Object-Oriented JavaScript framework

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.
Reffer: http://mootools.net/

New Version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 Available for Download

Is Microsoft starting to sweat with Mozilla’s Firefox breathing down its neck? It sure looks like it. At the beginning of October, the Redmond company stripped the browser from the Windows genuine Advantage mechanism. At one year following the browser’s release for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, XP users no longer have to go through the pains of two separate WGA validations in order to access, download and install IE7. But opening up IE7 build 7.0.5730.13 to all Windows XP pirates was not sufficient for Microsoft.

Download version of IE7 for Windows XP SP2. 

Reference : http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Version-of-Internet-Explorer-7-for-Windows-XP-SP2-Available-for-Download-72463.shtml

New Spy Shot of Sony Ericsson M610i Lizy Phone

Sony Ericsson Lizy phone model has been seen on very few occasions up to this point. From this reason, the new image that has been going by for the past few days has naturally opened the door for speculations and discussions on the phone’s features.

Lizy phone will most probably be 3G enabled and also run on Symbian OS. Media support, such as MP3, video rendering and email are also expected to be provided at high quality. Even more, it is left to see if the TFT touchscreen will also be capable of recognizing handwriting, as it was the case with the other phone model.

Sony Ericsson M610i has just finished FCC testing and has been approved. A date for its release has not been revealed so far. 

Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype?

We all know that in the technology world, the hype about new products often doesn’t match reality. So it’s fair to ask: Is the iPhone as good as its hype? In particular, does iPhone’s much-discussed touch-screen interface really make using the device simpler and more intuitive?Everybody will have an opinion, but what’s need is something more objective and definitive. So an expert in the field — Perceptive Sciences, an Austin, Texas-based usability consulting firm — was asked to examine and compare the iPhone and two competitors.

reference: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9037858 

iPod sync to Office 2008

Microsoft will release Office 2008 for Mac on Jan. 15 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco in several editions priced from $150 to $500.

Microsoft will release Office 2008 for Mac on Jan. 15 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco in several editions priced from $150 to $500.

Reffre:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=9049618&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_top 

Planning a usable website:

A website is like an information flow, with you as the provider and your site visitors as the receivers of the information. If you don’t plan your website with this in mind right from the start, you could find yourself with a brand new website that solves all your immediate needs… but not those of your site visitors.

reference : http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/plan-usable-website.shtml

Improve web usability

Critically evaluating a web site with a heuristic usability evaluation has an astounding ROI. Turn more visitors into loyal customers with web site usability analysis.

If people can’t use your website well enough, they won’t buy from you or contact you. It’s that simple. There are many effective website strategies that allow you to maximize online conversions; turning visitors into loyal customers. Usability improvements have an astounding Return on Investment (ROI). Some ways to improve your website’s usability and effectiveness are:

• Heuristic evaluations (visit our dedicated heuristic evaluations page);
• Usability testing (visit our dedicated usability testing page);
• Task analysis;
• User profiling (Internet personas);
• S.W.O.T. analysis;
• Focus groups;
• Questionnaires;
• Brainstorm techniques;

reference: http://www.u-cwebs.com/usability/effective-website-strategies.htm

Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three

It nice to design with some information, the architecture will add up reality in visual graphic design, i found some intresting information how to create a sensable visual design in an article,

Visual architecture is applied to the new media design context and defined as the use of a particular method of building visual information and balancing communication between images and words.

Visual architecture is to be distinguished from the way that Occidental languages train our eyes to read from left to right and from other languages as well, like oriental and middle-eastern ones, which train the eye differently.

The object of this article is not to discuss language eye training, but to point to the more universal language between words and visual objects (picture, illustration, graph, area boxing, layout, titling) and can be extrapolated to advertising, print, TV, Flash development and CD-ROM productions.

reference : http://www.digital-web.com/articles/visual_architecture_the_rule_of_three/

Learn some thing about SEO

On surfing about the optimization of web page i found intresting details about page ranking, i would like tio share this information to all. just study and update the knowlwdge

“Knowledge is Power”

Please refer : http://www.seo-gold.com/seo-tutorial/

css standards

It’s quite intresting about css web standards. “CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0″. its easy to implement in our workflow and quality of the css can be improved.

Please refer: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/