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Thursday, 18 August 2005

A brand name gone wrong

Posted on 23:12 by Unknown
"Did you know that Heroin was originally a brand name for cough syrup? In 1874, German scientists developed a formula for a painkiller that they thought would be less addictive than morphine. They simply added two acetyls to morphine to synthesize diacetylmorphine.

Heinrich Dreser, the head of Bayer drug development tried it on animals and humans. He, also, tried it on himself, which may have been the problem. He was very pleased with the results and decided it was a good treatment for many ailments especially respiratory ones like bronchitis, asthma and tuberculosis." Read more on Free Enterprise Land
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Wednesday, 3 August 2005

Interactive Documentation

Posted on 03:03 by Unknown
Novell has a 'Comments' feature on its product documentation pages. User can leave their feedback instantly, instead of sending an E-mail later. (But why does the RSS link fail on your site guys?)

Microsoft too has an instant feedback feature for its documentation, but somehow I don't like it. It appears to be complex, as compared to Novell's.
But I like PHP.net's interactivity the best. Don't ask me why. It is just subjective I guess.

Anyway, out of curiosity I went to Apple's iPod site (I own a Shuffle) and I discovered to my utter dismay the terrible feedback mechanism they have. Gray text on gray background and they expect users to notice that 'Provide Feedback' link. Ambitious. I expected something better from Apple.
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Monday, 1 August 2005

Review of Screen Capture Tools

Posted on 21:40 by Unknown
Check out the Review of Screen Capture Tools. Neat.

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