John’s Jottings

Whenever I’ve stumbled across Jakob Nielsen’s website useit.com I’ve chuckled politely to myself - here is one of the supposed leading web usability experts and his website looks like shit. I don’t expect anyone to be thrilled with my design, but that isn’t what I do for a living. You put web usability [...]

Google has introduced Google News Alerts, a service that allows you to get email updates when news includes keywords that you specify. It’s a great way to keep up to date with news as it happens - set some up for your company, competitor, industry, etc.
Frankly I’ve already been doing this for awhile through [...]

Why is it that when I mistype a url like http://www.cnn,com that browsers are not smart enough to realize I made a typo and to correct it for me? I’d really like that.