I’m not a painter at all, but a friend showed me ArtRage, which is a painter software. They made a really nice and clean interface.

Download a free trial version and try it by yourself from the ArtRage home.
There is no .swf export but there is a .psd export, which can be afterward published in [...]

Some pictures I took from my trip in Turkey, a wonderful land.

Copyright Metah 2006

More pictures from my archives

[...]At the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, researchers are developing a system that will use the tongue as the interface[...]
[...]Everything nowadays is so ubiquitous with mobile computing, and we need to find new, hands-free ways of interacting for environments where your hands and eyes are busy[...]

From Sci-Tech Today

In no particular order here are some link to usability resources, don’t hesitate to complete it ;)
Flash Usability
Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s Newsletter
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability News
Usability News 2/
Usability News 3/
Adaptive path » user experience publications
Web Pages That Suck
Web Design from Scratch
InfoDesign
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites
Usability Research Lab
WebWord
Usability Views
Webcredible
Isys Information Architects
Universal Usability in Practice
Guild of [...]

I found on digg a new post about Web 2.0 design. I must admit that I’m a bit lost with Web 2.0. For me Web 2.0 is a new paradigm in how the user will interact with the web and not a new paradigm on how will the information be presented to the user. There [...]

Finally I managed to finish (or something that look like finish) the new version of my website. My old one was really a mess !
I hope this version is clearer than the old one. I hesitated a lot before publishing it, as always doing new project gives me new perspectives to webdesign, and the time [...]

M$ gain my interest more and more (they started low …), it’s seems they are willing to increase the quality of the webservices they are offering. Live.com is working, and is an interesting concept. At least they prove use they want to be in the game now. The Live ideas is full of beta (13), [...]

There are new books from Friendsofed,
And 2 did attire me greatly. I’ve already download the E-books ;)
The first talk about my this time preferred topics :
Flash Application Design Solutions: The Flash Usability Handbook
Flash Application Design Solutions shows you how to harness the power of ActionScript 2.0 and make the most of the improved [...]

Nice method to build dynamic width pages for widescreen webuser.
See the tutorial.

Nice website that tracks the ethical reputation of multinational companies.
[...]Thousands of positive and negative > news are quantified, coded and synthetized into dynamic curves and rankings. This ethical quotation system allows stakeholders to raise companies awareness by > transmitting information towards the public and financial markets[...]
That a nice idea isn’t it ?
See it.