Web browser are a platform for displaying and interacting with remote media(Text/Audio/Visual). The problem with this audio and visual media is that the user has no easy way to retrieve information about the media items/clips. The visitor depends on the information the author provides on the web page. This article would like to suggest on how to display meta data for visual media objects inside a web browser.
One of the main activities in the daily computer interaction is scrolling. This scrolling is as old as the Graphical User Interface and the popularity of the scroll-wheel shows how much attention this idiom has today. This article would like to adress an issue with the feedback of the scrolling interaction. By reading long text on screen readers get easily distracted right after the scrolling process begun. How could this issue be resolved?
Computers are popular. Computers are used by a variety of different people. Different people make different errors. Errors are something nobody likes. What do current computer systems with errors? They alert/inform the user about it. And what else?
This article would like to adress an issue with the current way on how alert/error dialogs are presented.
In Mac OS 10.4 Apple introduced a new search called Spotlight. This search engine is based on crawling through an index of meta data. Most of this data is automatically retrieved in the background through the daily use of Mac OS X. This article would like to address an inefficiency with the current implementation of entering spotlight comments manually.
In 1984 the Macintosh was released with Mac OS 1 which had two different views for the computers file structure–Icon and List view. Around 20 years later Apples Mac OS X provides, besides the browser alike column view, two different views of the users file structure–Icon and List view.
Isn’t there something more? Aren’t todays users confronted with a lot of more files than in 1984? This article would like to suggest a refinement for the current list view implementation.
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Tuesday September 13th 2005