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We are struggling with this right now on a school web site. Mailto forms cause problems with web based email clients, but contact forms provide a way for anyone to send an anonymous email to a school. Most of the time that's fine, but there's that small percentage of time when the email is harrassing, abusive, threatening, and/or inappropriate. I wish ...
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A lot of application designers - and I am one - suffer from the delusion that their application is the most important application that a user has the privilege of running on their system. They simply cannot imagine that a user would not want keep their application running. Or auto starting for that matter. So, they come up with tricks like minimizing on ...
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Skype (and other communication applications) need to keep running in the background in order to be able to receive messages and calls.
For communication applications (and a few other application categories, antivirus for example), this is - as far as I know - pretty much standard behavior.
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The checkbox way is simple and effective. But a switch, something like this:
Might just do the work.
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There isn't any, because "computer proficiency" is a vague term. Is a programmer more computer proficient than a secretary who can lay out a colorful document in Word? Something as vague as computer proficiency cannot be measured and therefore cannot be part of a useful research question.
So, you need to make your proficiency test specific to the thing ...
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'Show Password' accompanied with a checkbox is clearly the standard and the best most effetive way to communicate it even though it's not saving as much space as an icon.
On another note, looking for an example, I just looked at gmail, facebook, instagram, amazon, ebay, trello, yahoo, twitter, codebase and podio and none of them had a 'show password' ...
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The most effective way that I have seen is to use text. Simply have a checkbox that says "show password" or "hide password". It's clear and everyone understands it.
However, it's also becoming increasingly common to use the eye symbol as "show password", so if I had to chose a symbol and not text, I would use an eye icon.
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Skype, being a peer-to-peer telecoms application, works much like BitTorrent and other P2P distribution methods by relying on users' own machines and internet connections to route the traffic of other people's calls. This means that, as a Skype user, your machine is being used to facilitate other people's connections even when you aren't making a call ...
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In OSX it is very common for closing a window to not remove the application from the dock. In many applications the window represents a document in the application, while the application itself doesn't have a window. There are also applications like iTunes and Spotify, that don't require a window to continue to play music. Skype doesn't need to have a window ...
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I believe this application (Skype) and many other communication type applications including instant-messengers, email clients and other VOIP apps, hi-jack the "X" button to minimize the more user-frustrating event of accidentally ending a users communication session. In many cases, users might simply want to get the application of the screen, the fastest and ...
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Skype is not the only application which does that. This is a standard behavior of Mac OS applications too.
When you select the 'x' on the window, you are closing the window. Closing windows has different meaning in different applications, in chrome, you are effectively closing all your tabs, but in itunes or outlook, you are effectively just minimizing the ...
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