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84 CommentsIt’s been a while since I happily flamed and subsequently ditched iTunes in favor of Floola for adding stuff to my otherwise beloved iPod Shuffle 2G. Alas, Floola — while able to add stuff to the iPod — is neither able to update it nor not crash intermittently. So I decided to try iTunes one last time. I shouldn’t have, because I was reminded how much iTunes on Windows absolutely fucking sucks.
CommentMulti-touch trackpad. For me, that was the most interesting aspect of the just-announced-days-ago Apple Macbook Air. Unlike normal trackpads, a multi-touch trackpad also accepts input from two or more fingers. Before, you could only point, now you can pinch, swipe and turn; any gesture that requires more than one digit (or person).
2 CommentsGoogle has started rolling out colored labels in Gmail. It’s smart, I like it a lot, especially how removing a label is now no longer an option in a pulldown menu, but actually related to the label you’re removing. I am, however, ready for a label manager redesign. The whole “search don’t sort” thing, at times, seems a bit too smart compared to good ol’ folders.
CommentNow this is a multi-touch interface. I particuarly liked his comment on the interface seen in Minority Report.
3 CommentsIt’s made the rounds by now, but it’s still a good collection of stupid interface decisions in Mac OSX Leopard. My props to Apple for allowing users to choose a simpler dock design than the “wet desktop” one. Now if only they’d allow you to turn off the dock altogether. Also, the folder icon designs seem like a step back from the OSX Tiger style.
7 CommentsAn increasingly prevalent problem in this age of smart webpages (dubbed “Web 2.0″ by the marketing department) is the visualization of inline links. That is, links that when clicked immediately change part of the page you’re looking at, as opposed to slowly loading a whole different page.
11 CommentsIt’s been around, probably, since the dawn of the mouse. The double-click has become synonymous with “open”. The purpose of the double-click is to allow one to do two things with the same button. So far this has meant that single-click selects, double-click opens. It’s worked so well and has become so ubiquitous that it’s been a while since anyone thought it could be different. Even so, I’ll bet my mouse that we won’t be double-clicking in 5 years.
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Apple just redesigned their website. Along with that, they’ve released a few videos of Leopard, the next version of OSX.
Some interesting pieces from the desktop videodespises the dock. In any case, it looks like Apple really shines with their incremental improvements. Still no fullscreen, though.
4 CommentsSo Microsoft just unveiled “Surface“. It’s a table with a flat screen that’s sensitive to multiple pointers (fingers). It’s pretty much what we’ve Apple does wants to do with the iPhone, except larger.
This seems to spell the arrival of multi-touch interfaces and I think it’s great. How long untill I’ve got this on my work-table as an addition to my mouse? Not soon enough, I’m sure.
21 CommentsDespite what I’ve said in the past, I do not despise the Mac. I like many things about the Mac — the look of the hardware, the clean and crispness of the operating system, the modern feel it exudes.
But it’s not all strawberries and sunshine. Criticizing means caring.