Just One Other Thing

Use Profile Picture As Emoticon in Facebook Chat

by Vishal Mehta May 11, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Facebook Chat Allows Profile Picture As Emoticon Facebook allows you to insert profile picture of anyone in the chat window. It’s a nice little feature to make the chat more picturesque. The convention is to type as: [[profile-id]] OR [[profile-name]]. Everyone’s profile page URL contains either the id or the name; for example: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1499865610 OR [...]

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GoDaddy Domain Smart Search

by Vishal Mehta May 4, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Domain Search on GoDaddy When you search for a domain name on Godaddy, it displays instantly a series of smart results, based on the most common extensions people choose. The feature is very functional and easy in that the users do not have to navigate back and forth for search options and re-do it. The [...]

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LinkedIn iPad App Has a Privacy Hole

by Vishal Mehta May 3, 2012 Applications

Article first published as LinkedIn iPad App Has a Privacy Hole on Technorati. LinkedIn launched an App on iPad recently. How does it fare in experience as compared to browsing LinkedIn online? LinkedIn has sadly managed to create a disconnected quality between both experiences – from a browser vs through the App. It is inconsistent [...]

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Smiley

by Vishal Mehta April 23, 2012 Applications

Smiley in Communication In this new age, early “warmth” is exchanged between newly formed acquaintances, in hope of building quick relationships. Smileys and other emoticons that we used only with close friends, family and blind dates (!!) now find place even in semi-formal and formal situations. What came off-age during Instant Messenger days, now is [...]

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Tilted Google

by Vishal Mehta April 7, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Tilted Google Experience This is probably old, although for me it’s a recent discovery. Google continues to be the king when it comes to a superior web experience with a superior sense of humor. Google “tilt” and see the subtly tilted search results…just one other thing!

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Phantom Keys on iPad

by Vishal Mehta April 6, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Phantom Keys! By now all iPad users must have knowingly or accidentally (like me) experienced the usable genius of “split” keyboard while typing. Another accidental discovery of mine was the availability of hidden or phantom keys at the edge of the split keyboard – further enhancing user experience of natural typing. This has been covered by a [...]

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Warning That Traffic Light Will Change

by Vishal Mehta April 2, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Traffic Light User Experience Just 2 days ago, I witnessed an interesting “functional” character in Traffic Light system during my business trip to Bangalore. I have seen almost all places where non-digitized lights are present – ones that do not have timer display, the drivers do not get any signs of when the “Stop” is [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for GMail

by Vishal Mehta March 25, 2012 Just One Other Thing

GMail Shortcuts Many of you might know this already – pressing ‘?’ (question mark symbol) on your keyboard when signed in to GMail (and not typing) brings up a nice pop-up with all keyboard shortcuts. By default, the keyboard shortcuts are disabled, so the pop-up displays an option to enable them, from top-left corner. It’s [...]

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Preview on Google Images

by Vishal Mehta March 17, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Google Preview When you do a Google Image search, you see a list of related searches just above the search results. When you hover the mouse over any of the related search keywords, Google shows a nice preview of respective images. Neat, useful experience!

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HootSuite Snooze

by Vishal Mehta February 28, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Ignore HootSuite application for some time; when you return, you have to “wake it up!” to use again. Nice little user experience!

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