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Another industry standard is when you use an acronym somewhere for the first time you explain what it stands for no matter how technically competent the audience is....
In a forum? This is a casual discussion. I'll admit that I'm used to being around folks who are familiar with the field. I forget that this forum is read by those who aren't familiar with the industry. I participate in a lot of other forums where everyone just knows because it's an IT-related forum.
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Originally Posted by plwhit
By the way, UX in the IT world could also mean User Experience...
That's what I was using it for. UX is User Experience.
With links pretending to be attachments, I wonder what happens when the target file changes. We all know that with Dropbox, you're sending a link to the file as it exists, or will exist, when the user ultimately clicks to download it. We all know that if you actually attach a file to a message, then later edit the original file, the recipient gets the old version. So what happens here with "attaching" something that's really a link?
That's a very good question. I haven't used the service yet, but it will be one of the things I'll have to test.
In a forum? This is a casual discussion. I'll admit that I'm used to being around folks who are familiar with the field. I forget that this forum is read by those who aren't familiar with the industry. I participate in a lot of other forums where everyone just knows because it's an IT-related forum.
That's what I was using it for. UX is User Experience.
I wasn't writing an academic paper here. I'm posting in a forum. I'll be more considerate of those unfamiliar going forward.
Please do. I've been in IT a long time have never heard or used UX. I inferred it's meaning correctly, but I'm sure there are a number of posters here that wouldn't.
Please do. I've been in IT a long time have never heard or used UX. I inferred it's meaning correctly, but I'm sure there are a number of posters here that wouldn't.
BTW, sometimes UX SUX YKWIM?
Heh, heh, heh.
Noted. Thanks for the feedback.
In UX, there's a saying: "Everything sucks".
There's a good video from Seth Godin (TED talk) that captures an inherent problem of how little we've paid attention to user experience: Seth Godin: This is broken | Video on TED.com
My Firefox must be broken. I can't see a video referenced in the Interesting Websites thread and now I can't watch your video even though I downloaded and installed the latest Adobe Flash player.
Grrrrrr...
And forget it. I just tried again and the TED video plays. Jeez Louise!!!
Please do. I've been in IT a long time have never heard or used UX.
I was going to say the same thing.
Anyway: ON TOPIC.
Looks like DropBox has noticed. Got this email last night.
"Announcing Dropbox Links - The best way to share your stuff, ever.
Dropbox Links let you share files or folders (of any size) with anyone, even if they're not using Dropbox
Check it out!
Sharing files is a huge pain - you have to compress, attach, upload, and a bunch of other verbs that are a waste of your time. Forget that! We just invented the best way to get stuff from your computer to the rest of the world.
Happy Dropboxing!"
I assume this means you can send someone a link and they don't have to go through the site anymore.
Looks like DropBox has noticed. Got this email last night.
"Announcing Dropbox Links - The best way to share your stuff, ever.
Dropbox Links let you share files or folders (of any size) with anyone, even if they're not using Dropbox
Check it out!
Sharing files is a huge pain - you have to compress, attach, upload, and a bunch of other verbs that are a waste of your time. Forget that! We just invented the best way to get stuff from your computer to the rest of the world.
Happy Dropboxing!"
I assume this means you can send someone a link and they don't have to go through the site anymore.
But I've always been able to send someone a link to file on my Dropbox public folder. They just click it and don't need to log on, visit a site, or be a member.
But I've always been able to send someone a link to file on my Dropbox public folder. They just click it and don't need to log on, visit a site, or be a member.
Yea, it's been an existing feature of Dropbox. I guess they're just marketing it as a result of Google's announcement.
You need to realize that even though this is a computer forum a lot of posters aren't computer literate here. They come to CD looking for relocation information and discover they can also get help with their computer problems.
As I stated earlier, I've been in IT for a long time and had never heard it used. I'm not the only poster saying the same thing.
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