A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing

Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them. Fortunately, there is an explanation for these counterintuitive outcomes that can help us choose a more appropriate evaluation course.

This is a good article exploring some of the boundaries of usability testing.

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This might be worth trying. And Skype. And DimDim. And GoToMeeting. And WebEx. And... there's a lot of them out there.

Gmail just got pretty. Introducing Helvetimail.

First there was Jon Hicks’ Helvetireader, then Ad Taylor’s Helvetical, then Jose Frichter’s Helvetwitter and now, Frichter has done it again with a gorgeous revamp of Gmail called Helvetimail.

Jose deserves as much credit as he can get for this, so rather than give full instructions here as to how to install, visit his site for the instructions. What I will say however, is that if you want to take things a step further, check out ZenHabits’ take on a minimalist Gmail.

Another reason to dislike my Sony Vaio - disabled virtualisation

It's not looking good for Sony Vaio owners who were looking to get their hands on a hot, fresh release of Windows 7 - Sony has disabled hardware virtualization in their laptop range, thus rendering Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, and many other Virtual Machine Based products, such as VMware and Virtualbox pretty much useless.

Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones

ABOUT 2 million people are considering ditching their fixed-line home phones, as Australians move closer to becoming one of the world's first wireless economies.

For the first time this year, the communications giant Telstra has had more mobile phone subscribers than fixed-line subscribers. Mobile phones now outnumber fixed lines by more than two-to-one.

Snowleopard: About incompatible software

Software restricted during installation and migration

During installation, Snow Leopard moves known-incompatible software to a folder named Incompatible Software at the root level of the hard drive. If you see this folder on your Mac, use the table below to check with the software vendor to see if any Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard-compatible updates are available.

None of my software is on this list.

Impact of telework on the accounting profession


Impact of telework on the accounting profession

This report contains research into the incidence of teleworking in the accounting profession and its impact on the working and private lives of CPA Australia members.

Also, hear Dr John Campbell CPA MACS, one of the report's authors, discuss how teleworking enhances the work / life balance for employees, promotes staff retention and saves organisations travel time and costs.

From the executive summary:

Telework can introduce distinct discontinuities from
traditional face‑to‑face work environments including new
communication flows and changes in work patterns. These
changes can have a significant impact on work and family
relations. Teleworkers report more job autonomy, greater
organisational commitment, and less intention to leave
their current organisation. However, they also report more
work/private life conflict.