Tag: Apple
Beatlemania II.
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My UX Superpower: Nothing Works!
Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After stints in academia, journalism, advertising, and music, I poured myself into web design in…
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Links for a Thursday
Free tool to create EOT Lite webfonts; interview with CSS web comic whiz; Apple exonerated of censoring iPhone dictionary; “a new breed of documentary photographers.”
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Apple OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macs
Apple OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macintosh computers, creating instability and preventing backups.
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Quick survey on OS X 10.5.7 bug triggers
Fellow Mac users, let’s see if we can isolate the triggers of the OS X 10.5.7 blues.
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SuperDuper! Mac Backup
Even if your computer craps out, there’s no reason to lose your work. Rated five stars on VersionTracker, SuperDuper! is the dead-simplest and most reliable backup program for Macintosh I know. With a click, it…
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Ready For My Closeup
Behind the scenes at a shoot for .Net Magazine.
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Phoneless
Cost to replace an out-of-warranty iPhone 1.0 with a refurbished version of the same model: $199. Minimum wait time: two hours. Cost to replace it with a “new” model: also $199. Minimum wait for that…
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Communication Marches On
A failure to connect.
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In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are… An iPod Classic containing 8624 “songs” (I like music) and 46 “movies.” Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A…
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Maybe that’s why they call them Kodak moments
It was the last day of our daughter’s first year of school. Party time. All the three-year-olds dressed like dolls; teachers relieved and sad; parents misty-eyed, promising to stay in touch over the summer. Moments…
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Usability problems with .Mac sync
I’m afraid this is another of those entries outlining bizarre design decisions and perplexing usability quirks in the otherwise brilliant world of Apple computers and phones
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Everything that can be iPhonelike, will be
The iPhone is too great a leap forward in interface design to be confined to, well, the iPhone.
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Morning has broken
A technological lament in eight Tweets.
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Messed update
Installed Tiger update 10.4.11 this morning, which mainly provides Safari 3, which cannot access web content. It quits on launch every time.
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iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
With this bug, the iPhone camera does everything a camera should do, except take pictures. It seems to obliterate photographic data the moment you snap the shutter. If you take five photos, you get five…