Drag and drop Screenshots in linux? June 8, 2007
Posted by hunterp in linux, mac, UI.1 comment so far
Taking screenshots are an intensely valuable asset in a computing workforce. On a mac, I can press ctrl-alt-shift-f4 and drag my mouse to take a screenshot directly into the clipboard. Then in a mail, or IM program I can directly paste it. This is basically two steps.
In linux, I have to take a screenshot. Crop it in gimp. Then manually include it in an thunderbird, and I can’t even see the image. This is way to many steps.
So is there a way to do this on linux?
Flash is probably better than html December 29, 2006
Posted by hunterp in HTML, UI, web.3 comments
Why is flash better than html? In principle: because there are no browsers to deal with; you are guaranteed a uniform environment everywhere its run, SIMPLE. Java was supposed to be this and it may still be, but its always been slow and bulky and flash seems to have a better marketing team. I think thats why flash has had a better GUI IDE for GUI’s long before java, but for java, I like’s eclipse’s RCP
Some of the big boys using flash:
http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband/
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=GOOG
I realize how crazy this sounds, and I am truly sorry for saying what I’m about to say, but I think that having a well established software mono-culture CAN be useful.
WYSIWYG HTML Editor August 12, 2006
Posted by hunterp in HTML, UI, WYSIWYG.add a comment
Dreamweaver was ok, but theres no apparent way to quickly get started by giving it an html to open (eg load all dependency pages).
FCKeditor has an intuitive interface and lots of features,someone should make a firefox plugin that lets you enter a live page and quickly get started. But its a little hard to work with tables.
NVU was decent, but it did not handle frames and I couldn’t edit select boxes. I would guess with 95% that NVU is a port of mozilla’s composer, which did not do much.
Codetech was pretty weak.
