Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Faster page loads and URLs
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Pages that link from the autocomplete UI should load much faster now. Pages that are loaded are static, however, updates (additional shortcuts) are updated every hour; votes made by users count, however, new tallies are only refreshed every hour as well. Application URLs now appear in this format: company/application/version#.#/keyboard-shortcuts/ There's a link ...
Users are a fan of ratings, who knew?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I announced about a week ago the new rating system for shortcuts. During the past week over 5900+ votes have been cast. Shortly (no pun intended), the site will feature a page that has the top 20 most voted applications.
Site Feedback
Monday, July 14th, 2008If you're interested in provided feedback about ShortcutGuide, please post comments below, or join the discussion Free-Space.Net. I've already made some changes to the site based on the feedback I recieved.
Google Experimental Search
Friday, July 11th, 2008Google is working on some innovative ways to represent information and navigate search results. They have three experimental versions of their interface (Alternate views for search results, Keyword suggestions, and Keyboard shortcuts). Using shortcuts to navigate search results is heavenly. You can go to previous and ...
Hosting upgrade
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The site was down for an hour or so today as we upgraded the current hosting plan. ShortcutGuide is now on a virtual private server instead of shared hosting. There is a significant performance increase in page load time. Additionally, instead of static HTML pages that were pre-generated, we've gone ...
Main site refresh - Introducing Tabbed Shortcuts
Sunday, June 29th, 2008No need to fear for those that love the Virtual Keyboard--it's still accessible. There are several updates to the main page 1) All shortcuts are now tabular (based on categories). The default is "All," but you can filter as you like 2) Upper right hand corner is an Add This ...
Add Shortcuts AutoComplete
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The most difficult problem facing ShortcutGuide is data acquisition (sourcing). If we can create a UI that allows people to enter shortcuts faster, I would venture to guess that more people would 1) enter in shortcuts 2) enter more of them. Hence the UI change below. When Adding Shortcuts to ...
ShortcutGuide path forward
Sunday, June 29th, 2008In the last four months feature development stopped and the site was put on hold until some other activities I've been working on could be completed (moving to a new place, ISACA conference talk, IP3 security seminar I delivered, etc.). So enough excuses. I plan to slowly roll out some ...
UI change - find even keyboard shortcuts faster
Friday, February 8th, 2008We're working hard to improve the UI. After scoping some alternatives we've settled on a new AJAX control from Yahoo's UI framework. Hope you like it.