Tag: Usability

I came across a few useful text editing shortcuts for Mac OS X @ www.ss64.com – a site dedicated to all kinds of applications/os syntax… Editing Text (email, TextEdit, Pages, etc) ⌥ ← Move one word left ⌥ → Move one word right ⌘ ← Beginning of line ⌘ → End of line Scroll one...

Intelligent Design has came up with a handcrafted Bluetooth laser mouse. "Grade 1 titanium, high quality plastic resin, a neodymium scroll wheel and impressive design for those who demand perfection at their fingerprints", and are and willing to pay for it. The price tag is $1200. Well, perfection has never been cheap. I guess the...

Gmail Tasks has one very useful feature. It is an outliner that lets you organize tasks into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. As much as I love OS X Mail and iCal, the ability to quickly break any task into sub-tasks makes a big difference in usability.

I love iTunes. Have been using it since version 1 (or 2 – can’t remember) but certainly for a long time. At the beginning  I hesitated to switch to it completely - my pal for a long time was Panic’s Audion. iTunes won. Since then it’s been my jukebox of choice. It keeps getting better...

I have to say I’m very satisfied with Adobe's presentation of the new CS4. Here are a few main reasons from a usability standpoint: Adobe focused on workflow and user experience. They kept most of great Macromedia GUI innovations and greatly developed some of them further. FireWorks has become a full member of CS family. PDF workflow is greatly improved...