Tag Archives: design

Reviews

A review of SimplyHired

SimplyHiredI’ve been using SimplyHired for the past few days, and wanted to share my impressions with you. The site is an aggregator. It pulls job listings from all of the major job sites and filters them for you based on your search criteria. At my latest check, they were indexing over 5,381,261 jobs. That’s a LOT of jobs!

I love the search by zipcode feature. I was able to punch that in, plus a keyword, and boom, I got a listing of all the jobs matching that keyword near my home. Beautiful! What’s also very cool is that the site’s using AJAX, so when you save something, the entire page doesn’t have to refresh.

Without creating an account, I was able to save jobs to look at them later. When I decided to create an account, those same jobs I’d saved showed up under it after I logged on. Nice!

You can rate jobs and put comments next to each, like, “applied 4/24/06”, which is what I did. (Incidentally, I’m looking for a job…) The jobs are then sorted automatically based on your rating, with the highest-rated ones bubbling up to the top.

The design is beautiful and clean. The color scheme is great. The functionality works better than advertised. What can I say, I love it!

Standard
Reviews

Google Pages, re-launched

Justin Rosenstein, Product Manager and Google Page Creator, posted an entry to the Google Blog a few days ago where he detailed the reason for the application. If my memory serves me right, Google Pages launched a few months ago, but access to it was withdrawn or limited in some way. Perhaps the Google folks thought it needed some more work. Anyway, Justin has just re-launched it, so I assume it’s now ready for public consumption.

Just tried it out, and it does seem to be a really easy way to create web pages, much like the .Mac service – except this is free, and there don’t appear to be any bandwidth limitations, at least none I can find. Then again, there isn’t the tight integration here that one finds on the .Mac service, such as with GarageBand or iPhoto, to allow for one-click publishing of podcasts or photos. Still, it’s a pretty cool service.

Here’s the link to the Google Blog entry, and here’s a link to Google Pages.

Standard
Reviews

Library design from salvaged passenger jets

Boing Boing has a link to a great design for a library from an architect firm. They’ve thought of using old bodies of airline jets, stacked and connected together, to create a cool, multi-level building. Nice!

From Boing Boing: “Xeni Jardin: Memepunks sez, Architects Lot-Ek have designed a public library made from the reclaimed fuselages of 727/737 passenger jets. The fuselages are the one part on an airliner that is more expensive to recycle than it is to just junk. Hundreds of old jet bodies litter the countryside, and now someone finally found a use for them…”

Let’s file this under cool, innovative ideas.

Standard
Reviews

Purse won't let you forget keys

Let’s file this one under cool inventions: “The latest user-friendly handbag signals its owner when a key item is missing.” Nice! Here is the link.

Standard
How To

New vistas in scientific visualization

From Apple Hot News: “UC Irvine’s HIPerWall, a new, record-breaking, 200-megapixel display system composed of 50 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays powered by 25 Power Mac G5s, allows scientists to visualize their ever-growing data sets with unprecedented clarity. [Apr 21, 2006]” This is pretty cool! Take a look at the photo. Unbelievable! 🙂 Here is the link.

Standard