This article written by Joshua of Bokardo.com really is a good read and very informative. Every single line makes a great sense and creates awareness about design. The site also provides many other resourceful articles hence I’m rolling it now. Whoever interested in design should take note of the mentioned 5 principles.

• Technology Serves Humans
• Design is not Art
• The Experience Belongs to the User
• Great Design is Invisible
• Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

Do read through each principle significance, it’s really worth reading.

I’m not gonna post music pick anymore. I’m getting bored with music posting at the moment, plus I got a couple of comments from a few friends that I’m supporting piracy publicly. Well…I kind of did, but just for fun sharing among friends and mean no harm. Those songs are already on the web elsewhere and I’m just replicating. More like promotional purpose. Anyways, since I want my site to be clean, I better take a good advice and don’t do anything silly. Okie dokie, bye bye.

Sharepoint Experts – Dustin Miller provides us with a demo site featuring 20 server admin templates.

It’s a great help for us as we can check out all the features of each site template on live demo version. Login information is also provided there. I haven’t test out WSS V3 yet, but I heard it improves alot from the previous version. May be I’ll check it properly when the next sharepoint project comes in.

View V3 Demo Site here. | via: The Boiler Room

I’m in love with the new LCDs. They got 19″ Lenovo L192 Wide Tft monitors for their IT section. Last time they have pretty cool IBM flat screens and now upgraded with Lenovo wide screens.

The Lenovo L192 Wide Monitor offers users to view images in a 16 x 10 wide aspect ratio. It is available in business black. This monitor is best suited for complex spreadsheets, multitasking, general business applications and multiple-monitor environments.

Features & Benefits:

• 19-inch (483-mm) viewable image size
• Optimum resolution: 1440 x 900
• Tilt stand for viewing comfort adjustments
• 16 x 10 aspect ratio
• Analog attachment
• Internal power
• Meets 100 mm VESA requirement

Specifications: Lenovo L192 Wide Monitor

I hook it up with my ugly laptop screen and use it as dual extended monitor.
What a sensational sight! hehe

This one give 5 minutes FREE call per day just from your browser. You only need a small flash plugin to add to your browser and you are all set to go. By registering to their site, you get extra 5min and total of 10 minutes of FREE calling per day.

Gizmo Call is a modernized way to make web-based calls developed by the team who brought you the Gizmo Project voice and IM software, as well as the SIPphone VoIP platform, a robust network and directory for efficiently carrying VoIP calls. www.gizmocall.com

I’ve tried to Singapore and Australia numbers, they all work like a charm. The voice quality is quite alrite too but can’t talk in unison. When I try myanmar number, I got this reply.

Sorry, We intentionally block calls to this country.

It’ll be abit nicer if the message goes like “Sorry, we don’t provide service to this country” or something like that but they use that “intentionally block” phrase. Man, that was just so mean.

I haven’t tested for Fiji numbers as I can do local calls easily but I’m sure it works fine. Oh when you register, don’t enter the last text-box ie. Enter your phone number, otherwise you cannot click on “register” button. Only when you remove it, the button becomes active. Anyways it’s pretty good if you wanna test calls to friends overseas. Enjoy calling. Call me too?

Lately you see lots of snap preview popups on websites mainly on wordpress.com sites and getting really annoyed with it. It blocks the link view and somewhat messy when you got numerous close links. I guess snap is good for portfolio kind of websites and shouldn’t apply it to all the links on your site but to only particular section. Anyway now you can disable snap by a click of a mouse.

Here is how: Disable Snap Preview Anywhere. | Via: Kottke

Arh so IE + Firefox = MS Firefox

+ =

Such an ugly icon. The fox now looks like a lobster with one mustache. Also it got such a long name – “Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition“. What’s up with MS and their long versions? Professional version, developer version, standard version, etc.

The combination of Microsoft’s power and might along with Firefox’s extensive fan database will create one of the world’s largest, most innovative and diversified browsers ever. The acquisition brings together two of the industry’s strongest contenders and is the most ubiquitous incorporation of technologies for creating, managing and delivering compelling spyware and viral experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media (Subject to Microsoft Compatibility).

Features

• Simplified User Experience
• Amazing Marginal Manipulation
• Instant Search Box
• Favorites Center
• RSS (Real Simple Sex)
• Tabbed Browsing
• Quick Tabs
• Tab Groups
• Page Zoom, etc..etc..

So now what? Do we ditch recent IE7 and replace with this MSFF? Anymore IE series to come? hmm…
Full Features | Get MS Firefox 2007 Professional Edition

Don’t feel like testing it yet. Kinda ZzzZz..Zzz at the moment. Let me know how it goes if you tested it.