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Comment · 14 years ago

Looks like this one: http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/high_tower_text.html

Comment · 14 years ago

A bit off-topic, but I couldn't find this and was very curious: What font are the slides using in the code snippets? It looks very clean--I didn't realize it was monospace at first.

Comment · 14 years ago

In general, I agree that Helvetica looks much prettier on a Mac than on Windows (one of the main reasons I despise seeing font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; on pages). Some other fonts don't look too bad on Windows, though.

I don't know much about font rendering; this is just what I've noticed. For what it's worth, some screenshots of the same text with font-family set to Helvetica [0], Myriad Pro, and Segoe UI on Windows 7, Firefox.

Helvetica(/Arial): http://snag.gy/Jneor.jpg Myriad Pro: http://snag.gy/f2IJx.jpg Segoe UI: http://snag.gy/ujvpX.jpg

[0] This actually defaults to Arial, I believe, because afaik Helvetica is not bundled with Windows. (Is there no way to use asterisks on HN?)

Comment · 14 years ago

I agree that in the long run it would be better for users; yet as a user, I'm used to clicking on the Okay button on the left. Every time I see one isolated application with the Okay button on the right, I'm going to have a slower/harder time knowing which button I need to press.

If one of your users uses 50 applications, and he uses yours once in a week, he's going to be annoyed at your application for being different; even if that "different" is supposedly better, reflexes have taught the user to scan the buttons in a certain way.

I'm not suggesting that the order we have now is better; but until one of the OSs or an application like Facebook moves to the "better" button order, I can't see why a designer might do so for his own application.

Comment · 14 years ago

Dunno about others, but this is what I see: http://i.snag.gy/LPiss.jpg. I assume the author was using a "trusted PC," which he had previously verified.
What's really annoying about Hotmail passwords is the 16 character limit.

Edit: This is what Hotmail says about verifying a "trusted PC."

"To use this feature, you must access your account using Internet Explorer and have Windows Live Essentials installed."

Comment · 14 years ago

Some of the newer PCs aren't too bad with this. My desktop sucks with sleep, but the two laptops I use are pretty flawless (though one's battery is terrible). I haven't shut one down in 3 weeks, and the other in a week. They're pretty standard, too; the good battery life one was around $600.

Haven't used a Macbook, though, so can't compare.

Comment · 14 years ago

Just curious, have you worked at Microsoft before? (Serious question; I'm not trying to discount your opinion either way)

Comment · 14 years ago

Ah, cool. Thanks! I'll keep that in mind, and send you an email sometime. I'd like to work on some small projects, take a few more classes, learn some new things for a while before applying again. No point applying repeatedly without having added anything, heh. Thanks for the reference, though; I'll be sure to annoy you sometime this year with an email.

Comment · 14 years ago

Any tips on applying as an intern? Are the online applications a decent route? Sorry; not entire on topic, but I've wanted to intern there for years.

Comment · 14 years ago

Mentioned this above somewhere, but thought I'd leave it here, too. Try Console. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

It makes working in Windows much, much nicer.

Comment · 14 years ago

Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/. It's wonderful.

Comment · 14 years ago

If you could do that well, that would be amazing. There was a post years ago from a Mozilla intern on "Lifestream." It's a little bit like your idea, but I've wanted this for so long. Still haven't figured out how to do this, so I shall wait to see how yours turns out instead.

Take a look: http://weizhou.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/prototype/

I personally think some of the ideas there are amazing. I attempted to contact the intern on whether there was any work still being done in this area, but received no response. I really hope someone can create a browser extension, or perhaps that Mozilla might still consider implementing this.

I currently have an obsessively organized library of bookmarks, which still fails me at times.

Edit: Is there any way to organize bookmarks within folders on your website? I see it is not possible in the bookmarklet.

Comment · 14 years ago

Do you have a list or such? I'd love to use these. I've only seen MetroTwit, Zune, and this.

Comment · 14 years ago

'Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there".'

Comment · 14 years ago

You can't try it as soon as you sign up. If you sign up, you'll "be notified." That being said, I was once signed up for a Bing Newsletter, and they weren't too spammy. Still, wish I could try it without having to sign up.