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Magento 1.0 has arrived!

Jeroen Coumans — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:50:36 +0200

Finally, a stable, feature-rich, usable and all-round great looking Open Source e-commerce system! Built on the Zend PHP Framework, this puppy has a better out-of-the-box experience as many commercial (and thus expensive) systems.

zkimmer - the visual web

Jeroen Coumans — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:22:32 +0200

Nice use of the Zoomable User Interface. Uses Google Maps as an interface for reading magazines.

Time Machine button in the Finder Toolbar

Jeroen Coumans — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:03:04 +0200

Replacement icon for using Time Machine in the Finder toolbar (which is really a more convenient method then starting it up manually).

WordPress 2.5

Jeroen Coumans — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:04:31 +0200

It’s out: “multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.”

AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:59:02 +0100

A nice set of questions that can all answered with the often misunderstood Fitts’ law: "The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target." Required knowledge for any interaction designer!

SaveTheDevelopers.org

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:47:40 +0100

Another anti-IE6 campaign, this time trying to "save the developers" from wasting time on IE6. I liked the Browse Happy campaign better, because it was used to help users get a better browsing experience.

Laws of Software Development

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:44:32 +0100

A nice collection of some trueisms, axioms and "laws" about software development. Nice material to use in a presentation or an article!

markItUp! Universal Markup Editor

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:28:02 +0100

jQuery-based markup editor (NOT wysiwyg editor) to allows easy creation of markup. Supports HTML, Markdown, Textile and Wiki syntax, among others.

Activity Stream

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:22:46 +0100

Drupal module to aggregate your social activities: "Whether it’s bookmarks on Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, pictures on Flickr, music on Last.fm, or posts on your blog, anything you create can be gathered into one easy to read stream. "

Extreme User Research

Jeroen Coumans — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:14:48 +0100

"What’s so extreme about it? Well, it can be done in 30 minutes per interviewee, and it generates loads of useful data that will have a real impact on design, thus making your website more profitable."