90 percent of everything : Usability Blog

Written by Harry Brignull

I’ve just discovered pagegangster – a very flashy Flash viewer for PDFs. You upload your PDF, in return pagegangster gives you a magazine-style UI where you can flip through pages, zoom, and do searches. it’s all very nifty looking.

While it’s a quick and cool looking way to get your content webified, it’s no replacement for a real website. I’m with Jakob Nielsen on this. Having said that, if you have a bunch of PDFs and you don’t have the time or resources to create a real site, pagegangster is a good solution.

I’ve just switched from mac Office 2004 to iWork ’08. I mainly liking it, though I spent about 30 minutes yesterday thinking I was going mad over this mail attachment issue – you can’t attach Keynote and Pages files to your emails. I kept thinking I was having network problems but actually, all you need to do is zip them before attaching them.

This is because Keynote and Pages files are ‘packages’. [ Read more here ]

For silver surfers and people who are only just getting to grip with email attachments (e.g. my parents), this is going to be a serious problem. In fact, I think I’m going to switch my parents form iWork to NeoOffice for this reason.