Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001.
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com

Webdesigner #316: “Just Get A Mac” (Mac vs. PC Round 2, TwentyTen Edition)

    15:54 on January 08th, 2010 , , , ,

Slowly, one by one, my colleagues are switching out their desktop PCs with portable Macs. Except for me. Consistently, I’m suggested to “just get a Mac already”, implying the OSXperience will change my life for the better.
Here’s where I think it will change my life for the better, and where it won’t.
Pros of getting a [...]

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A Window With A Chrome Finish

    13:42 on July 08th, 2009 , , , , , , , , ,

The once-mythical GooOS has materialized, and it’s carved in Chrome. Google has just announced that they’re entering the operating system arena with their own offering, Google Chrome OS. Here are the facts:

Linux-core
Initially targeted for Netbooks, later also for full size desktops
New windowing system
Focused on getting you on the web quickly
Open source
Will run on x86 (Intel) [...]

Like Tabs In the Rain: How Safari 4s Tabs-On-Top Could Have Worked

    21:45 on June 10th, 2009 , , , , , ,

It seems the general reaction to Apple pulling out their Safari 4 Beta “tabs on top” feature has been generally positive. The sentiment seems to indicate the feature to be so inferior to the workaday solution of having tabs below the address-bar, that tabs-on-top shouldn’t even be optional for those of use who understand their [...]

Is There An “OSX Preview”-Like App For Windows?

    12:26 on June 09th, 2009 , , ,

Working on the girlfriends Mac, one of the features about OSX I’ve come to like the most, is the Preview app. It works quite simply: you drag a bunch of files on to the Preview icon, located in the dock. The result, your selected files are added to a “drawer” in a preview window, where [...]

So Safari 4 Ditched The Tabs-On-Top Again

    11:40 , , ,

During last nights special Apple event, the final version of Safari 4 was released. And with that, they ditched one of the most interesting new features that was introduced in the beta, tabs on top (here’s a screenshot). Apparently they couldn’t make it userfriendly enough. Pussies.

Through The Looking Glass, Or How My Great Macbook Adventure Was All Too Brief

    13:17 on March 12th, 2009 , , ,

I had heard of it before. I had even seen the wonder for myself. The 15” unibody Macbook Pro. Cut from a single piece of aluminum, ornamented with unicorn horn and cooled only by dodo tears. It was a one of a kind machine, and no other laptop in the world could compare. If I [...]

Unibody Macbook Pro 15 Mini-Review

    09:30 on February 11th, 2009 , , ,

Peeps who follow me on Twitter may have picked up the fact that my 6 month laptop hunt ended with me purchasing a 15 inch Macbook Pro. Sure, it’s the price of two used Toyotas duct-taped together, but it’s also carved from a single piece of aluminum, and the keyboard is chiseled from unicorn horn.
The [...]

How To Fix The Broken Latch On Your Last-Gen Macbook Pro, Which Is Why Your Lid Won’t Close

    19:17 on January 13th, 2009 ,

If the lid on your last-gen Macbook Pro won’t close, the cause is probably a stuck latch. A clever gentleman on the Apple support forum has invented an ingenious toothpick trick, which can help you fix this problem. We’re told that pushing the small metal pins inside the two rectangular holes just below the trackpad, [...]

Everything You Didn’t Want To Know About The Macs .DS_Store Files

    15:02 on September 11th, 2008 , ,

If you’re a Windows user and if you’ve ever exchanged files with a Mac user, chances are you’ve encountered them. Little files called .DS_Store suddenly _infecting_ your otherwise pristine folders. Those are files created by the Mac OSX operating system. Files that store “meta data” about that folder.

Why iTunes Really Really Sucks, Part 2

    13:24 on July 26th, 2008 , , , ,

It’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.