Hay Facebook, Stop my video buffering.. I don't want to watch it anymore!

 As a part of social network, I use facebook almost daily for about 5-10 minutes and sometimes I do watch the videos posted by my friends :). Daily there are hundreds of videos posted/shared on facebook. While watching the video sometimes I discontinue watching one video and move on to other. But how do I stop playing the previous video? When I pause it, it stops playing but keeps on buffering causing the problem for my second video buffering. How do I stop buffering that video?

I searched for this on net and got the below link where you can stop the download for videos on youtube. But the "Stop download" option is hidden in the background and is available on right click.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/03/stop-buffering-youtube-video.html

 

This feature is more relevant on facebook as it shows more than one video at a time. 

SYNC my browser at different locations

While reading online either at office or at home, I came across one problem.


I have few tabs opened in my browser at office and I want to continue my reading at home without using any online bookmarking tool. I don’t want to open up the bookmark application, sign in, click on the URL and then continue reading the page. What if I have multiple tabs in a browser and want to access all those from a different location? How can I have a single shared interface which will give me a seamless user experience regardless of different locations? Will a online browser or a browser plug-in will solve my problem?

I discussed this problem with my colleagues and got to know about Firefox’s sync plug-in which does exactly what I wanted:)

http://mozillalabs.com/sync/what-are-the-main-features-of-weave/

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/faq.html

Spark "Send" Button

There is no Send button in Spark Messenger?

HFI Certification

I was waiting for a courier since last one month which I received it yesterday. I received my HFI certificate and stamp. I reached at home late evening. There were two couriers from HFI, one from Bangalore and one from Mumbai. I guessed one is a certificate and the other one is stamp.

I opened the certificate and it was a nicely laminated, shiny, thick certificate wrapped in two envelopes. I felt good reading my name on it.

I was more interested in the other package. I opened the box and found a stamp inside. I was impressed with the first sight of it. I checked the stamp from all the sides and felt the smooth surface of it. I took out some of the papers and stamped my name on it. I looked at the paper and my name on it.

After some time, suddenly a thought came in to my mind that this stamp is of no use for me. Where and when I am going to use it? What was the point sending this stamp to a person who works in the digital world and has hardly done any paper work since last so many years? How many of CUA’s have used it and how many times?

My expectations were something different. They would have provided a something like below image with name and certification name on it, which would have a hair band pin on the other side which we would have carried in the office wearing it on our shirts. We would have carried it to all Usability Conferences.

More thought should have gone through this gift.

What do you think?