wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

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Archive for March 5th, 2004

Local search

Search in Lotus Notes sucks. I have over 20,000 emails saved and I need the ability to search them google style. Here’s an app that has made the case for switching to Outlook much stronger.

X1 Search for Windows
This, combined with lookout and search folders in Outlook should make life much easier.

Encrypted IM

Secure (relatively) communication using instant messengers such as MSN Messenger and AOL instant messenger. This should have been built into the products in the first place.

Acer Ferrari 3000

Engadget has been giving me my daily geek fix of cool gadgets since gizmodo dropped the ball. Today’s “don’t need it, but really want it” entry is this Ferrari branded laptop by Acer. Stop that drooling already.

Striped tables

A list apart has a good (visual) explanation of the usability benefits of striped tables. I wonder how well this will scale when I have more than three table areas in a product UI? Too much clutter with all the zebra stripes?

Salary survey for designers

A summary of salaries and benefits for web designers, copywriters, art directors, managers and owners by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and Communication Arts. White paper here.
Nice presentation. At least I know what to expect if I were to switch careers
via MeFi.

Cricket mania

Normally I couldn’t care less about cricket, even after having grown up in a culture obsessed by the game. But this article still left me laughing.
Pakistan is a country that has never lacked great drama – in the past few months alone its president was nearly blown up, twice, its nuclear scientists were exposed as [...]

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