Category Archives: Usability

Calling People from a Text Message on the iPhone

By zacharyc | Published: October 7, 2008

Have you ever been using your iPhone, in the middle of sending a text message to a friend when you realize it would just be easier to call them and talk it out? With the current interface you have to leave the SMS application, navigate to your contacts using either Phone or Contacts, find the [...]

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MFC’s Radio Button Hack

By zacharyc | Published: September 4, 2008

Disclaimer: I am a mac user, but a windows programmer. MFC is Microsoft’s old Window framework. Basically it is an object oriented wrapper around the traditional Win32 programming environment presented by Microsoft to help develop windows. Win32 is many years old, and so is MFC. Microsoft’s new frameworks, .NET and WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) are [...]

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A Flaw in Apple

By zacharyc | Published: August 19, 2008

John Gruber nails it: Apple’s biggest problem isn’t with its product quality (which, overall, remains very high), but with its communication to customers. If your reading this blog, you probably know that I’m a big Apple fan. I will stand up for Apple all over the place, but I have been increasingly frustrated with their [...]

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Wil Shipley on the Mojave Experiment

By zacharyc | Published: August 11, 2008

Wil Shipley wrote a blog post on the Mojave Experiment whereby Microsoft “proved” that Vista is a great operation system. I think Wil makes a couple of really powerful points in his article, but there is one that I feel he leaves out. These people were shown what they thought to be the NEXT version [...]

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Mint.com it’s awesome, check it out

By zacharyc | Published: August 8, 2008

Mint.com is a financial site that allows you to log into one system to see all of your finances. Basically, it is as if you were able to take all your separate accounts and move them to one bank view. It’s really quite interesting, and I”m excited about getting on top of all my finances [...]

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TOC on all Books Please

By zacharyc | Published: June 15, 2008

I shop for mostly non-fiction books. Most of these books tend to be on new and emerging technologies. When I’m purchasing a book on a technology, I really want to know the content of the book before I purchase it. What I really want is a table of contents. Just a list of the chapter [...]

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Why I don’t write more posts

By zacharyc | Published: June 10, 2008

I often have ideas for good blog posts, but never get around to actually writing them. There are several reasons for this, but one stands above the rest. I hate large bodies of text. I hate reading them, and therefore I hate writing them for other people to read them.  There is nothing more annoying [...]

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ConEd Does Not Accept Visa, Are You Kidding Me?

By zacharyc | Published: April 3, 2008

While I have still yet to write the long overdue post, I have moved from my NYC apartment to the west coast, California, specifically. With this, I terminated my ConEd account. Now, in the process of setting up my account I had hooked direct pay up to a bank account I almost never put money [...]

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