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Category Archives: Nerdliness
Nielsen on kids (and summarized too)
In “Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids,” Jakob Nielsen compares web usability for children and adults, finding some interesting differences, particularly in repeated tasks and revealing personal info. Bonus: the report is also a quick summary of Nielsen’s work as a whole. Continue reading
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Tagged design, games, kids, nielsen, parental control, play, summary, usability, web
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Good CFP moves by C&W 2011
Four good things about the CFP for Computers & Writing 2011 Continue reading
Visualizing From A to [A]
Visualizing From A to [A] with a word cloud made from the index Continue reading
Facebook click-jacking
New web/email nastiness: Facebook click-jacking or like-jacking. Continue reading
That’s true for all software
I’m tired of the obligatory “free ain’t free” paragraph included in every article about free or open source software. So here’s one for the pay-for-it kind. Continue reading
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Lucid Lynx
Installing and using the new (to me) version of Ubuntu Linux, 10.04, “Lucid Lynx.” Fast and solid. Continue reading
tcpdump
Using tcpdump: tcpdump -A -i en1 -s0 Continue reading
Madelyn’s computer time
Madelyn’s computer time is increasing, in part because she’s about to get her own computer. We’re using the parental controls in Mac OS X to keep her from using the computer too much. Continue reading