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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: Excel "Comment" Bubbles Need to be Improved

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Excel "Comment" Bubbles Need to be Improved. It's about time that Microsoft improve the "Comments" functionality in Excel:. Wow Just plain ugly. Shooting from the hip:. That shadow technique (angled lines) is a bit.dated. Rounded would be much better, especially given the grid-like nature of Excel. Rounded corners would create a nice contrast to the rest of the display. 8 ways to tug / pull / stretch? I'm located in Los Angeles.

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: Video 3 of 4: Difference of Business Development Responsibilities During the Early Stages of a Startup

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Monday, August 20, 2012. Video 3 of 4: Difference of Business Development Responsibilities During the Early Stages of a Startup. I was recently invited by the team at Docstoc. To participate in their "expert" video series, meant to help small business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals. This is part 3 of 4. Here I talk about the difference in biz dev responsibilities during the beta stage and growth stage of a startup:. While I work on ideas for my next startup, I...

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: July 2015

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Please see the Iteration Group blog. This is an old blog. With occasional posts from 1999 to 2012. Please see the Iteration Group blog. Where the team and I post about User Experience, Product Development, Web Design, Mobile App Design, and related topics. I build, launch, and grow technology startups. I co-founded Zumbox and Academy123. While I work on ideas for my next startup, I'm helping other founders get theirs off the ground.

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: July 2011

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Tuesday, July 19, 2011. The problem is we don't understand the problem". Aza Raskin, the talented user interface designer (and son of the original designer for Macintosh, Jef Raskin. Shares a really insightful short story. That suggests how we should go about tackling "deeply difficult challenges.". Aza goes on to talk about a man named Paul MacCready. Who sought out to build the first human-powered airplane. From the article:. Hundreds of videos are re-done each week.

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: WinDirStat - See treemap of your file system, easily find big files

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Friday, August 10, 2012. WinDirStat - See treemap of your file system, easily find big files. Is still a really great tool, even after all these years. Very useful! I don't know of any other way of quickly and intuitively finding out what's taking up my disk space. Perfect use of the treemap visualization. I build, launch, and grow technology startups. I co-founded Zumbox and Academy123. This usually starts by helping them nail their product strategy and specs.

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: February 2012

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Monday, February 20, 2012. Stop Using Lorem Ipsum! I think I've discovered a handy way of summing-up how I think about designing user interfaces: No Lorem Ipsum. A Symptom of a Bigger Problem: Lazy Product Design. Lorem Ipsum isn't always. Bad It's often useful in "marketing pages" - places where you want to indicate there will be a few paragraphs of text here, a sentence or two there, etc. But when designing interfaces? Find out early so you can design accordingly.

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: April 2011

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Idea: Building a Better World Meeting Planner. I'm often having meetings (phone calls, really) with folks on the other side of the planet (Europe, Asia, Australia, etc.). Rather than thinking too much and trying to convert time zones in my head (and inevitably screwing things up), I turn to sites like The World Clock Meeting Planner. Results from The World Clock Meeting Planner. While it's I might. Allow me to type the first few characters of ...

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: vCard utility for Gmail / Google Apps that auto-imports?

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. VCard utility for Gmail / Google Apps that auto-imports? Does anyone know if there is a vCard utility for Gmail / Google Apps? For those who don't know, vCard. Vcf) is a file format standard for business cards used in lots of apps, both desktop and web-based. For example, if you're using LinkedIn, you'll see an an icon that lets you easily download a vCard for the contact that you're looking at:. Go to Gmail Contacts. While I believe that...

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab...: Video 4 of 4: Strategies for Early Stage Companies to Be Successful at Trade Shows & Conferences

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Yarone Goren - Tinkering in the lab. Monday, August 20, 2012. Video 4 of 4: Strategies for Early Stage Companies to Be Successful at Trade Shows and Conferences. I was recently invited by the team at Docstoc. To participate in their "expert" video series, meant to help small business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals. This is part 4 of 4. In this last video, I bring up ways for startups to be effective at trade shows:. Don't get a booth. Expensive: space, booth itself, manning it, etc.