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• Further Comments on Muscle Memory

• Tim Negris posted a comment to my post: Productivity And The “Muscle Memory” Interface It bears repetition. This is what it said… To dig deeper, it seems that the muscle-memory user interface (MMUI) has a few common attributes appearing in most...

• Productivity And The “Muscle Memory” Interface

• This year I will finally be able to put some effort into PDQMac.com, the site I’ve set up with the aim of improving people’s interface productivity. If there’s a key underlying point to what I’ll be doing with that site,...

• One Million Users: Is Stanza Killing The Kindle?

• If you’re not one of its million users, then you’re probably asking “What is Stanza?” Stanza is an electronic book application for the iPod/iPhone available for free through the Apple App Store. It’s not the only free eBook application, but...

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• Office Automation, Extreme Programming, Linux

• The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions (I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously). Office Automation Coffee machines, vending machines, microwaves, etc. Extreme Programming Sometimes referred to as XP, this is yet another programming technique/philosophy which has failed to improve the quality of software. Peppered with archaic and recycled ideas, such as: “the project...

• Novell to SCO, With A Curve Ball

• For me, the most confusing action of all the SCO legal actions (SCO v the rest of the world) is the one with Novell. I mean, I have little understanding of contract law in this or any other area, but I would have thought that when a company buys software from another company it’s kinda...

• The Devil’s IT Dictionary: F

• Failover An operation that, when a system fails, automatically switches the software it was running over to a standby system, where it will usually fail in an identical manner. Fixed Disk A broken disk, repaired. Firmware Hardware that can be relied upon never to change its mind. Formal Method A formal method is a specially constructed language for specifying a program, which...