Category: Apple
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Design Lessons from iPad
It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…
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Clark on Apple’s weak type
Apple has a typography desk. It is not exactly crowded with developers vying for every square centimetre, but it really exists. Have you ever heard of it? … Then compare Microsoft, which has two divisions…
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Opera loves my web font
And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…
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The dog ate my bookmarks
It’s been years (or is it weeks?) since something odd, implausible, and inexplicable happened to one or more of my Apple computers that doesn’t happen to anyone else’s. You know you want to hear this.…
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Screw the haters
Tasteful and true: iPad wallpaper by Anders J. Svensson at Veer’s The Skinny.
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Betting on the web
Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…
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Ahem
The first part of my post of 1 February was not an attack on Flash. It described a way of working with Flash that also supports users who don’t have access to Flash. I’ve followed…
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Flash, iPad, Standards
Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash…
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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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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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OS X 10.5.7 update: unsafe at any speed
Apple’s OS X 10.5.7 update is dangerously unpredictable. Although many Mac users have updated without incident, many others, including me, have had nothing but trouble.
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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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Desktop No. 211
In the tradition of our classic 1990s wallpapers, please enjoy Zeldman Desktop No. 211 for your home or office screen beautification needs.
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Ready For My Closeup
Behind the scenes at a shoot for .Net Magazine.