October 2004

UI Designer : The Next GUI–Maybe LUI – proposing “lists” as the replacement for the WIMP interface; information-centric instead of WIMP-tool-centric

43 Folders: Does this “next action” belong someplace else? – how one person chooses where to file a “next action”; should you create a new project with this as an action, or is this a solo action?

37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design – the way 37s builds pages

flo’s freeware – Notepad2 – for windows only

How to set up Mac OS 9, by Mark Hurst

TypeItForMe – a Mac utility that does autoreplace of any text string in any application (e.g. “br” could always turn into “Bob Ryskamp”, “ahr” into ““); SpellCatcher, TextExtras, and KeyboardMaestro are similar.

Notational Velocity – notepad with autosave, simple interface, would be great to emulate for the web…

Dowser – a search clustering Python script to run on your local machine

Name that Candybar – Science Museum of Minnesota

Iconico – View Source Editor, the easy way to change the editor in Internet Explorer