Jun 18 2008
Posted by Carlos Granier-Phelps and filed under Usability
Jun 10 2008
Posted by Carlos Granier-Phelps and filed under Software, Usability
Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G puts to rest all the crazy rumors about new features it may include. Here are seven features I was waiting for but never materialized.
Feb 18 2008
Posted by Carlos Granier-Phelps and filed under Software, Usability
Ever tried emailing a Keynote presentation? Uploading it? FTP? The progress counter just stays there, counting, but nothing ever gets uploaded.
The problem lies within Apple’s .key file format. Keynote files are actually folders (or Packages, as Apple likes to call them) containing all the different files used in the presentation.
Right-click on any Keynote file and [...]
Feb 05 2008
Posted by Carlos Granier-Phelps and filed under Software, Usability
I recently upgraded my browser to Firefox 3.0B2 and, while importing my previous bookmarks, inadvertently deleted the Places folder.
Firefox 3 offers new Smart Folders that automatically track stuff like your Most Visited Pages, Recently Starred Pages, Recently Used Tags, etc. These folders require a special syntax to create them, but I was unable to find [...]
Oct 20 2007
Posted by Carlos Granier-Phelps and filed under Software, Usability
Gmail’s free storage has just gone up to around 4GB. I’m not quite sure when this occurred, but this morning my storage gauge indicated 70% full, which was considerably less than normal. I double checked, and it turns out Google added about 1GB of additional space to my Gmail account.
What about your Gmail [...]