Taking notice... it's a skill not everyone possesses, and possibly isn't one that everyone could develop, or become adept at, particularly down to the fine detail. Could provisioning for "super-noticing" lead to a new specialist branch in design, or technology development, the "investigative technologist"? It is ironic: people don't notice that noticing is important! Or that they're already doing it. It's kind of like breathing - we're not usually ... Read full entry

Though still in pre-release IETester sounds like a promising application that tests websites in a number of versions of Internet Explorer from IE 5.5 through to beta 1 of IE8. I've been playing around with it, and my god, disassociated looks terrible in IE 5.5 and 6, but I already knew that. While there's still work to do this is certainly looking promising. The "holy grail" of website testing per chance?

Get Your Non-Apple PC With Mac OS X Pre-installed Matthew Magain discusses the potential, and pitfalls (which include overcoming the legalities of installing certain Apple software on non Apple hardware), of the OSx86 Project, whereby Apple's OS X can be bought pre-installed on a Windows PC. What on earth for? Cross platform website testing of course. I've long held the view that an Apple Mac is the best machine to ... Read full entry