Archive for April, 2009

Intel is best known for making CPUs, but its research division continues to bring new ways for users to interact with data on the Web. Think Link, one of the company’s most recent projects is attempting to help people spot misinformation, while providing the tools to correct it. Similar to crowd-sourced typo-finder GooseGrade and SpinSpotter [...]

Users are accustomed to seeing a menu bar with Save and Open under “File” and Cut, Copy, and Paste under “Edit.” And then there are keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+S to save. There’s really no point in changing that up on users. I mean, just think about how awful it would be if Ctrl+S closed your [...]

Fun with Math

In: web resources

30 Apr 2009

A coworker of mine is creating an iPhone app, and whenever he encounters tricky math, pulls me in, as he realizes I have fun with it. His problem was: given two points on a circle, find the shortest number of degrees between them So given points at 4° and 20°, the result should be 16°. [...]

The fieldset and legend elements, which should always be used together, allow you to create and name groups of related input fields in HTML forms. By doing this you help users understand how the input fields are related. How the grouping is conveyed to the user depends mainly on whether the user is sighted or [...]

Dan Schawbel is the author of the bestselling book Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With a bad economy, more pressure at work and overwhelming competition, investing in yourself and your future is crucial.  There are a lot of [...]


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