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If the target demographic you’re designing for is female, there’s something you should know: make it round. No joke. Molly has a great article and some insight into what attracts male and female users to particular designs. Men prefer straight and more angular things while women often opt for designs characterized by the use of…
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...Read MoreA big ‘thank you’ to my loving wife who splurged and got me an early birthday present. What’d I get? One of the wildly-popular coffee machines that use the pads. I didn’t get the Senseo brand but that’s OK, this one works just as well and the pods seem to work just fine. We picked…
...Read MoreWho knew something healthy could sound soooo good. A Dietitian’s View: A Twist on Lasagna: Layered Zucchini This is also good without the cottage cheese filling – not a big fan of any cottage cheese/ricotta cheese lasagna layer. The mozzarella still makes it cheesey. 4 cups water6 cups sliced zucchini (about 3 medium)1 pound ground…
...Read MoreHow to Develop Web Applications with Ajax, Pt. 1 – WebReference.com – A pretty good primer on developing web applications with Ajax. Begins with sample code and XML data retrieval. (tags: ajax howto html javascript programming web tutorial xml reference software tools xhtml)
...Read MoreUnion Democrat: A falling boulder killed a 42-year-old Modesto woman and injured her young son Saturday as they were enjoying a family fishing trip at Pinecrest Lake. The family was fishing with friends on a granite slope below a popular hiking trail that rims the lake when a boulder the size of a small SUV…
...Read MoreOye. Look at what’s been found in my own backyard. Union Democrat: The U.S. Forest Service has re-leased a plan for fixing an abandoned uranium mine near Kennedy Meadows that is leaking radioactive material into a nearby creek. The plans, released Friday, call for putting radioactive dirt and rock back into the pit from which…
...Read MoreAsk Yahoo!: i.e. means “in other words” and e.g. means “for example.” There. Now STOP SCREWING THEM UP. Tags: writing, language
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