People like clicking; after all, wasn’t the mouse the main piece of hardware that lead to the GUI and made computers more accessible?

But people don’t like repetitive, boring tasks. And one of the areas where this is done especially poorly is when performing batch operations on large sets of data, where the user has to go through several stages to …

I came across Search Engine Optimization for Dummies on Amazon today: After a quick tweet fuelled by my thoughts on the topic, I thought that I should perhaps elaborate on exactly what I meant.
I’m all for optimizing your website so that it is searchable; for example, from a development point of view you can do things like:

“prettify” URLs
create semantic page …

The other day I was using Cyberduck more heavily than I would usually, when I was doing a whole load of uploading. When I came to close the application, I was presented with this dialog:

It’s a fair enough dialog, I have been using free software which someone put their own time into and I’m appreciative, and might think of donating …

I have talked about piracy before, but I was inspired by Matt Gemmell’s take on it in Episode #9 of the MDN Show:
Piracy is pretty much an unsolvable problem. That’s a controversial thing to say, but I don’t mean it’s absolutely technically unsolvable, but it’s one of these situations where you have diminishing returns. The better your protection, the better …