Author Archives: Ahmet

About Ahmet

Husband and father of two, Swiss relocated in Seattle, WA. Program Manager in Bing Ads. Views and opinions expressed are mine.

My First Last Day :)

Today is my last day in the first 100% (non freelance) job I had. It’s funny to see how man can be attached to a team and to an environment. It was a great experience for me, they recruited me even before I finished my MS, 1 and 1/2 year ago. I learned a lot,… Read More »

iPhone 2.0 : 6+ cool Tips

#1 Taking a screenshot: Hold the ‘home’ button then hit the ‘power/sleep’ button #2 Saving an image from Safari: Tap on an image and hold, a pop up will display #3 More domain name extension: hold the ‘.com’ if you are in Safari or the ‘.’ button in mail composer, and you will be proposed… Read More »

Thinking in Flex

That may be a great news for all the newbie in Flex, accordign to MichaĂ«l Chaize, Bruce Eckel (the author from Thinking in Java) and James Ward are preparing a book for developers willing to learn Flex. Ahmet   0 Kudos Don'tmove!

AIR bundled in Acrobat Reader 9

A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn’t find any stats :(] it will certainly help… Read More »

Adobe offers to Google and Yahoo! Flash Player Technology – Is It Really A Good News?

I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ 🙂 But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen: […]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file… Read More »

Determining your User’s Cognitive Style: The Future of Web Design?

Really interesting article from Technology Review about a Paper written by John Hauser, Glen L. Urban, Guilherme Liberali and Michael Braun. It is about finding the user’s cognitive style (“a person’s preferred way of gathering, processing, and evaluating information”) by analyzing their pattern of click. In around 10 clicks the system can figure out whether… Read More »

Google AdSense is Down !?!

Must have been the first time I saw one of Google services being down… http://www.google.com/errors/asfe/system_down.html Now, who is going to pay for the adds not distributed 🙂 ? Ahmet   0 Kudos Don'tmove!

Bridges to Understanding

Just watched this great video from Phil Borges on ‘Documenting our endangered cultures’ at TED. I also love the idea of ‘Bridges to Understanding‘, take a look an act if possible 🙂 Ahmet   0 Kudos Don'tmove!

Adobe User Group Geneva: June 10 meeting at 6:30 pm

Comme convenu lors de notre dernière rencontre, la date pour la prochaine AUGG Ă  Ă©tĂ© fixĂ© au mardi 10 juin 2008 Ă  18:30 chez nos amis des Nomades. Le programme sortira un peu de l’ordinaire avec une prĂ©sentation de Florian Egger (PhD in Human-Computer Interaction), qui est Usability & User Experience Consultant, crĂ©ateur de Telono.com.… Read More »