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- Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)
- Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...
- Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- Yahoo's search strategy: We're not fighting "the megawatt war"
- The perceived "war"This is the 3rd article I've read in a row from these 3 guys all having something to do with a "fight" or a "war".This is really getting old.Not everything needs to be a fight. Does it? I'm starting to think you guys have some real...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Screenshots: Leaked upcoming BlackBerry OS
- The new operating system for the BlackBerry Curve has been leaked. So what's changed? by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Research in Motion, BlackBerry, Zack Whittaker, TTD, UI, User Experience, Curve, RIM, BIS, Email, Productivity, Breaking, Exclusive
- Image galleries 2009-08-15
- Motorola Clutch has QWERTY smartphone style, PTT, military-grade toughness, no contract [review]
- The Motorola Clutch is a fascinating hybrid of a phone. At first glance, it looks much like a BlackBerry smartphone: it's got a full QWERTY keyboard and its profile is a bit of a hybrid between that and a candybar phone -- meaning...
- Tags: Phone, Smart Phone, Camera, Motorola Inc., Motorola Clutch, User Experience, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Windows 8
- Student Cullen Dudas' "Copenhagen" concept user interface for Windows 8. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Copenhagen, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Cullen Dudas, Windows 8, Development, Flash, User Experience, Interface, Zack Whittaker, iGeneration, Microsoft
- Image galleries 2009-05-26
- LG BD370
- Photo gallery:LG BD370If you've been following the Blu-ray market, it was getting obvious toward the end of 2008 that standalone players needed to innovate, since previous step-up features, like Profile 2.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio, were becoming standard. LG was the first company to break the mold by releasing the...
- Tags: disc tray, user experience, LG BD370, LG Electronics Inc., BD300, front panel
- Product reviews 2009-04-08
- How to make your website really, really fast
- How to make your website really, really fastBest Performance..Make it Lynx optimised ;) Sorry, couldn't resist making that joke :)RE: How to make your website really, really fastQuote from recent Forrester report " the key to web performance is a multidiscplinary approach that focuses not only on raw speed but...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, poor user, Web site, user experience
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Samsung BD-P2550
- One of the main criticisms against Blu-ray is that the technology just doesn't offer much of an advantage over DVD. While we'd argue that the superior image quality can be worth it, we'd agree that many of the other features, such as BD-Live or animated, pop-up menus, don't offer a...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Monitors & displays, user experience, Samsung BD-P2550, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-11-15
- What the iPhone says about user experience
- What the iPhone says about user experience"one device that does almost everything" ???There were plenty of smart phones before the iPhone. The iPhone doesn't do flash (Adobe, or camera), java, I don't know if they fixed the Exchange Server thing but it doesn't do tactile keyboards feedback.You say the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, phone, user experience, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard support
- WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard supportProductivity measurementsThis would be a great benchmark to compare productivity between the iPhone and other smartphones. So far, reviews of the iPhone have basically boiled down to [b]USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE!11!!1one!!1[/b]. You could tell us [b]exactly[/b] how...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, WordPress iPhone, keyboard support, Apple iPhone, User Experience, Wordpress, British Telecommunications, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- TaskClarity Standard 2.02.338 (Windows)
- Make your job easier! Organize your projects and your tasks in the same easy-to-use tool. Why have tasks in one place and projects in several places? We have all gone through the painful process of losing track of some things because we have too many lists! TaskClarity™ comes in...
- Tags: Version, HighRoad Software, User Experience, PRO Version, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales
- SaaS CRM vendor Entellium is phasing out its browser-based offerings in favor of a smart client version that it says sells faster, better and at one-fifth of the marketing costs of the old version. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Entellium, Software-as-a-service, Sun Java Studio Creator, On-demand, Sales, Web Browser, User Experience, Johnston, Rave Complete, Rave Insight, Rave Marketing, Rave Care, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Pay $50 extra for XP on a PC? You've gotta be kidding me!
- Pay $50 extra for XP on a PC? You've gotta be kidding me!Welcome to reality...[b]Whatever happened to the idea that computing would change the world, and that free and fair competition is the basis of a free market society? [/b]Uh... I don't know what ivory tower you grew up in,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Construction, user experience, Apple Inc., Pay $50, job, window, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- User experience begins with the software installer
- User experience begins with the software installerVerbal abuseOh, and yes, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to verbally abuse the programmers... man, what a dream!!Too (*&*)$A# funny....I'm sorry, but your post has nothing on the original and accompanying comments. I'm still chucling and wiping my eyes. I love a...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, software installer, User Experience, Adobe Systems Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- User experience begins with the software installer
- Writer John Welch on his Bynkii blog ranted up a storm this week over his experience installing Adobe Systems' Creative Suite 3. He wonders how it could happen that a software powerhouse could offer such a terrible installer. Or maybe it's because Adobe is so big â€" Welch isn't the...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., User Experience, John Welch, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Strategy, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight (Level 100)
- A rich user experience is getting easier to create with the release of Microsoft Silverlight. The presenter of this webcast shows how Silverlight takes advantage of XAML and provides an easy way to build compelling user interfaces. The presenter demonstrates using the 1.0 version of Silverlight, as well as what's...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, User Experience
- Webcasts 2008-03-27
- SaaS and the global virtual stack
- SaaS and the global virtual stackMore ComplexityPhil,Let's stop talking about how complex IT can be. In reality, people want customisable on-demand applications sitting on a dedicated server, with a web presentation tier connecting to the business logic and database tiers. Trying to abstract the layers creates an un-manageable and exponential...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, NetSuite IPO, software-as-a-service, SaaS Juggernaut, information technology, business logic, on-demand, user experience, virtual stack, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Next up for Salesforce: A Windows-like browser-based desktop user interface?
- We've already seen Web-based desktops from the likes of Laszlo with its Webtop see video and from Sapotek with its Desktoptwo see video -- both of which pursue different models (the former, you must host behind your firewall; the latter is hosted multitenant style by Sapotek) and both of which...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Desktop, Web, User Interface, Sales Force, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, User Experience, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- User interface vs. user experience when it comes to rich Internet applications
- User interface vs. user experience when it comes to rich Internet applicationsStill looking for one example... of a "rich experience" that isn't fundamentally more about stroking the developers' egos than about reducing [b]my[/b] frustration level.Example: I'm in the process of shopping for a new car. The manufacturer sites are...
- Tags: user experience, rich Internet application, animation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
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