How can that help out the record industry?

Now Apple is adding some hardware in their machines so that we can’t play bought content wherever we want. This is a whole lot of crap and upsets me a lot.

From pmooney.net

We have strong indicators that http://www.dagerot.com is written by a man (91%).

(via DomBlog.de)

06:20 GO!
The lazy fox jumps over the brown dog!
06 24!

(This with qwerty! It only took me like 3,5 minutes to write that complex phrace above, this gotta be really good after a while….) (I never found the ‘:’ on my swedish dvorak layout….

Swedish dvorak layout for os x here
Read about Dvorak here

UPDATE 2008-11-17 08:01

For a reference I tested my current writing speed over at TyperA and this was the result:

With QWERT:

Your score: 226 keys per minute ~ 45 words per minute

Language/mode: en
Ranking: Not bad!
Comparison: 55% of 32121 registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 45% have a lower or equal result

With DVORAK:

Your score: 16 keys per minute ~ 3 words per minute
Language/mode: en
Ranking: Try again!
Comparison: 99% of 32121 registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 1% have a lower or equal result.

You typed: From the fury of the norsemen deli us O Lor

Mistakes: deli(deliver), us(us,)

But this game is good, requires only a few minutes attention a day: http://www.volvooceanracegame.org
My boat is “In search for glory”

The $$viewtemplate is a rather amazing thing. It’s mainly a form that wraps around a view when the user accesses the view, but the usage can be very flexible. Here are three tips & tricks I’ve been using over the years:

• Call it “$$viewtemplate for HTML” and have many views having the alias “HTML”. This usually reduces the numbers of $$viewtemplate forms in the database.
• Have a “$$viewtemplate for JSON” (or similar name) which wraps around a view that is delivering JSON data. The $$viewtemplate can then terminate that stupid empty record that is started at the end of the last line in the view.
• In the $$viewtemplate you can have computed fields that uses the @viewtitle function if you are using the ‘alias system’ in the first point. This makes it possible to do some customization; headings for example.

Version    Geekbench 2.0.19
Platform    Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Operating System    Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Build 9F33)
Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz
Model    MacBook Pro (Early 2008)
Memory    4.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Prototyping

This speach was about the benefits of using prototyping early in the process. It covered different prototyping tools covering everything from post-it to HTML-code via white board and Adobe Flex. The speach was a bit short and atleast I missed some touch with real cases. Is it just me that finds it harder to leave a huge offer on a pre-study involving an interactive HTML compared to when the pre-study was delivered on pictures or pure text for example.

stopdesigningforpaper.com

This was hopefully an eye-opener for many in the audience. The speaker showed us examples on how we still, 15 years later, very often design web-pages as we would have done for a paper media. He showed examples on how a design grows and smalls depending on the device. He didn’t covered the need to find information that has the right weight for the upper right corner, something that’s important to people with two monitors but that’s enough important for laptop users to not be shown or atleast be shown at the end, off-screen, of the page. There’s a site for this ‘movement’ aswell: stopdesigningforpaper.com with a linked in youtube video with the speach in english.

Society vs citizen

In my country we have a lot of insurances covered in the taxes. For example when I need to stay home from work because of my or my kids sickness. The organisation behind these money transfers are enourmos. Actuallt they are so complex and huge that no ones really can say how much the administration costs vs how much money is transfered. Really scary. The speach gave us an insightful view over this complexity for example that there are 12 different steps in the ‘wizard’ we use to report a sick child. He covered the focus on mental mind and showed the problem in giving the user a good mental mind when he sees the form for reporting sickness compared to the enourmos paragraph that coveres the rules around this insurance.

I’m happy that I took the time to visit this event and would like to say Thank You to all involved, especially Logica, Tieto Enator, Antrop and InUse.

UPDATE:

Usability: the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

And yes, this post was mainly to see if anyone of my readers (hi mom!) uses spotify.com (no mom, I know you don’t).