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7th February 2000

SparkNotes Study Guides

“…Study guides written and produced exclusively by Harvard students and graduates. Unlike other study guides written by disgruntled academics and stodgy old professors, SparkNotes come from students studying for exams and cramming for papers just like you. We understand what you need to succeed, so we’ve assembled a collection of concise, comprehensive, easy-to-follow study guides that you can access at any time for *free*.”

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7th February 2000

KWIKPOINT

“The International Traveler’s Visual Language Translator Card. KWIKPOINT is a picture card of over 600 color illustrations designed to help an international traveler communicate. It is easy to use; travelers just point to a picture indicating what they want to communicate. KWIKPOINT’S visual vocabulary includes FOOD, EATING OUT, SHELTER, TRANSPORTATION, SHOPPING, SERVICES, and CUSTOMS.”

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7th February 2000

KWIKPOINT

“The International Traveler’s Visual Language Translator Card. KWIKPOINT is a picture card of over 600 color illustrations designed to help an international traveler communicate. It is easy to use; travelers just point to a picture indicating what they want to communicate. KWIKPOINT’S visual vocabulary includes FOOD, EATING OUT, SHELTER, TRANSPORTATION, SHOPPING, SERVICES, and CUSTOMS.” Note: The drawings won’t win any awards but it would be a handy thing to carry around.

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7th February 2000

Usability Heuristics for the Web

By Keith Instone. “Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics appear [here], with his description in bold and my Web-specific comment following. The overriding theme for applying these heuristics to the Web is to use links effectively.”

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7th February 2000

A Blueprint for Building Web Sites

“Technical content for educating architects and decision makers on how to build complex Web sites using Microsoft Windows DNA technologies. This document … stresses keeping operations and application design of a Web site simple and flexible and emphasizes how a dot-com can successfully deploy and operate a site with the necessary effective scalability, availability, security, and manageability.”

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7th February 2000

The GUI Toolkit

“User interfaces occupy an important part of software development. This page provides a comprehensive reference on toolkits for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with emphasis on resources for Free Software (Open Source).”

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