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Friday, January 17, 2003
A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
I was reading a comment at
LinuxJournal.com about Safari and the poster was dissapointed that Apple seemingly had no regard for "Fitt's Law" when they designed the buttons for their new browser. I had never heard about Fitt's Law, so I googled it and found
this page at
at AskTog.com. It is a quiz that covers many UI concepts that I had not heard stated so clearly before. It answers questions such as where the easiest places to click on a screen are and why Macintosh sub-menus are easier to use than Windows sub-menus. Very fascinating.
7:06:50 PM 
Apple silences iTunes P2P software
Apple Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that turned its iTunes music player into peer-to-peer music-sharing software. The plug-in, called iCommune, allowed iTunes users to browse the music libraries of other Macintoshes over a network and stream or download music from them. [
C|Net]
This sounded like super cool software that delivered that features that Jobs demonstrated but didn't deliver at MWNY 2002. We tried it, but couldn't get it to work.
4:27:32 PM
Photoshop Workshop Information
Plan on attending the Photoshop for Digital Photography workshop on Jan 29, Feb 5 and Feb 12? Here's some information for ya.
4:14:23 PM
Macromedia Acquires Presedia
Macromedia just announced the acquisition of Presedia, a leading provider of online presentation and e-learning solutions for sales, marketing, corporate communications, and online training. If you follow this link you can get a flavor of exactly what Presedia enables people to create. It's one of an emerging line of products for Information Convenience --- products that enable everyone, not just professional developers and designers, to create compelling online experiences and content. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio]
Macromedia has long had an interest in providing online learning solutions. I'm not sure if the future of this will provide easier to use products, or simply more powerful products.
11:20:28 AM
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