CC on Twitter- Yay. Want to give @SIRIUS_XM_Radio money and their website is having issues. Given their financial condition that is odd...
- Hey Apple! Bring the color back to iTunes! This all-gray scheme stinks.
- Daughter: the tooth fairy didn't come last night! Wife: she's probably just running late. #parenting_fail
- Wow. iPad Twitter client is fantastic. See ya Twitterific.
- Crunch time at work http://bit.ly/9cFLXs
- Life is good http://bit.ly/9wEktu
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Category Archives: Design
Bye Bye Remember The Milk…
Today, after being a Remember the Milk customer for years, I gave up on them and closed my account. I paid up for a year of Toodledo Pro. I really loved RTM at one point. The user interface was … Continue reading
Posted in GTD, Technology, Useability, User Interface
Tagged GTD, Remember the Milk, RTM
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Web Browser Themes…Not Sure I Get It
I’ve been playing with the newest Chrome beta on my Mac for the past day or two and it is becoming an intriguing replacement for Safari (Firefox feels very sluggish to me). The one thing I was just playing with … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Technology, Useability, User Interface
Tagged browser, chrome, Firefox, themes
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Inappropriate Use of Metaphor
I’ve been reading quite a bit the last week on my iPad using both the Kindle reader app from Amazon as well as the iBook app from Apple and one thing has struck me as very odd: the page turn … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Design, Technology, User Interface, iPhone
Tagged iPad, metaphor, User Interface
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Pre-ordering the iPad is a fool’s game? Yeah right.
I know it’s an opinion piece but this article, reposted on Macworld, is really ridiculous. Buying a new kind of product sight unseen is foolish. Especially given how mysterious Apple has been on what the iPad can do and what restrictions … Continue reading
You’d have think they would have learned by now…
The Apple “press” (I use quotes because they really aren’t but sure seem like they’d like to be) never ceases to amaze me. What passes for two stories on The Unofficial Apple Weblog today: A story titled ‘Apple’s “renaissance” is … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Apple, Design, Mac, Technology, iPhone
Tagged iPhone, islate, lame stories, Mac, the unofficial apple weblog, tuaw
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Pimlical calendar software from Pimlico Software
I was reading a review of BusyCal for the Mac and Wolf Rentzsch reminded me of one of the features I absolutely *loved* from the DateBk Palm application from Pimlico: floating events. They were what they sound like…events that … Continue reading
Posted in General, Useability, User Interface
Tagged daring fireball, datebk, john gruber, pimlical, pimlico software, wolf rentzsch
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Objectified…
I watched a fabulous film on the PBS show Independent Lens called Objectified. In a nutshell the film explores industrial design and it’s impact on people’s lives. If you have any interest at all in the design of the objects … Continue reading
Flash: what’s all the fuss over?
Update: Here is a fantastic example of someone who has completely gone off the rails with respect to Flash… Wow…nothing generates conversation in the tech industry like Adobe Flash. In just the past couple of days I’ve read articles about … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Programming, Technology, User Interface, iPhone
Tagged Flash, html 5, iPhone
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Evernote Mac client sorely lacking
I’ve been using Evernote for awhile now. The Windows client is pretty good. The editor supports ordered/unordered lists, font types, color, etc. All of the expected things in a rich text editor are there. At the same time the Mac … Continue reading
Posted in General, Mac, Programming, Technology, Useability, User Interface
Tagged evernote, evernote client, Mac
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Gruber On: the Office 2011 for Mac “Save” Button
Over at Daring Fireball Gruber notes: Icon for the Save button is still a floppy disk, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t sold a machine with a floppy drive for a decade. So what do you suggest they put there … Continue reading →