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www.uZable.com: UI Enhancements

 
 

Of uZable.com, Blackbox, and whatever happened here.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
-Apurva Roy Choudhury
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I guess there is some explaination to do here. We started uZable.com to support a community of desktop enhancers. BlackBox was (and still is) our tool of choice, to hack and enhance desktops. We built a comprehensive platform for everything BlackBox, and it was pretty much satisfying the needs of a small but faithful set of users, but soon, there was nothing much left to do. While people did release a lot of BlackBox themes, and updates to the plugins, nothing much really happened in the community. There was not much that we could do. Hence we decided to move on. the BlackBox community continues @ blackbox.uzable.com, while uZable.com has been transformed to a blog / playground where we will distribute and talk about our hacks, tools, apps and our crusades with user interface enhancements.

Lately we have been totally hooked on to the concept of desktop gadgets. What are desktop gadgets? well, stick around and you shall find out. to start with we are going to release a free desktop gadget, which you can already see us talking about all over the place.



 Comments

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 : 9:56 PM
Oh and I forgot to talk about the most obvious change here, the site design! I have used the new clean glassy look and feel that is going to be my new UI design style for some time now.

Damn! Rating is a required field! Saf! We need to fix this! What should i now rate my own post? hmm... the image with rating 3 looks good... :P
Rating:  - Apurva

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 : 10:12 PM
Hmm........ I didn't get on the whole Blackbox wagon, but kudos to you guys!

As regards, me and my wagon, give me DesktopX any time. All respect to the shmoooooooooothness!
Rating:  - Dhiraj

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 : 12:04 PM
Finally the BlackBox guys get their well deserved explanation!

Apurva and Saf,

I want to request a feature with regards to commenting...
while posting the comment, i would also like to see the blog post that i am commenting on.
Hmm...now is that asking too much?
Rating:  - Romasha

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 : 3:38 PM
Hmmm you are right Apurva. I think we should seprate out ratings & comments. Or we can include '0' rating option, which we can ignore while calculating the over all rating of the post.

Romasha I am afraid we dont have this feature in current version. But the point has been noted & hopefully will implemented in next version.
Rating:  - saf

Friday, March 03, 2006 : 3:09 AM
One more thing....... while the comments section looks real neat....... I found it a bit interesting trying to identify who made what comment.

Some usability considerations? A little *more* gap between comments, perhaps? Maybe with could shift the commenter's name to the left side and it would be more identifiable?
Rating:  - Dhiraj

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