PCWorld.com – DVD Copying Software Sparks New Legal Battle. 321 Studios is heading to court to find out why you can legally make copies of video tapes and CDs, but not DVDs. [ … ] The software maker plans to release on October 31 a product called DVD X Copy, which allows users to create… Continue reading DVD Copying Software Sparks New Legal Battle

Doc reports on the Digital Hollywood conference he attended. When I showed up at the Digital Hollywood conference in Beverly Hills last week, I didn't expect much in the way of connectivity. Free wireless Net access, now almost standard at computer industry conferences, was out of the question. Net-connected PCs in the speaker and press… Continue reading Doc

Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability). Some of the questions that Michael Bernard tries to answer: – How should information be positioned in a typical website?– How can I make my website's structure more navigable?– How should text be presented within a website?– How can I effectively use images on my website?– Are… Continue reading Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability)

Should you hack your own network – Dan Orzech for CIO Information Network – There is a good article here on checking your systems for vulnerabilities. There are a few companys in the market that can do scans of up to 1000 separate vulnerabilities including IIS buffer overflows and poorly set security settings for as… Continue reading Should you hack your own network

Registry Utilities – You should be backing up your Dreamweaver registry entries including your site definitions. Unfortunately, the capability is not built into Dreamweaer. The good news though is that there is a utility to do this for you from Corey Eiges. The time to check this out is now, if you wait till something… Continue reading utility to do this

Looking for pricing guidelines and salary surveys? – There are a couple good places to look for guides on how to price your work and yourself. People ask for this all the time and I thought it would be worth having the links here. (Thanks JD) http://www.gag.org/pegs/http://www.emediastaffing.com/html/salary_guide.html [Matt Brown's Radio Weblog]

DonnaM's blog. Donna Maurer, and IA from down under, has started an interesting blog where she is capturing thoughts that occur to her as she works through IA, interaction design, and usability problems on the job. I find it can be helpful to remember what I've been thinking while trying to solve problems on a… Continue reading DonnaM's blog

The difficulty of categorization. Philip C. Murray's KM Connection article, The difficulty of categorization discusses implications of using categorization in the enterprise. In it he, he cite's Bella Hass Weinberg's 1996 article from the ASIS Conference Proceedings, Complexity In Indexing Systems — Abandonment And Failure: Implications For Organizing The Internet, to bring up the issue… Continue reading The difficulty of categorization

Exchanging Exchange.  Microsoft to detail new Exchange, Outlook “ The new version of Exchange, which handles e-mail, calendars and contact lists, will be released in mid-2003. It is the company's first major update to the product since releasing Exchange 2000 nearly two years ago. In the $1.6 billion e-mail and messaging market, Microsoft ranks first… Continue reading Exchanging Exchange

since1968: Lou Rosenfeld & Peter Morville Interview. On the other hand, the search system may be incredibly usable, but poorly designed from an architectural perspective, and therefore doesn't help you find what you're looking for. Usability and findability are simply different aspects of design, and you can have one without the other. [Tomalak's Realm]