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Where are the HCI open journals?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I am searching through open source science projects, among other things, for a paper I’m working on with Daniel Lemire. A guildie gave me a list of open source projects (it’s good to be in a guild with a bunch of researchers), among which is the Directory of Open Access Journals, which lists over three […]

ECSCW 2007 Proceedings

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Yay! You can access the proceedings of ECSCW 2007 here, and it’s free.

VirtualBox

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Here’s a tool that John Nash pointed me to that should be really useful if you need to test things in various OSes: VirtualBox is an open source virtualization product that can run on Windows, Linux or Mac and supports quite a large number of guest OSes. Nice.

Ooh! Free designs!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

If you know me, you’ll know that I’m cheap, cheap, cheap!(*) So, of course, I’m all over free stuff. Here’s one that is free and gorgeous: the Open Source Web Design. Lots of good-looking designs for your web site.
I’m thinking of changing the design on this web site for something a bit less busy. Maybe […]

Interesting Web 2.0 applications

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Were you at the premiere networking meeting for the Ottawa Usability Consortium yesterday night? Or were you busy watching the Sens get beaten?
If you chose the hockey game, you missed an interesting night of networking and a short talk about Web 2.0.
It’s hard to keep track of all the Web 2.0 applications that keep appearing […]

Snipshot

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Now this is a useful web-based tool: Snipshot lets you do some basic editing of your images and it even lets you save directly to Flickr. I’ve had a few situations where I wanted to upload a picture but it was too big for the website and I didn’t have anything like Photoshop on the […]

Continuing education

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

I love free stuff, and I love learning, so LifeHacker has the perfect combination for me: Get a Free College Education Online. Uh, yeah, that title is somewhat misleading, cause this ain’t gonna git you a fancy-schmancy degree. But for adult education, this seems like a great solution, especially if you don’t live close to […]

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