n800 code & diablo HOWTO

Howto reinstall diablo n800 in linux
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

Official maemo page: Other HOWTOs
http://wiki.maemo.org/?highlight=%252528CategoryFlashing%252529

Reset nokia n800 password
i was able to find the password in /dev/mtd* ...


Install KDE
http://geekpenguin.blogspot.com/2007/09/kde-on-it.html

Proceedings in HCI

http://www.interaction-design.org/references/conferences/proceedings_of_the_hci08_conference_on_people_and_computers_xxii.html


http://www.interaction-design.org/references/conferences/proceedings_of_the_21st_annual_acm_symposium_on_user_interface_software_and_technology.html

Seen on slashdot: checkbox humor

slashdot posting form

Slashdot Posting Form v0.1
Please select all that apply:

....
[ ] IANAL but ____
[ ] XKCD link : ___
[ ] Bash quote: ____
[ ] There, fixed that for you
[ ] In soviet russia the _____'s YOU
[ ] sudo _____ > /dev/null
[ ] Get off my lawn
....
[ ] Cory Doctrow
[ ] Al gore
[ ] Natalie Portman
....

a.k.a. checkbox humour

Semiótica y diseño de interacción

The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction

"Semiotics has a reputation for being difficult, abstract, and obtuse. This is most unfortunate, for as Clarisse de Souza illustrates in this powerful book, semiotics offers a compelling and novel viewpoint. It is common to think of interaction between a person and technology as communication with the technology. De Souza shows that the real communication is between designer and person, where the technology is the medium. Once designs are thought of as shared communication and technologies as media, the entire design philosophy changes radically, but in a positive and constructive way. This book has changed my thinking: read it and change yours."
—Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Emotional Design

Tipos de menú contextual

Aza Raskin

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/firefox-mobile-concept-video/

Crear Wireframes con Firefox

Firefox Pencil Project
http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/

Un plugin para Firefox que permite crear prototipos de interacción (wireframes)

Formas de aprendizaje de uso de una interfaz

UI Design Newsletter – June, 2009

Do age and experience impact interaction with devices?

Here's what they notated about strategies during their observations:

1. Systematic exploration – people are testing and evaluating hypotheses about how the device works and then making plans for the next action to take.
2. Trial and error – less logical than systematic exploration, people are trying various actions without a plan
3. Rigid exploration – repetitive actions without meaningful outcomes, people are doing the same things over and over even if they don't work; there is a lack of self reflection
4. Encapsulation – Focused information searching without an progress in task flow; people continue to search for information even though they aren't making progress in getting the task done

Concept evaluation y diseño industrial

Un cusro de diseño industrial en pdf -

Concept evaluation

Maemo Nokia n800 alternate browser

Browser navegador alternativo para el n800, basado en Webkit.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=254590&postcount=133

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=862

Estrategias para evaluar la credibilidad de un sitio web

Crap Detection 101

"Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him."
Ernest Hemingway, 1954

Hash: Password checkword

Métodos y código/programas javascript para generar códigos hash a partir de claves.

Puede servir para programar una extensión Firefox para la usabilidad de formularios de login (mostrando la checkword para comprobar si ha habido errores al teclear)

http://wijjo.com/PasswordHasher
http://hashapass.com/
http://wijjo.com/passhash/passhash.html

Por qué PIM es difícil (de los creadores de Haystack)

How and Why Information eludes our Personal Information Management Tools ?

Recopilación de Métodos de Usabilidad

Smart.fm - aprender sin darse cuenta

http://smart.fm/ es una web para aprender un idioma, o una lección, en pequeñas dosis.

Security vs usability in login passwords

Jakob Nielsen has a recent Alertbox against obscuring passwords with ****asterisks****. Some people has proposed several solutions, but none of them is both secure and usable. I think I've found a solution that is both.

Thinking of this as an information problem instead of (just) a security one,
what is needed to solve it is something like the hash codes as used in
cryptography.

You don't really need to show the *whole* password, just enough
information derived from it so that the user will notice if there was
an error. For an example on how it could work:

- Say, the chosen password is HOMELAND.
- As a simple hash, remove every second letter: HMLN
- Shift each letter one character down: GLKM
- For this result to be usable, combine each obtained letter with the
nearest vowel: GILOKOMO

If the user mistypes the password, a different check-word will be produced.
For example: HOPELAMD -> HPLM -> GOKL -> GIOUKOLO *error, the
password is wrong.


Of course, a real hash function should be used that utilizes *all* the
information in the original password, not half of it! The important
property of a hash function is that the original information can't be
recovered from it, so the password is safe. Much better for security
than a plain-text exposed password, isn't it?

This process has a small usability problem in that you'll have to
learn the check-word for every new used password, but login is such a
repetitive procedure that this learning should happen quickly.

Password field design solutions

3 soluciones para campos de login con contraseña usables.

http://www.viget.com/advance/password-fields-are-annoying/