On Pixar and Easter Eggs

June 22nd, 2010

Holy crap, I love Pixar.

Speaking of iPhone 4 Reviews…

June 22nd, 2010

TUAW has a nice roundup of posted reviews, as does Mac Rumors. The guys over at Boy Genius Reports have a great hands-on, as does Engadget — coupled with Joshua Topolsky’s excellent review of the device.
A few things have struck me as I’ve read through these reviews — that this phone feels as good as [...]

On Toy Story 3

June 17th, 2010

Dan Kois at The Awl:
Which is all to say that the first eighty minutes of Toy Story 3 make up as funny, rousing, surprising, and exciting an adventure as you’re likely to see all year. And it’s also to say that nothing in those first eighty minutes prepared me for the final fifteen minutes, which [...]

On iOS App Icons

June 17th, 2010

Neven Mrgan:
It’s simply not possible to create excellent, detailed icons which can be arbitrarily scaled to very small dimensions while preserving clarity. Small icons are caricatures: they exaggerate some features, drop others, and align shapes to a sharp grid. Even if all icons could be executed as vectors, the largest size would never scale down [...]

iFixit Takes Apart New Mac mini

June 16th, 2010

Most impressive, but the need for a special tool to loosen the logic board is lame. I suppose it’s better than tearing into the Mac mini with a set of putty knives.

Mac mini Gets Major Overhaul

June 15th, 2010

Major points: Brand new (very slick) design, HDMI out, easy RAM access and an integrated power supply.
The removal bottom panel reminds me a lot of the iMac G4. The days of cracking these things open with putty knives are over.
Check it out.
Update: Engadget has a hands-on. The new Mac mini doesn’t look [...]

Up Close with Apple’s Retina Display

June 14th, 2010

Robert Scoble snagged this photo of the new iPhone’s display with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II during Apple’s hands-on event at WWDC last week. It looks amazing — be sure to view the original 5616 x 3744 shot.

Classic Macintosh Turned iPad Stand

June 10th, 2010

Holy cow. I’ve got a dead SE that is about to get hacked into pieces.

iPad, Meet Clamshell iBook

June 9th, 2010

Oh boy, this is sweet.

WebOS UI Designer Poached by Apple

June 9th, 2010

John Paczkowski:

WebOS interface designer Rich Dellinger has left the company to rejoin his former employer: Apple.
Dellinger, who was instrumental in developing Palm’s core Mojo app framework, as well as the webOS notification system, has returned to Apple, a company he previously worked for from 1999 to 2006. His new position: Senior user interface designer. Just [...]

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