bmccarthy

Take 10 seconds right now and think of the one thing (product, service, website, software, gadget, whatever) that really works for you, that's so elegant in its design and operation it must be the result of a good…

Seeing fancy navigation and object manipulation demos, people forget how much of our use of computers for every day work involves typing. So great as it is, I really don't see the multi-touch screen replacing all…

When you arrive in the room, you put your key card in the reader and all of the systems work as expected. When you leave, you take your key card with you and everything is powered off. This makes it easy and painless to…

riefly, Scrum is an Agile software development methodology designed to produce higher-quality output that is more responsive to market needs. it is focused on constantly delivering value rather than on meeting a…

A few years back I discovered a great Search plug-in for Outlook called LookOut. It was lightning fast and it not only searched all Outlook folders at once, but it even searched designated folders on my hard drive…

Joel and his crew are so very user-driven in my estimation because they themselves are the users.

I've recently been finding a number of win-win-win situations - triple plays, I call them - in my every day life. These are situations where I can make a lifestyle choice that pays me back in multiple ways. Usually…

A while ago I wrote a post about why I don't use compact fluorescent bulbs. A few others posted that they, too, had trouble adapting to the new style bulbs because of the off color and the slow warm up times. But then I…