Kev Mears's dashboard

Kev Mears replied on November 16, 2009 19:17 to the idea "Dropbox doesn't work too well with the Fontcase vault" in Bohemian Coding:

No worries. Thanks for the reply. Nearly perfect is good enough for me. It also seems that lots of people are asking dropbox to think of a solution, so fingers crossed..

Kev Mears replied on November 11, 2009 09:55 to the idea "Dropbox doesn't work too well with the Fontcase vault" in Bohemian Coding:

Hope there will be a fix for this (from someone) soon. Was one of the major features that I bought the product for.

Is there any way to retrieve this if my fonts have been changed in this way?

Kev Mears started following the problem "Dates on badge being reported as "January 1, 1970"" in bkkeepr.

Kev Mears started following the idea "Pickler enables syncing tracker stories with your cucumber feature files" in Pivotal Labs.

Kev Mears started following the idea "The option to chose or upload a cover for a book would be nice." in Readernaut.

Kev Mears replied on August 15, 2008 07:07 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

Cracking- just tried it. 130+ books added.

Cheers for doing this so quickly.

Kev Mears replied on August 14, 2008 15:51 to the discussion "Design First Impressions" in Readernaut:

I think you've misunderstood me - I think readernaut is very a distinctive and original design. I was saying that anobii strikes me as a bit 37 signals ish. (which I like) .

I suppose I'm saying I don't mind a bit of clutter if it offers me the functions I'm used to.

One little feature that do like is the number of books added that anobii has. That's be a good one to ne 'inspired by'.

Cheers

Kev Mears started a conversation in Readernaut on August 14, 2008 10:45:

Design First Impressions

I thought it might put my first impressions here. Trying to take my duties as a beta tester a bit more seriously than usual!

I like the treatment of the menu items on the left but think that perhaps the main panel might struggle to cope when one starts to get a lot of books. Maybe a no-cover listing option?

I liked the design when I logged in. But then I found it a little big for my taste. I couldn't help comparing it with the service I'm currently using which scales things down a little and manages to squeeze a lot of functionality in. In fact it is in turn, a little derivative , but i like the simplicity.

I've included a scaled down screengrab of the one I currently use.



Hope the feedback helps - don't want to come across as negative, but thought it might be useful to give my opinion.

Maybe others could weigh in with their views

Kev Mears replied on August 14, 2008 07:45 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

I'm using anobii.com, which allows export in 3 formats. csv,excel2003 or above and html

I can't see an option to upload a file here, but I'd be happy to send you my data.

Kev Mears shared an idea in Readernaut on August 13, 2008 21:26:

Bulk import of books

I've sent feedback, but thought I would add the feature request here too. Unless I'm missing something I don't see the ability to do a bulk add of my books from another service.

That would go a long way to suck me in!

Cheers

Kev Mears started following the idea "Good to have guides on usability testing to get started" in Clearleft.

Kev Mears asked a question in Joyent on October 04, 2007 21:45:

How does a novice benchmark the speed of their hosted site?

Kev Mears, an employee of University of Glamorgan, replied on October 02, 2007 21:46 to the question "Help us see the wood instead of just the trees" in University of Glamorgan:

Thanks Amy. I work at the Uni. I've just read the claim process, and it doesn't seem too scary and more importantly doesn't land me with lots of responsibility. So what the hell, I'll go for it!

Kev Mears, an employee of University of Glamorgan, asked a question in University of Glamorgan on October 01, 2007 18:48:

Help us see the wood instead of just the trees

Tell us what you think of our websites. Our most recent (and contentious) site is the staff site. Swing by and tell what we've done right and wrong.

Kev Mears shared an idea in ortlieb on September 27, 2007 13:38:

How about a HTML website?

I love my ortlieb products and the customer service I've had, but it'd be great and easier to spread the ortlieb word if your site wasn't in flash