Changelog » Usability http://zeppox.net/weblog Doing the things a web geek does Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Time to start hating on Office 2003… http://zeppox.net/weblog/2003/12/badtoolbars http://zeppox.net/weblog/2003/12/badtoolbars#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:48:25 +0000 http://jackson.zeppox.net/weblog/2003/12/08/badtoolbars badtoolbars

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  1. Yet Another New Look-N-Feel. I really wish Microsoft would stick with a system-wide look-n-feel for its UI bits. This constant redesign makes it so that developers can’t keep up, and in the end every app on my machine acts just a little differently than all the others.
  2. Toolbars can’t be locked down. This is one of my favorite Windows XP features, but it doesn’t seem to be making it into other MS products.
  3. OneNote is so much less than the concept would make it seem.
  4. None of the Office Apps use my default browser (Mozilla Firebird).

Outlook 2003

  1. Outlook’s new search folders only work on local mail folders.

]]> http://zeppox.net/weblog/2003/12/badtoolbars/feed 0 Tickets by phone http://zeppox.net/weblog/2003/11/tixphone http://zeppox.net/weblog/2003/11/tixphone#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:33:33 +0000 http://jackson.zeppox.net/weblog/2003/11/07/tixphone tixphone

]]> First you could buy movie tickets via the web and pick them up at the theater. Then you could print the tickets and bring them with you. Now you can buy concert tickets on your phone. Even cooler is that you receive the ticket as an image (or text for older phones) via SMS. The image has a barcode that can be scanned at the gate (or a unique ID for text messages).

If anyone wants to make “m-commerce” work, they need to focus on the kind of thing people buy on short notice. The ability to look up movie times, then buy tickets form my phone actually makes me want to use the stupid browser my phone has. Anything that lets me find a movie on short notice then buy the tickets without waiting in line is something I wholly support.

update: Forgot to mention that I was talking about cell phones…

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