25 of Years of Apple Mice

December 22nd, 2009

This is pretty cool.
[via Cult of Mac]

NES Emulator Slips into App Store

December 21st, 2009

Sweet Moses, I’ve been waiting for this:
Kick it old school with games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Nescaline allows you to play a wide range of NES games on your iPhone and includes five public domain games developed as freeware. You may also use the download feature to add games to your library from [...]

‘As Necessary as a 73-wheeled Bicycle’

December 19th, 2009

John Welch on Adobe Reader and Apple’s Preview:
I don’t think that Adobe understands that there is a market for a lightweight application that does a minimum beyond viewing, and does so with a clean UI.
It’s not like all Preview does is let you view. You can do annotations, notes, add links, simple shapes, bookmarks, etc. You [...]

‘The Naughiest Of Fonts’

December 17th, 2009

Oh man.

On Mac UI

December 17th, 2009

Gruber:
When your defense of your Mac UI design is that Adobe and/or Firefox do it in their Mac apps too, you’ve got a problem.

The New iPhone iDisk Icon is Ugly

December 16th, 2009

Lots of fixes, though:
• Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file
• File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder
• When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app
• Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB (up from 200MB)
• Faster downloads
• Various [...]

Tablets Set to Kill Netbooks?

December 13th, 2009

Mike Elgan:

Netbooks suck for typing. Believe me. I’m a professional. One problem is that the keyboards are too cramped. But the other is that tiny netbooks force you to have the screen too close for comfortable reading.
A touch tablet is also a netbook. Just add a kickstand to prop up the screen and add a [...]

‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Guidelines Uncovered

December 13th, 2009

This is a very cool PDF.
Batman is the best superhero ever. Don’t write me and try to argue this one.

After Effects User Creates Awesome Bug Reports

December 12th, 2009

I love this stuff.

Letterbox, Snow Leopard Get Friendly

December 12th, 2009

Letterbox is a Mail plugin that moves the message portion of the window to the left of the mailbox, as opposed to under it, a la Outlook.
I’ve used it for years on my notebooks, where vertical space is at a premium. I have never used it on my iMac, where screen real estate is much [...]

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