may want to give it a look). http://www.amazon.com/Semiology-Graphics-Diagrams-Networks-M...

You're probably right. In the second presentation[1], Mayer (Google's VP of Search prod. and UX) pointed out some problems users who search might experience: 1 of them being the serial presentation of information, and not a full set of information at once (eg. Google presenting you only 1 result at a time, or Wikipedia 1 fact at a time).

[1] thank jeromec: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9900486

Have you considered Zotero? (oss addon for Firefox)

So, you write a paper on a recent physics experiment. You publish it on Science magazine, or your Lab. Both of them have carefully designed templates (science mag specializes in this). Creativity involved.

You just compiled your CLI program, and you're testing it's output. You're staring at specialized typefaces and an optimized screen. Creativity involved (you aren't a good programmer if you lack creativity).

The other side: you're a store manager, programmer manager, or X manager, you have to make a fast presentation of your key notes. You start PowerPoint, and select some template. (Creativity Involved?)

Something like this would be quite useful with a real-time source/feed of images/video. Or connect remotely to your home camera and spy on your neighborhood.

Seriously though, there should exist an implementation like this (at least from security firms or NSA/CIA).

> IF they go missing, I have a way to find them.

You're just hoping that the battery of the device doesn't dry, or that the bad guys don't toss it away.

Actually parents could buy the app, because it seems interesting; and then forget it and leave it there to run for years.

I mean from a marketing standpoint you can sell it, and sell lots of it, but if you educate your users by saying that "by installing this app you increase the risk that bad people locate your children more easily, and then possibly kidnap them", I would doubt they'll buy it.

I don't worry about the privacy in the first place.

What I'd really worry about is what happens when some backdoor captures and sends your child most frequent location to someone else? (now imagine that someone else as a network of pedophiles or organ traders)

This is an iPhone app, I think it could be solved by using a specialized separate device (not connected to any other computer (including the Internet)).

You can also do it directly from useragent, or jQuery.browser (maybe with $.browser.version). (other js frameworks should have it under utils)

The one you linked, is a design of a blog. (That problem has already been solved, and it's a memorized pattern.)

Try designing the entire UX of a web application, from idea (how about we do X ...) to every single case, directly in HTML and CSS. Designing for GUIs it's more difficult when you don't have direct visual feedback.

(I do this from time to time, but only for very simple things.)

> [...] Depends on what is meant by "necessary". Baroque art achieves a particular effect by virtue of its ornamentation. [...]

Except the fact that you're presenting information (being it a webapp, or just a restaurant site).

I'm on Firefox 3.6.8/Win, and I have the same problem. It's more a problem with the browser itself (FF4 with retained layers should have no problems I guess).

This also happens when you abuse with shadows (text or boxes/divs).

edit: @joshuacc, since I can't reply directly to your comment: It probably depends on the machine resources. I'm on a 5y old notebook.

Firefox is a single-process application, and won't let you start another one (at least sharing the same user data; you can run a different build, but you can't share/use the same user data).

I tried the addon (FF4 only), you don't really have to organize them all the time (at least from my experience).

If you have 1 tab open, and then click on a link, and open it in a new tab, it will automatically be grouped together with the "parent" tab.

One personal problem I found, it's just that I need to see the tabs all the time, while in this way the other groups are hidden: to see them with this addon you have to click the addon icon (navigation toolbar) or access it by shortcut.