Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Jeff Atwood inspired me to write this. It's a parody of this Logging in with the Keyboard Post and I've tried to keep it word for word, just on a different topic. Hope you don't mind Jeff!
The standard address bar is in every browser window.
As much as we see the address bar every day, you'd think we would have mastered them by now. Unfortunately, we haven't. Here's what I've observed users doing, over and over again:
Every time I watch someone do this, a little part of me dies inside. And I see it all the time.
I'm not just talking about casual users like our parents. I'm talking about our fellow software developers, and other users who work with the computer for most of the day. People who really should know better.
What kills me about this is all the needless, painful keystrokes. You've needlessly entered "www." and ".com" millions of times-- just add a little control-Enter to the mix! I'm no keyboard Nazi. All I want is to save users a few precious seconds of their day as they slog through the endless web pages during their work day. And it's so darn easy:
See? Wasn't that nice? Now it's your turn to play Keyboard Appleseed and spread the word so your fellow coworkers can spend less time logging in-- and more time getting actual work done.
Sidenote: Mac IE was much smarter in this respect. All you had to do was type "google" enter and it did the rest. No big deal you say? Well you could type "shahine/omar" and it would take you to www.shahine.com/omar. If you try that in Win IE you get http://www.shahine/omar.com. Not smart.