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Paste and Match Style

This should be a standard shortcut on OS X. It is going to save me hundreds of hours.

Posted on February 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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I’m no security expert but not allowing special characters is just silly

The worst part is this is from a major bank, Fidelity.

Posted on February 15, 2011 at 11:00 am by nickdenardis · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Twitter A/B Testing “Find People”

I oversee a few different Twitter accounts, @nickdenardis, @educheckup, and @waynestate just to name a few and usually have them all open throughout the day. I noticed something interesting today, they are running an A/B test on the wording of a link in the top bar. The feature, although recently reactivated on the #newtwitter design, has [...]

Posted on November 22, 2010 at 2:37 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · 5 Comments
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Screenshots of the #newtwitter

Since everyone is anxiously awaiting their migration to the #newtwitter, including myself, I thought I would share what the interface looks like. Logging in this morning I discovered my university account @waynestate was migrated so I took the oportunity to share some screen shots. I haven’t had time to play with it too much so [...]

Posted on September 17, 2010 at 9:16 am by nickdenardis · Permalink · One Comment
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Form Errors – Validating phone numbers and the importance of hand testing

Nothing replaces hand testing forms I fill out a lot of forms during the day, some on existing sites and others as new internal forms that need review. When testing I have a habit of submitting forms with every error combination possible. I know there are automated tools for this but nothing beats seeing it [...]

Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:40 am by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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