Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
ArsTechnica author Peter Bright, has penned a beauty. What Microsoft could learn from Apple, is a lengthy, well thought out and pride inducing piece on the history, design decisions and development opportunities of both the MS Windows OS and the Apple Mac OSX platforms. The first three parts can be found at these three links and there, apparently, is a fourth part in the works.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
While a lot of the in-depth OS structures and conventions flew a little over my head, I did immensely enjoy the parts discussing the GUI’s of each system. Basic gist, Apple eats it’s own dog food. Another way of saying that not only did they develop a core set of values and design decisions, they practice what they preach by applying those decisions across the board to their own projects. This gives a clear message to programmers of third party apps that they should follow Apples lead. And in the end, you know what? It leads to a nicer looking and more usable OS for all users!
Well done with the words good sir. Keep up the good work.
Tags: Apple, decisions, Design, mac, programming, windows
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
So I recently discovered Wx through a post by John Gruber on DNS lookups. Funny roundabout way to find out about a really sweet weather tracking app but hey….whachya gonna do?
Wx is a mac app that tracks up to 20 different weather points, complete with radar and the works, it is amazing. Many thanks go to Craig Hunter the developer.
I was loading it with weather stations this morning and I noticed that there is a menu option to email the developer:
What a cool idea. And what a way to really take ownership of an app. I guess in Craig’s case, being the sole developer, it makes perfect sense but for any small group developing apps (desktop or web) I’d love to see the same degree of openness and ownership. Give the users an easy way to yell in your ear, good or bad.
Tags: cool feature, Craig Hunter, Design, John Gruber, mac app, Wx
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
In this weeks Advertising Age there is an article about how Mac owners are generally more arrogant than PC owners. The article goes on to site that Mac owners are more likely to buy organic food, more likely to drive hybrid cars, more likely to own station wagons and are generally “eco greenies”. It continues to say that Mac owners are more liberal, less dogmatic and more open and comfortable both socially and politically.
I think that someone missed the point. Anyways, who wouldn’t want to be counted as having most of these qualities. And as for being Eco-Minded Greenies, I think that all of America should take note…
Really, this is top quality journalism. America’s finest. Maybe even Pulitzer winning stuff. Hopefully this is ad age’s attempt at sarcasm.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Whoa…
check it out here.
Only thing that bothers me (as person locked into Verizon’s sub-standard and sub-cool network) is that it will probably only be available on AT&T or T-Mobile.
Via Signal vs. Noise and Daring Fireball.
Tags: garmin, gps, iphone, mobile phone, phone
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Anyone want to buy me one? …No? …Well don’t all jump at once.
…ungrateful bums.
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