Archive for September, 2008
CD/DVD Drives and Windows
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Why is it, after all this time, that we still have to press “OK” when we insert a disc that some program is waiting for? Can’t it just figure it out? CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives have provided notifications when a disc is inserted for at least 10 years now.
Maybe Windows isn’t the problem, and every […]
Don’t Allow Your Application to Hang
Monday, September 15th, 2008One of the more frustrating things a GUI application can do is to become unresponsive while it is doing something or waiting for something to happen.
For example, to pick on Microsoft products, both Excel and Outlook have a problem where, if they are waiting for some operation to complete (such as fetching data from a […]
Google Chrome Start Page Thumbnails
Thursday, September 4th, 2008I’ve recently been trying out Google Chrome, and so far I’m pretty impressed. The browser is fast, and loaded with conveniences.
One of these is when you create a new tab, instead of loading a web site homepage or a blank tab, it creates a page that contains a grid of thumbnails of your 9 most […]
