on Life and Livingness - by Tom

On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. more

CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies. more

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web. Also vanquished at almost exactly the same time was the Western European encoding. more

Here is a link to a web design expert’s usability site. This week’s article features a couple of points near and dear to my soul. here

They exactly mirror the advice in a book I purchased twenty years ago called “Communicating or Just Making Pretty Shapes” by Colin Wheildon. It is a must read for anyone having anything to do with creating marketing or promotional material.

I am learning more about cascading style shhets and came across this post.

A reader writes: “I have four slots for DDR2 memory. How do you set up the system for dual-channel or single-channel? Which is faster?” here

Cross-site scripting, also known as “XSS,” is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. more

Just read some posts on theming web sites over here

Intel has laid out its future product roadmap, including a forthcoming six-core upgrade to its Xeon processor line, details of its next micro-architecture codenamed Nehalem, future 32nm chips, and technology with which it plans to meet requirements for high-performance graphics and visualisation. more

Depending on how representative designers are of the target audience, a project might need more or less user testing. Still, usability concerns never go away completely. more

YouTube, Google Inc’s popular video sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes. more

Jacob Nielsen has some great tips for developers… here

Notorious hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has released a web auditing tool which uses Google to find vulnerabilities on sites. more

A great article from Jacob Nielsen on mistakes to avoid when designing applications: here…