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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:28 PM

Begin making improvements on SDK documentations before losing your developers

SDK documentation is the most official documentation and support material for developers to learn how to use the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) the platform provides. The quality of SDK documentation directly affects the willingness and difficulty...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:39 AM

No way to join the social – Is the lack of global languages support on Zune a problem, or not at all?

It’s been a pretty long time since the first generation of Zune came out. Microsoft wants to attract us as potential users to join the social – they made pretty good media sharing and community features so that to distinct from similar products made by...
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Monday, May 12, 2008 11:01 AM

Xiaonei and Facebook - Huge differences, but who cares?

Xiaonei , which is called “the Facebook of China,” has a very similar user interface as Facebook . It provides similar but simplified functionalities. While western media often compare the two and discuss about the potential competitions they may have...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:08 PM

Usability Issue - Windows Security Center

My friend went to China for a 3-month vacation last December. Just now she asked me to help turn on her computer and send her a file in her computer. Since the computer hasn't been on for two months, the first notification I got when I logged in was...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 5:37 PM

Usability Issue - My Keyboard's "Logout" Button

There are three shortcut buttons on my keyboard which are linked to the calculator, logout command, and sleep command respectively. They are next to each other. I like this design since these shortcut buttons have saved me a lot of times for these activities...
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Friday, December 28, 2007 8:33 PM

Usability Issue in Windows Recycle Bin on the Desktop

If you put a Recycle Bin on the desktop, you might empty it by right clicking it and click "Empty Recycle Bin" form the menu. But you may have noticed that there is another option in the menu called "Delete" which is for deleting the...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:05 AM

Privacy, Privacy, Privacy...

Not a very long time ago I studied Human Computer Interaction for a quarter. Not saying how much I learned in the class, even after the course I still keep noticing useability issues of everything in my everyday life. Last week I went to a ticket office...
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