Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Be first to sign up for Picasa Web Albums by Google.
Just pick a bunch of your photos from Picasa and upload them into a web album in a couple of clicks. Once they’re online, it’s super-easy to share them – click the “Share†button from anywhere on the site or, just email friends the URL for your public gallery.
If you have never heard of Picasa, here's what Google said about it:
... it’s Google’s free desktop photo management software. Picasa is a quick download that makes it easy for people to organize and edit their pictures using something that’s simple and clutter-free. It’s all about the photos.
You might want to take a look at the sample album before you sign up.
Note that this is also a limited test, so you will have to wait for Google's reply after you submitted your email to them. I suppose this is Google's solution to prevent server load problems faced by other previous projects such as Google Analytics.
Remember to send me your Picasa Web Albums link after you signed up!
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
AjaxLoad is a very simple website that generates loading image for Ajaxed sites. They allow you to customised the shape, background and foreground color.
Besides that, they maintain a top 10 list for most used loader images. This is the leading one at AjaxLoad:
Be sure you check it out when you are doing Ajax.
(via Journal of Useful Tips)
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Webmonkey talked about 8 common web usability problems that I think all web designers must read. It's definitely an article worth reading as Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger really had did a good job to identify those problems.
A summary of the article:
- Links that don't change color when visited
- Breaking the back button
- Opening new browser windows
- Pop-up windows
- Design elements that look like advertisements
- Violating Web-wide conventions
- Vaporous content and empty hype
- Dense content and unscannable text
Do you have any other point to add? Glad I didn't break any of the rules!
Monday, June 12th, 2006
Windows Vista Beta is available for download at Microsoft website, if you didn't hear about the big news lately. Alternatively, you may download it through BitTorrent (Good job, Chris and Jake). Then, you can dual-boot Windows Vista with your Windows XP with this Lifehacker tip.
I'm not ready for such huge installation for myself. I've too many thing in progress and can't afford to lose any data as the beta operating system might cause instability. Hope you can try it out! Have fun.