Entries tagged with usability - Channel 10

IE Surfgear

sarahintampa — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:19:00 GMT

IE Surfgear is freeware program that can help you read poorly designed web pages by fixing font and color problems. The software adds three buttons to the Internet Explorer toolbar, each of which addresses one of the following problems: tiny, un-resizable fonts, poor text colors, or poor background textures. With one click of a button, IE Surfgear will either increase the font size, remove background colors from text, or remove the textured backgrounds. If you want to see how it works, there's a demo on the product home page that you can check out first. Otherwise, you can download the program for free. (via gHacks)

Sweet Sidebar Gadget: Vista Hot Corners

Jesse — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:56:00 GMT

The Vista Hot Corners Sidebar gadget enables you to quickly engage Vista's Flip 3D function, simply by rolling the mouse over the gadget. You can adjust the gadget's size and color, as well as whether you want your open windows arranged using Vista's Flip 3D or in a flat style similar to Mac OS X's Expose. One of the most telling measures of software usability is the number of clicks a given operation requires (in the early days at Palm there was an employee who's sole task it was just to 'count taps'), and this gadget does wonders for saving you those precious taps, clicks, or punches, depending on your attitude.