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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.


File and Folder organization are part of the daily computer experience. These structures are created and maintained by the user. The basic idiom of saving and opening files has not change through the time and probably most computer users take this system for granted. The following article would like to suggest a new file and folder idiom called projects. These projects should reduce the time users spent on dealing with the organization of files and folders.


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.


This article would like to address some issues with the perception of products. What are the necessary properties which the software vendor needs to take a look at if he/she wants to change the quality perception of their software. Is it possible to create software products which are considered as really high quality products and where people are looking forward to buy the software one time? Is there Harris Tweed or Porsche like software outthere?

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