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	<title>&#124;  DEFUNC : UX Design &#038; Tech Thoughts</title>
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		<title>User experience inside and out: The strategy of persuasive design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brilliant webcast over at Human Factors International about how the Internet has created a &#8220;self-service&#8221; mindset. Employees (inside) and consumers (outside) expect to find information and complete tasks on their own. User-centered design makes it easy for them to do so.
Yet just because someone can do something, it doesn&#8217;t mean that they will.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/pastwebcast.asp#insideout 
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Usability Methods Reference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah yeah - we know - usability and user research is important. We always get told it, but in reality it isnt that easy to get your company or those of clients you are consulting with to get on board with the idea. For when you do or are trying to sell it through, sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Creative commons - Audio, visual, text &#038; images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever it is you need, the guys and gals over at creative commons have got it for you to use. Basically Creative CommonsÂ &#8221; provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Anywhere, anytime flight info with FlightCHECK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new product has just been launced over at YouTXT - its called FlightCHECK.
Based on the same simple principles of providing useful information quickly  and easily through TXT, FlightCHECK is an anytime, anywhere flight checking  tool. Giving realtime access to any flight arriving or departing NZ. It can be  accessed over at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Automatic logout - good or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When an updat is rolled out across a system or across a site there is an expected down time. However when we are dealing with the world wide web there is no 3am at the same time everywhere - so what are you options? 
Online there is either a site message such as, &#8220;We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Another multi-IE test tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to let you all know there is a new IE testing tool out there over at :Â http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePageÂ This is another option instead of installing the MultipleIE Â standalone versions. Hopefully it will be out of beta soon, and also look at supporting other browsers too. It would be a perfect world to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Hotmail out for the count on Firefox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a major player doesn&#8217;t support major browsers what does one think, other head in the sand. Hotmail has been slow loading and throwing un-responsive javascript errors for a long time now in Firefox on a PC using winxp and now it just doesnt load at all.I have a lot of respect for testers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=96</link>
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		<title>NEW BBC homepage at its best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just took a look at the BBC website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/Â ) and was pleasantly surprised! Personalised information, with docking of news snippets, and a host of other features. If you haven&#8217;t checked it out yet take a gander. It is definately the top of its field in terms of user personalisation, beautiful layout, and ease of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Scroll a DIV on the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are numourous ways and Javascripts out there to sort out a scrolling panel. Although when it comes to getting one that works on a Safari Browser in the iPhone when a double finger action is usedÂ to initiateÂ theÂ scroll action item - well then it is a bit tougher. Iframes, JS heavy scrolling divs etc are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Build an iPhone App/Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was just reading the article over on SlashdotÂ Â and found the best link to a UI library to easily create a iPhone enabled site. * The section Using iUI and creating iPhone views points outThe iUI framework, based on Joe Hewittâ€™s iPhone navigation work, hugely simplifies iPhone web development. All you need to do is include [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=93</link>
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		<title>Google Image Search - soon to be ad enriched!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Google is looking to lift their slowing profits by monetizing another product. Google image search is about to introduce image Ads. Good news for people wanting to sell through image ad inventory, but as John over at AOL highlights,  there is a copyright ownership problem with displaying advertising with images, isn&#8217;t there?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Creating high performance sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a common aim to make your sites faster and leaner and Nate KoetchleyÂ from Yahoo! did an exemplar job of providing the grind andÂ grunt of whatÂ peopleÂ have to do to help make their sitesÂ leaner and meaner. Check out his slides from the presentation he gave last year. They are highly relevant and at the end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Test test and test again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A frustrating thing for any web developer or tester is having to have multiple browsers and multiple versionsÂ of suchÂ running to properly test applications.Â That doesnt really seem that bad until youÂ have the lovely task of watching one install over write another etc. Then came along Multiple IE from tredsoft :Â http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Now I know it isn&#8217;t that new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Twittering getting too much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant idea over at Twittersnooze. When you have too many follows to manage and some of them are at a conference or just annoying your mobile inbox - snooze them for a few days and take a breather.
Â Kind of like a nice way to give the kids to the grandparents for the weekend without any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Skype for the iPhone is here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love it, love it love it - http://www.fring.com/iphone/
Isreali company Fring has brought its VoIP application, also called Fring, to the iPhone. The free application will work on any jailbreaken&#8217;d iPhone or iPod Touch, and along with Fring&#8217;s own VoIP service it integrates Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ and SIP (for voice and chat) plus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Photoshop .ico plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well finally I have found it. A free plugin that allows you to create ico files directly from photoshop.
Check it out over at : http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/icoformat/trunk/dist/README.htmlÂ 
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		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Jobs.ie Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It happens all the time, but whenever it does it makes you wonder what has really been taken. The great thing is that Jobs.ie did face up to the fact and were good enough to tell people like myself, that our information was stolen. Communication in all emergencies or critical breaches of online systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Do you really care about being tracked?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Begging the question, how much do you care when people actually track you without you knowing. A NY Assemblyman is pushing for a law to use personal information about  consumers for advertising without their consent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/business/media/20adco.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin
DO you really care if someone tracks you. Is it not better to get targeted ads you might want compared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>IE6 Duplicating content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well - shouldn&#8217;t write about ie6 bugs anymore but thought was worth a mention to the kids over at http://www.positioniseverything.net. Once again they have provided the only real working solution for the ie6 only bug of randomly copying content elsewhere and writing it out on the page even though it does not show up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Speed matters.. Now google is forcing people to care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google will begin penalizing advertisers whose landing pages take a long time to load, reports CNET. A post on its AdWords Blog reports Google will start looking at the length of time it takes for a landing page to load.
Loading speed will contribute to an advertiser&#8217;s ultimate ad position and bid price on the Adwords [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://defunc.com/blog/?p=83</link>
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