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New desktop usability project springing up.

Beter desktop a Nowel sponsored usability testing site/blog. What is interesting are videos of people using desktop and linux apps. Tango project aim’s to provide comon icon theme for different desktops. Normaly I wouln’t care (there are some some shared themes allready) but this project seems to have support from some wery well known linux people.

I wonder why stop at icon theme and not support projects like qtgtk wich integrates parts of kde into gtk apps, or qtk-qtk themer, whitch makes gtk apps use kde themes.

Why not build single basic theme engine (or engince spec) for use by all desktop’s ? It worked for menus, taskbars and others.

google hits - Do it yourself trend analyser

google hits From the site: Track the amount of google search results for keywords you define.

This is a nifty python utility by Ricardo Niederberger Cabral that tracks number of hits (or estimated hits) google returns for your keywords.

It makes it easy to make trend analyses of keywords (tags) you are interested in.

It would be even better if we know how google estimates number of results since as Kevin Dangoor points out that doesn’t necessary show number of actually results.

It would be interesting to see weather we could plug in other search engines or blog searches.

Did riaa dig it’s own hole ? These article seem to indicate that.
Not that i trust Apple to be any batter than recording industry, if and when it will suit them

MobHappy: Tide Turning Against Copy Protection?

How The Recording Industry’s Obsession On DRM Made Apple So Powerful

The recording industry’s new clothes

Personaly i am not so sure about Aplle beeing big enough, it might have by far the biggest online market, but market itself still isn’t that big (or yes its big, but potential of growth is ewen bigger).

I guess we will have to wait and see.