October 2009

Does URL length matter?

Particularly in emails? I’m curious, and while I’m a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can’t find any evidence to support my hunch. If you’re sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them […]

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Microsoft VPC IE Images may require activation

I’ve written before about using Microsoft’s IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer. The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided

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