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Redesigning The Country Selector

April 28, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

Advertisement The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries. However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out usability (which we wrote about here on Smashing Magazine back in April 2011), we consistently found usability issues with the massive country selector drop-downs. Jakob Nielsen reported similar issues as far back as 2000 and 2007 when testing drop-downs with a large number of options, such as state and country lists. So, this past summer we set out to redesign the country selector. This article focuses on the four design iterations we …

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Uninstall Preloaded Windows 8 Apps in Bulk With This Program

April 28, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Removing bloatware from a new PC is a rite of passage for most Windows users whenever they get a new machine. And for years, desktop users have turned to third-party programs such as PC Decrapifier to automate bloatware removal. But removing all those pre-installed “Metro” apps in Windows 8 hasn’t been so easy, and boy, does Microsoft pre-install a lot of them. (Around 20 in the Windows 8.1 Update, if you’re counting.) For the most part, the only option was to go through each modern app one-by-one, right-clicking the ones you didn’t want, and then selecting “uninstall”. Not too difficult, but very manual. A new, free program aims to change all that. Called Windows 8 App Remover, this desktop program automates the process of…

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Uninstall preloaded Windows 8 apps in bulk with this program

33 Amazingly Useful Websites You Never Knew Existed

April 28, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

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33 Amazingly Useful Websites You Never Knew Existed

CanIStream.It: Search Netflix, Hulu & More!

April 28, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

How Can I Stream It? Works CanIStream.It is a free service created by Urban Pixels that allows you to search across the most popular streaming, rental, and purchase services to find where a movie is available. If the movie you’re looking for is not available, just sign-up, set a reminder and voila we will shoot you an email when your chosen service makes the movie available. It’s simple and fast. Can I Stream It? breaks down the services into five categories: Instant Streaming Subscription based and free instant streaming services. Streaming Rental Services that offer time limited rentals (24-48 hours) for a small fee. Digital Purchase Services that offer the ability to purchase a movie forever. DVD / Bluray Services that allow you to purchase or …

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CanIStream.It: Search Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Google Play, Amazon, Crackle, Redbox, XFINITY Streampix, HBO GO, Showtime, Blockbuster, Youtube Movies,…

Online Etymology Dictionary

April 28, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries. The basic sources of this work are Weekley’s “An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English,” Klein’s “A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,” “Oxford English Dictionary” (second edition), “Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology…

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Online Etymology Dictionary