Taras Brizitsky

""You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first," said mouse designer Theodore Beale. "You can launch applications from the desktop, and in your browser you can fire up a specific Internet site with one button, then close it with a double-click on the same button. In Writer and Calc, you can have your most powerful and complicated macros on one row of buttons and simple functions like Bold, Undo, and Format Cell on another. It's very useful in games like World of Warcraft, because even without taking the joystick into account, you've got 16 commands within one click, 40 within two, and all 72 icons on the six action pages within just two double-clicks or less."" - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

Я сначала на полном серьезе принял ЭТО за шутку. Это чтож у авторов в башке-то? - Roman Osadchy

Ценителям прекрасного и UX-гикам понравится: интерактивный видеоклип. - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"1. Children learn at a young age that bad behavior isn’t excused by saying “Cathy did it too!” (I have now written way too much about all this. Aren’t these flaws simply obvious?) I’m not saying anyone at Adobe is evil or crazy. I thought it was, in fact, pretty clear why Photoshop’s sliders are an unappealing mess: they were designed by someone who shouldn’t have been designing, implemented by someone who should’ve been implementing better, skipped over by someone who should have been finding bugs, and approved by someone who should have had higher standards. It’s not the end of the world that a thumb control is misplaced by one pixel. All software ships with bugs, or it doesn’t ship. But here we are, version 11 of the app, and one of the most-used standard controls in the app is broken." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"The New York Times reported today that Apple has opened its first Apple Store in Paris, underneath the Louvre no less, and just two weeks after Microsoft opened up a Windows 7 cafe in Paris in another location. The idea of these two companies competing in a retail environment, and especially a Windows-themed cafe, got me thinking about what would happen if three cafes opened each run in the same style of the operating system it was named for. I figure it might look something like this:" - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"Русский интерфейс — это тонкая настройка никому неизвестных параметров." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

Похоже на головоломку в стиле Машинариума. - dreikanter

"Things to keep in mind: 1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5: 2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment. 3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider. 4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:" - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

MSDN подписка на работе спасёт тебя от мук! - sk@

Я вот подумываю насчет technet plus. - Taras Brizitsky

"I've always thought of Flickr as a place where I can share my photos with friends and family; however, I'm starting to see there's a whole lot more than that. It's a great place to find inspiration for infographics and visualizations or to just browse the giganto collection of work from others." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"A few more words: feel free to demix, remix, rearrange, and revision my audio-visions. Enjoy passing them on to your family and friends across the Internet, since sharing is caring! Creative Commons licensing info is provided, and a whole lotta thanx to the Internet Archive peeps for helping me to store this collection. If you have any questions, commentary, or other things which rippleshock guided you to to say, you're free to get in touch. I'm here." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"Fortune: “Eight people who rarely speak publicly about Jobs explain what makes him one of the best business minds of our time.” Love this bit from Larry Ellison: I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, Calif., and he had no furniture. It struck me that there wasn’t furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He’d rather have nothing if he couldn’t have perfection. And I jokingly said, “The difference between me and Steve is that I’m willing to live with the best the world can provide. With Steve that’s not always good enough.”" - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984 The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

Dvorak just was, and is, an asshat. I never find him very convincing. He was probably better as a wine writer. - winckel

Мигание текста на некоторых слайдах — какой-то глюк QuickTime X. Выяснилось уже в самом конце :\ - Taras Brizitsky

И я о том же. Но общий вывод офигительно :-) - sk@

"Все, что я написал выше, – это информация, которая теоретически должна быть известна любому врачу и которую врачи должны нести в массы. На практике происходит совершенно другое, поэтому все, о чем я буду говорить дальше, – это уже чистая публицистика и эмоции. Если вы мама – вы уже знаете все, что вам надо знать о гриппе в первую очередь, а если хотите знать больше – так на этом сайте есть, чем заняться." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

Изделай, ага. Я-то вообще не видел. - Alexander Saltanøv

Было бы здорово, у тебя отличная презентация была на неохваченную тему, многим будет интересно. - Juras Vetrau

"The page curl has been a Photoshop trick for years now. As Kate wrote previously, the “page curl” or “earmark” is a UI style that can function as a metaphor, implying “turn the page for more”. Its expensive rendering and lack of dynamic-ability when applying it via a generic template has limited its wide spread use over the years. But as the web increases its bandwidth capabilities and the need for more unique and flashy graphics continues to rise, this cheep-trick is start showing up more and more. In most cases, one of the downfalls of the page curl is that the user does not know where it will take them until they click it, since most implementations don’t contain a label. And while many websites have used it in the past, its notable that Google is now using it in its Chrome browser, Slashdot.org has adopted it for a sponsor link on their poll, and it’s starting to show up in applications as well, such as Google Maps for the iPhone." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

Эт я сварганил. Правда как заимплементили я ещё не видел, я спроектировал и свалил. :) - Alex Bourt

"There’s a little-known iTunes Store URL that enables you to easily provide promo codes that can simply be clicked or tapped to be redeemed (replace “REPLACEWITHPROMOCODE” with the actual promo code): https://phobos.apple.com/WebObje... And the great thing is that these URLs work in both in iTunes on the user’s computers and on their iPhone/iPod touch devices. Help make life for people just a tad easier by using these links in the future." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

"Apple needs to make major changes to the Apple TV’s software and platform. That could include some or all of these options: * Opening Apple TV up to all Web video content, whether Apple controls it or not. (Rival Roku is heading in this direction with its $99 box.) Apple isn’t going to do that. Love it or leave it, Apple TV is a front-end to the iTunes Store and a player for open video and audio content (i.e. non-DRM-protected MP4 video and MP3 and AAC audio, synced from a Mac or PC on your home network). If you want access to everything, use a Mac Mini — more powerful, open to just about anything, but also a lot more fiddly. Apple TV is not a Mac, it’s a top-to-bottom Apple experience device." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet

@russkie знал что тебе понравится :) - Taras Brizitsky

Спасибо всем помогавшим готовить картинки :) - Juras Vetrau

"One of Those Classic Gartner Predictions From August 2006: Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through hardware-supported virtualisation." - Taras Brizitsky from Bookmarklet