Autosave in games

Earlier today I played Batman Arkham Asylum for a while and quit at some point. I’m about 80% through and just started the game to finish it tonight. No can do: corrupt save and that was that as there is only one save slot per “game”. The reason apparently is that I shut my Xbox [...]

Cloning a Running Windows 2008 Server to a Virtual Machine

I’m ready to migrate my 1½ year old Windows 2008 installation to a virtual machine and finding out about the options run into Disk2vhd. It’s made by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft and what it does is snapshot of any drive to a VHD, virtual hard disk. The cool thing is that you can clone [...]

User experience

I’ve been reading Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox columns since late 90s and developed kind of usability nazi attitude. Not the worst characteristic to have as users rarely have enough advocates. However I’ve come to realize that there is a false dichotomy between usability and graphic design as there is only one user experience. Both need to [...]