GUI Glossary

Checkbox or check box? How many times have you been caught in that awful knot? Here is a little help:

GUI Glossary: definitions of frequently used GUI terms.

Enjoy!

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Enhancing Internal Communications with Blogs, Wikis, and More

Insightful presentations by Nick Finck, Mary Hodder, and Biz Stone. If you are in anyway related to Intranets you may want to check these out:

Enhancing Internal Communications with Blogs, Wikis, and More



The Why and How of Blogging

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Merry Christmas Folks!

Merry Christmas Folks! Have a great holiday season and a terrific new year. :-)


Write to me: Suman[at]sumankumar[dot]com

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Comments System: Anyone Can Post Comments Now!

Folks, I know some of you were irritated by the fact that you had to login (if you're a Blogger user) or post as Anonymous while posting comments on this blog. I have done away with that. Now, anyone can post comments. No need to login to Blogger and stuff. Trust this improves the interaction here. I should have done it long time back (when Guy Haas suggested it) but I did not... Well, it is never too late. Give it a spin and offer feedback! And hey, Merry Christmas!


Write to me: Suman[at]sumankumar[dot]com

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Hollywood May Hire You!

Check this out. This is a brilliant observation:

>"Screenwriting = Creative Technical Writing"

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Firefox: Tech writer friendly!

• Firefox has an in-built popup blocker.



• Firefox saves your screenspace through its tabbed-browsing feature. Firefox allows for opening multiple sites using tabs (within
  
  one instance), unlike IE that opens a separate instance of the browser everytime you open a new window. What it means is that you could be browsing 20 sites, but there is only one Firefox window. Very cool.



• Firefox allows you to highlight your search results. When you are searching for a keyword on a webpage (ctrl+f) you can set Firefox to highlight the matches.



• FireFox Allows you to search dictionary.com (without having to visit dictionary.com).



• Firefox is RSS friendly. It auto-detects RSS feeds from any website and allows you to bookmark it as a 'live bookmark'. Refresh the bookmark to see what's latest (through a drop-down).



• Firefox allows you to select text from a web page using your keyboard! Yes, you can scroll through the page using the arrow keys. Hit F7 on your Firefox and check it out.

And, migrating to Firefox is a breeze. Firefox imports your existing settings from Internet Explorer. An import wizard will run when you first install Firefox (and is also available later through the File menu, File > Import), and it imports your Favorites, options, cookies, stored passwords, and a variety of other data. This saves you time customizing Firefox to fit your needs.

Also, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, recommends switching from IE to an alternative browser, thanks to certain severe security exploits in IE.

So, what are you waiting for? Download Firefox now!


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Tech-writers – A Necessary Evil

In a world where accuracy is all important, a lot goes over the head of the dummy. I don't know if it's intellectual snobbery, but programmers and managers seem to think that if they understand it, so should the user. It doesn't matter whether or not they do… they SHOULD! Stupid users! Maybe it's the geek's ultimate revenge…



Your document can be 100% accurate, but if the audience can't read it, you've wasted your time.

Excerpt from Glenn Murray's article - Tech-writers – A Necessary Evil (via WebproNews)



I told you! Didn't I?

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