“XMacL offers Mac users relevant XML news and resource links. While the promise of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as a tool for information exchange among computing platforms and software applications is beginning to be realized, XML support in software for the Macintosh has been limited compared to that for some other operating systems.”
“In a recent study of fifteen large Web sites, users could only find information 42% of the time, and clicked away in frustration. Web sites often fail because of confusing design that involves no user input. It is critical that Web sites be usable, or consumers will look elsewhere. The purpose of this document is to provide Web site design and usability guidelines based on emerging research about what constitutes a usable Web site. It provides suggestions and tips for improving overall Web site design, navigation, and functionality; and it brings usability guidelines together in one place for easy reference.”
“People viewing displays often suffer from visual fatigue. By measuring how well the eye accommodates to displayed images, laser optometry has been used to test this aspect of visibility.”
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“…if you use the RealNetworks RealDownload, Netscape/AOL Smart Download, or NetZip Download Demon utilities in their default configuration … EVERY TIME you use one of these utilities to download ANY FILE from ANYWHERE on the Internet, the complete ‘URL address’ of the file, along with a UNIQUE ID TAG that has been assigned to YOUR machine, and — in the case of Netscape’s SmartDownload only — YOUR computer’s individual Internet IP address, is immediately transmitted to the program’s publisher. This allows a database of your entire, personal, file download history to be assembled and uniquely associated with your individual computer … for whatever purpose the program’s publishers may have today, or tomorrow.”
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“What does anyone know about Madison? Let’s see: lefty town; home of the sporting Badgers; the ‘Second City of Slack’ (can you name the first?); setting for ‘Crossing to Safety,’ the most easterly of Westerner Wallace Stegner’s many novels, and thus the one most people have read. And Madison is the improbable home of the nation’s funniest humor magazine, The Onion.”
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