URLs Sinistras: 2006/06

CheckOut

O Google lançou um outro serviço interessante:
É o Google Checkout.

Veja um vídeo de como funciona nO Velho.

Contextual Design

Orkut + Joga.com + FireFox = ?

Orkut ganha banner, mas resiste a anúncios publicitários.

Efêmera Ciência

"The genius of the scientific method, however, is that it accepts no permanent solution. Skepticism is its solvent, for every theory is imperfect. Scientific facts are meaningful precisely because they are ephemeral, because a new observation, a more honest observation, can always alter them."

Achado da Cecília meira.

Rivaldo Barboza

Traços e troços é o nome do Blog que o Designer e Ilustrador Rivaldo Barbosa colocou recentemente no ar.

Agora usando o WordPress.

Sud Mennucci vs. Rio de Janeiro

A seducao dos inocentes.

Mais batata frita e futebol

Apenas complementando o que já havia citado antes.

OSD

On Screen Design:
Comparando o que se coloca na tela da TV dos dois lados do Atlântico.

Ted Nelson

Theodor Nelson bate na web, nos "tekkies" e na artificialidade das metáforas que utilizamos na realidade computacional.

Thinking

Wireframes

IA Summit: Wireframes.
Wireframes: A comparison of purposes, process, and products.
WireFrames em xHTML.
Templates & Stencils for Visio & Omnigraffle.
Communicating Design.
WireFrames @ Boxes and Arrows.
Wire Frames: also known as schematics, page architecture or blueprints.

Practical Usability Testing

Practical Usability Testing.

Color filter

Colorblind Web Page Filter.
GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert any full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s percieved contrast.

Research taxonomy

Interessante Paper sobre metodologias de pesquisa:

In How to select an appropriate research method in ergonomic studies? by Jarvinen is very insightful paper describing research methods that could be valuable in my work about HCI/CSCW.

Busca por Simplicidade

Em busca da Simplicidade.

Ornamentos

Gramática de Ornamentos, parte 1.
Gramática de Ornamentos, parte 2.

I have a bad feeling about this

When only the glib win, we all lose.

Vista no Mac

Windows Vista Beta Running on a PPC Mac.

Vasando

Power Mac G5’s leak like broken down cars.

PhotoShop e Ilustrações

The Photoshop Experiment.

Geeks

Como NÃO liderar geeks.

How to negotiate your salary

Como negociar o seu salário?

Standardista Table Sorting

Standardista Table Sorting.

Awareness and Interruptions

Controlling Interruptions:
Awareness Displays and Social Motivation for Coordination.

Eyetracking

Eyetracking: Worth The Expense?

Peleja

The battle between usability and user-experience.

Lei de Moore que nada...

Que lei de Moore que nada...
Cerca de 5% dos desktops precisam de conserto em 12 meses.

Guns

Axl Rose é preso acusado de morder perna de segurança de hotel.

Desktop 3D

BumpTop™ Prototype:
Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen.

Clonagem

"...o mundo publicitário se nutre de uma verdadeira indústria de clones de músicas."

do Faustao

Sorteio da Globo na Copa é investigado.

by Aaron Spelling

Fogo no mar

Sealand in Fire.

Videos

Blue Beetle's PSA:
Blue Beetle and Booster send out a message against smoking... sort of.
Cubic Tragedy.
D`beatbox.
Hey clip.
Ryan vs Dorkman.
maplestory.
StarWars Kid.
Xbox360 DVD Firmware Hacked:
The Xbox 360 DVD Firmware has been hacked, allowing to boot backups of games..
Os Trapalhões - Teresinha.
Os Trapalhões - Orquestra atrapalhada.
Os Trapalhões - As Minas do Rei Salomão.

RIP

Aaron Spelling @ IMDB.
Aaron Spelling @ Wikipedia.

Don’t alter the widths or shapes or letters without cause

Não altere a largura ou a forma das letras sem um motivo.

AI Visual Vocabulary

A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design.
Disponível tb em Português.

The Future of the Internet

O Futuro da Internet.

Google e seus mistérios

“Secret” Google Products: Google LH2, Google RS2, Google SSD, Mobile Download Console and M Scrapbook.

Em Slow Motion

Curiosa compilação de vídeos em câmera lenta mostrando projéteis atravessando vários objetos.

RSS

RSS Tutorial.

Vivo ou Morto?

Ever wanted to know if a famous person was Dead or Alive?

Synonym Rings

“Synonym rings and authority files are simple tools that can bridge the gap between natural language and complex controlled vocabularies (taxonomies and thesauri) quite nicely.”

Vascaino?

Nem morto!

Trabalho Infantil

Play Bumps: Bring Clean Water to Rural Africcan Communities.

Sud Menucci

A cidade mais antenada do pais.

N2H4

Hidrazina é o nome do combustível para foguetes espaciais.

3 Reis.

Switch?

800 or 1024?

WikiMapia

"Pois é, o WikiMapia é um mashup entre o Wikipedia e o GoogleMap (na verdade, a impressão que dá é que ele usa a base de dados do GoogleEarth…)"
Via Pilger.

Plz...

"Diga que é algum experimento de SEO".

cognitive

Guitar Player

Light Pick.

Box.Net como Drive Virtual

Montando o mesmo drive virtual no PC e no Mac.

Question Mark

Grande questionamento...

International Philosophy

Filosofia Alemã versus Filosofia Grega.
By Monty Python.

Ethical hacking

A university in Scotland has applied to start teaching students how to hack computers.

Google OS

Why Google OS Already Exists?

Fine Typography

Fine Typography for the Web.

Elma Chips e a Copa

O Nemo Nox citou hj algo que o Mario AV já havia se aprofundado meses antes.

Live CD

Comparison of BSD Live CDs.

Opera

Lançado o Opera 9
It has several new developer features.
Via OsNews.

Lamentável

Galvão Bueno narra jogo de mundo paralelo.

Uma imagem...

Cala a boca, Galvão.
Via HajaCoração.

Washington Post

Adapting the "old media" to the new environment of the web.

Aonde a vaca vai...

Acompanhando os usuários.

Grande questionamento...

Porque pessoas inteligentes defendem idéias ruins?

No meio da Rua...

Policial Militar é atropelada.

By Linda

CSS para Designers.

Transformers

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon?

Como se fosse uma cebola...

As camadas do Design: A camada do look and feel.

Worn

Academics of Worn.

Sun e Ajax

Sun joins AJAX standards groups.

Contraditório?

Funcionários da Microsoft preferem usar o Google.

Geek Speak

Google versionado para Klingon.

Pérolas aos porcos

"...eu já escrevi muito mais asneiras junto".

Shark Atack

Surfista é morto em ataque de tubarão em Olinda.

Apenas...

Just Use It!

Comediantes predilétos

F1 Brasileira

Copersucar: A escuderia de Fórmula 1 brasileira.

How to

Write a Master's Thesis in Computer Science.

Fala sério...

Bussunda morreu...

Half-Life Guides

The Half-Life Saga Story Guide.
Half-Life 2: Episode One @ Wikipedia.

MacUser

Hora de mudar (para um Mac)?

O que eles não gostam...

Os problemas de usabilidade que os usuários mais odeiam.

Banner Blindness

Cegueira de Banner.

Think Map

Visual Thesaurus.

Vindo de Froripa mano...

O que mata é a inguinorânça.

De mal a pior

Incidente com avião da Varig.

Softs para Mac

iStumbler: Monitora a rede Wireless.
Widgets by Google: Blogger, GMail e Google History.
Right Click Upload to Flickr.
Flickr: Uploading Tools.
ChronoSync Mac backup utility backs up your data, emails you if something goes wrong and archives files you've deleted along with tons of other neat backup features.
Desktop Manager implement a easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X.
Visual Paradigm for UML: is a powerful, cross-platform and yet the most easy-to-use visual UML modeling and CASE tool.
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT a full-featured business process modeler seriously supporting latest OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
EarthDesk Replaces your static desktop picture with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon, and city illumination.
TaskTime4: Tentando fazer o TimeSheat algo menos chato.
TimeLog a iCal integrated timer solution with an interface very similar to iTunes.
Piano Tuner: A 12-note chromatic scale strobe tuner application that utilizes audio input devices such as built-in microphone, line-in and iSight.
Lesson Planner Advanced: makes planning, preparing and delivering lessons in any subject child’s play.
Process: Brainstorm, organize, schedule, plan, coordinate, collaborate.
Synk: Software that synchronizes the contents of two directories, or backs up one directory to another.
Cyberduck: FTP and SFTP Browser for Mac OS X.
NetNewsWire, agregador de Feeds.
xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X developed to streamline the workflow of user experience professionals and social scientists.
Alguns editores de Código/Texto para Mac.
InerTrak is a time-tracking tool for designers, contract workers, lawyers, or anyone else who works on multiple projects on an hourly basis.
On The Job: Time Tracking Software.
Ecto Blogging Software (v 2.1): desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows.
Inspiration 8: Brainstorming tool shines inside and outside the classroom.
TextMate: O "editor perdido"!
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.
AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress.
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecesary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim some of all that space it takes up.