Windows Problem Reporting window 2009 January 12
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This unsizeable window suddenly showed up. I don’t have good feeling about this.
World Usability Day 2008 November 14
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“Today is World Usability Day
| Welcome message by Bill Gates – “It’s about making our world work better. It’s about ‘Making Life Easy’ and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a wa
“ Yeah, and a doorknob could be as easy as a door handle.. geez, these Yankees.. |
OODA Loop 2008 July 22
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I talked (ok, IM:ed) with Anders last friday, just before I got on vacation, and for some reason we started talking about PAD (Pen and Paper Aided Design). I googled the phrase, and to my dispare, I got my own post as the top hit. Ok, hoped the idea was a little more spread.
Anyhow we also got talking about product development and complexity, and I sphew out a lot of stuff. But I realized that everbody should read about the OODA Loop by John boyd. I saw “Generation Kill” s01ep02 today and I thought I heard the “Godfather” say something like ” .. and I can quote Boyd ..”. You wish! :-) I wonder how many of the marines that understand Boyd. But anyhow, it’s good stuff for most of us.
Also, do listen to Uffie! Thats not a recommendation, it’s a must! Of course, it’s her on the Justice album on the song “Tthee pparty” or whatever it’s called.
Using your Office 2007-effect-pimped objects elsewhere 2008 February 2
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I like the new effects that Office 2007 brought on, like reflection and soft shadows. I use that sometimes to make nice presentations or for images in documents. Totally Art-deco, but still nice ;-)
So, the other day, I pimped my company’s PowerPoint template a bit with among others a part from our logo with reflection, shadows, and rotation. I also wanted to put this thing onto the webpage as an image. And since the webpage only have gradient background images, I needed to keep the transparency information. But how?
First idea was to screen shot the image and then transform the back color to a transparency. This turned out ok, using Gimp’s function “Color to Alpha”.
Better yet, copy-paste the object to your favorite paint program (Paint.Net). But this also required me to fake the alpha info.
But then! If I copied the object to Word, put it inside a Drawing Canvas, and then, copied it and pasted it into Paint.Net I got the alpha channel intact! The problem here is to get the object inside the drawing canvas. Copy the object, make sure canvas is large enough, then select the canvas, and past the object. Repeat until success.
But hey, I couldn’t get it to work just now. I added a second object, a square. I selected both and then copied. Worked some.
Moved the X next to the square and selected it. Didn’t work.
Selected both the X and the square, but with the X at the side. Worked. At last!
Got it!
Pretty colors 2007 May 11
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Just started a week of no work. Sort of like vacation. Kind of. Gonna be fun to see if I can withstand answering incoming emails about the development or customer support. =^_^=
Hopefully I can manage to at least put one hour of work the coming week on SharpWired (or the SF page).
Igge tried some months ago to plot all the colors in an image in a 3D-plot using MATLAB. This was to slow thought, and today while correcting his report to fit my red and angry notes and comments, he found this plug in to ImageJ called Color Inspector 3D. It shows the colors from an image in a RGB cube or HSV cone or similar. Problem is, it don’t handle images that are a bit larger, to well. Some not at all it seams. Still very nice though.
Written in Java (well, the whole of ImagJ is to). I think a C# clone would be splendid…
