Last month I started thinking that I’ve been reading way too little. I wanted something for the soul, and something I could reread more than once. The choice fell on a book by Edward Tufte (Edward Tufte), “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. I love all sorts of things …

Why doesn’t Lingvo have a “Tweet” button? I’d use it.

Many of us write various kinds of documentation in English. That includes presentations, user guides, help files, and just plain blog posts. I’m the same way. We teach people with screencasts, where you have to explain what’s happening on the screen. The scripts contain a lot of descriptions …

“If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants” Isaac Newton

After the research topic for an article (see “On Choosing a Topic for a Research Paper”) or for a term paper, thesis, or dissertation has been defined, you need to work …

Let’s talk about Kharkiv news. But not about events in our glorious city—about Internet news services. Since I rarely get to watch TV the window into Hell, I subscribed to several online news feeds. Let’s go through each of them.

• Media Group “Objective” The quality of the …

So I’m checking the blg’s visitor stats in the morning and I see:

Who would have thought people read from iPads more often than from Windows NT. By the way, Other Unix is probably Ubuntu. I knew it: they don’t count that distro as Linux.

I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.

One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …

The most important difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP is that the operating system’s user interface started turning its back to the forest and its front to the user. One interesting example is shown in the figure below. Windows, besides automatically changing the clocks, also uses the speech …

I’ve been using Microsoft Outlook for a long time, but only now noticed this little detail. The “Received” and “Size” columns aren’t aligned by place value. With dates and times it’s not so bad, but with size it’s a complete mess.

Do the designers at Microsoft …

Our university, where I spent 11 years of my life, like any other university, has its own corporate website http://kture.kharkov.ua and corporate email in the domain of the same name. Surely from the title of the post and the first paragraph you’ve already figured out what …