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Design Critique: Products for People
Add FeedDesign Critique encourages usable product designs for a better customer experience. Using principles and experience from our careers helping clients and employers create usable products, we critique software and hardware based on long-term experience with them in our own lives. We also interview our peers in the user experience-related fields of User-Centered Design (UCD), human-computer interaction (HCI), usability engineering, information architecture, technical communication, interaction design, customer research, and more! All while maintaining a light-hearted spirit of inquiry about how we can improve the world by designing products that serve people better. Tim and Tom debate the merits of the Sony Shower CD Radio, model ICF-CD73V. Topics include the difficulty of designing for a complex audience, and the need for buffers in electronics so they remember things like: point last played on a CD, their settings when batteries are changed, and a few seconds of music to compensate for bump-induced skips during playback.
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Learn Russian | RussianPod101.com
Add FeedRussianPod101.com is an innovative and fun way of learning the Russian language and culture at your own convenience and pace. Our language training system consists of free daily podcast audio lessons, a premium learning center, and a vibrant user community. Stop by RussianPod101.com today to learn more! Improve Pronunciation, Fluency! Drastically improve your pronunciation with the voice recording tool in the premium learning center. Record your voice with a click of a button, and playback what you record just as easily. This tool is the perfect complement to the line-by-line audio. Russian: Эрик: Привет, Анна! Анна: Привет, Эрик! Как дела? Эрик: Всё нормално. А у тебя? Анна: Хорошo, cпасибо. English Erik: Hi, Anna! Anna: Hi, Erik! How are you? Erik: I'm doing alright. And you? Anna: Good, thanks. Stop by http://www.russianpod101.com/ for the most comprehensive, user friendly, helpful, and interactive language learning resource on the internet!
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GLOBAL 3000: The Globalization Program
Add FeedGLOBAL 3000 – DW-TV’s new globalisation magazine looks at the issues that are moving us today, and shows how people are living with the opportunities and risks of globalisation. GLOBAL 3000 gives globalisation a face. During the Kosovo War nine years ago, many of the people from Pristina fled abroad. One of them is Naim Bunjuka. Naim Bunjaku is a radio host, journalist, and singer who lives and works in Pristina, Kosovo. We asked him what globalization means to him, what he hopes the future will bring, and what keeps him up at night.
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Category5 Technology TV - Episodes (HD 720p)
Add FeedLinux, Windows and general technology. A weekly live TV-style show. Watch, ask questions, get live, free answers.
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Diet.com Health, Fitness & Nutrition Video Podcasts/VodCasts
Add FeedThe latest videos in Healthy Living, Dieting, Nutrition, Exercise and Fitness.
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A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch
Add FeedCome join me in my garden! Share my trials and tribulations as I garden in Southern California with occasional audio and video interviews and visits to gardens. The Troy-Bilt TB154 Electric CultivatorListen to this review Watch video of the cultivator in use When I moved to Los Angeles 22 years ago, I left behind my grandmother's ½ acre garden and our own ¼ acre plot behind the house. I thought little of gardening for almost 10 years. Some people are good with houseplants. I am not one of them. So gardening was fondly remembered as something I did way back when. It seemed like everyone in my hometown (New London, Ohio, pop. 2600) tended a garden and I spent my childhood with a hoe in my hand, riding a lawn mower, behind huge rototillers and eventually driving tractors around our small farm. Finally, twelve years ago we purchased our first home and inherited a 10 year old, quite mature, garden. My wife and I typically tended the garden with shovel and hoe, but when I received an offer from Troy-Bilt to review some of their products, I jumped at the opportunity. We have a variety of beds on the property and after 12 years they could all use a bit of TLC. I thought an electric cultivator could help a lot. The Troy-Bilt TB145 Electric Cultivator(Click to get more info from the Troy-Bilt web site) arrived in a box about 4'x 2' we found on the porch one day after returning from Little League practice. I was eager to try it out, so like a typical user, I opened it up, set the owner's manual aside (of course) and put the cultivator to use. The only assembly required was attaching the handle, which took about 5 minutes and no tools. The first task was a rose bed that, after being dug up for a sewer line replacement, was buried in tall grass. I had used a hoe to clean out the bed once already and couldn't face doing it by hand again. Thankfully this tool arrived just in time. I was immediately surprised by the power in this small electric unit. I could easily pick it up with one hand, but it was cutting through the grass and quickly cultivating the bed to to 6" or more. Since it is so small, maneuvering it around the existing rose bushes was no problem. The bed itself is probably only about 3 feet wide, bordered by a cement block wall on one side and rustic wooden edging on the other. The long grass would occasionally wind up around the tines, but the cultivator is designed with quick release pins on each end that allowed me to simply pull off the tines, remove the grass and get right back to work. Managing the electrical cord is always a concern with a device like this. (I have cut the extension cord with my hedge trimmers at least 3 times (!!!). The cable management is well designed with a simple clip to hold the extension cord towards the back of the unit and along the handle so it is always in your sight and within easy reach of your hands. For me, personally, this is a great unit that fits well with my environment and I already have 4-5 more jobs waiting for it. The next weekend we brought out the cultivator to work up another small bed where we planned to put some tomato plants. I had picked up 3 seedlings from Tomatomania (Watch the video) in nearby Encino and was eager to get them, and a small pot of basil, into the ground. This bed was even narrower than the first and surrounded by cement on two sides and the stucco of the house on the other. I thought about taking the outside tines off the unit, but the full width ended up being fine. On this bed, I first laid out about 6 cubic feet of compost recently harvested from our old compost bin and then used the cultivator to work this into the existing soil. Again, the unit did a great job and quickly we had a nice, fluffy bed for the tomatoes. The tines handled the inevitable contact with the edges of the cement driveway with no ill effects. The blades showed no damage and simply bounced off the cement. Overall, the cultivator works well as an all-purpose cultivator for a small to medium-sized garden. Those with large expanses of open garden would probably opt for a bigger, gas-powered unit. The TB145 would also be an excellent "second machine" for small beds and hard to reach areas such as annual beds, shrub beds and cultivating between rows in a small vegetable garden. For me, personally, this is a great unit that fits well with my environment and I already have 4-5 more jobs waiting for it. Link: Troy-Bilt TB154 Electric Cultivator Specs and Information at TroyBilt.com
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