10 Useful Findings About How People View Websites Eyetracking and research have studied how people look at websites. Here are 10 useful findings you can use. 1. Top left corner gets the attention first When users land on your site, their eye path starts from the upper left corner, and moves on from there. According to this eyetracking study these areas get the most attention: Similar findings came from a study by Yahoo. Are you familiar with the Gutenberg diagram? Image credit The fourth, bottom right terminal area is where you should place your call to action. Designers can download a useful Gutenberg Diagram PSD overlay here. 2. Most people don’t read, but scan. Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read website content in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. Image credit This is why you want your value proposition in the top and why your menu should be either top horizontal or on the left, vertical. How to design for F-patterns? A similar study called this the golden triangle. 3. 4. 5. 6.
42 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed No doubt your summer celebrations this weekend will leave you little time to catch up on reading. To help you out, we've compiled a handy roundup of this week's most helpful, informative and inspiring stories. We've celebrated iPhone's birthday, we've pondered celebrity impact on social good, and we've laughed over geeky gadgets. This week Mashable overflowed with engaging content. Editors' Picks HOW TO: Manage Your Online Reputation Using SEOWhile you might not be able to remove damaging content from the Internet, there's a good chance you can minimize its impact using simple SEO techniques.Meet the People Who Scored Twitter's Shortest UsernamesHere's a look at the users who snagged premium social real estate with the shortest Twitter usernames on Earth. Social Media
10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills - StumbleUpon Solving programming puzzles is a fun way to develop your logical and problem solving abilities. Also, when you’re familiarizing yourself with a new programming language, solving puzzles for that language can help speed up the learning process. Here are the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills. 1. Programming Praxis is a blog that includes a range of interesting problems with solutions usually available in several different programming languages. 2. CodeKata is a blog of programming puzzles written by Dave Thomas, who’s most famous for the groundbreaking book, Pragmatic Programmer. 3. TopCoder is an active programming community of developers who love to solve puzzles. 4. 5. Facebook has a collection of very challenging programming puzzles that–should you manage to solve them–could result in you getting a job at Facebook! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 99 Prolog Problems * Bonus: Mind Cipher
20 Useful OS X Tips Because we are all different, operating system developers always put more than one way of doing things in their systems. One example is there’s often keyboard shortcuts, menus and toolbars in applications for doing the same thing. Consequently, it’s very easy to get into the habit of doing things a particular way without ever learning other ways. Hopefully for the average user there might be at least one tip here that you weren’t aware of and that will be useful to you. By the way, if you have a single button mouse, where it says “right click”, substitute with “control-click” . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. The Option key is a hidden treasure trove. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Now, if you are like “The Hackmeister of OS X”, rather than scoffing, let us know a few of your favorite lesser known tips.
Dan Rodney's List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes For years I’ve collected these keystrokes. I hope they help you become the power user that lies within. I have tested them on Mac OS X El Capitan, but most should work on older versions of Mac OS (such as Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion). After macOS Sierra comes out I will update as needed! Menu Symbols Finder App Switcher Managing Windows & Dialogs Dock Dashboard Working with Text Only work in some apps (Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc.) Screenshots Saved to the Desktop as a PNG file. Spotlight Mission Control Startup, Restart, Shutdown & Sleep Safari Apple Mail Preview Miscellaneous Emacs Key Bindings Only work in some apps (Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc.)
25 Useful Ubuntu Shortcuts To Make your Life Easier Sponsored Links Earlier, i have posted about useful windows shortcuts. This time, i have compiled a list of 25 useful Ubuntu shortcuts (not those commonly known Ctrl+C type shortcuts) that make your life easier. Ubuntu Recently, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released and i must say this version of Ubuntu has improved a lot over earlier versions. Here goes the shortcuts list. Window Management Note: Some shortcuts might require Compiz enabled on your Ubuntu system. Switch Workspaces in Ubuntu (win + E) 1. 2. 3. 4. Ubuntu Window Switcher (Alt + Shift+ Up Arrow) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Nautilus 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Miscellaneous 22. 23. 24. 25. I hope these shortcuts will make your life easier doing routine repetitive tasks and make you more productive using your Ubuntu System. If you know of some other useful Ubuntu shortcuts, feel free to share them in comments below. PS: Welcome StumbleUpon Users
Windows 7 Sticky Notes Tips, Tricks, Backup, Restore, Format, FAQ If you are a regular Windows 7 | 8 sticky notes user, you might find these tips & tricks to use, format, backup and restore handy. It also tells you how to turn the Sticky Note delete confirmation box, back on, in case you have turned it off earlier. To open a new Sticky Note, type sticky in start search and hit Enter.To change its size, drag it from its bottom right corner.To change its color, right click the note and then click the color you want.To create a new sticky note, click on the ‘+‘ sign in its top left corner.To close a sticky note, right click on its taskbar icon and select ‘Close window’.To delete a sticky note click on the ‘x‘ mark in its top right corner. Once its running and you start making notes, you can use the following keyboard shortcut keys to format its text: Select the text where required, and then press the desired keys: 1. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc of course work as usual. Backup and Restore Sticky Notes Turn the Sticky Note delete warning back on
101 Free admin tools We know administrators love tools that make life easier – especially when they’re free! So here are 101 of them! System and network analysis 1. Using this MMC snap-in you can quickly visualize the user and group permissions of a local or remote folder or drive in a hierarchical format to help identify problems. 2. Wi-Fi Inspector is a powerful Wi-Fi management and troubleshooting tool that allows you to locate and verify Wi-Fi devices, detect rogue Access Points, troubleshoot connections, and search for Wi-Fi networks. 3. Whois performs a lookup of the registration information of a given IP address or domain name. 4. ShareEnum allows you to scan and view the security settings of file shares on your network. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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