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The Audion Story (and a design lesson)

January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The folks at Panic Software have a wonderful story up that, although it’s long, is really worth the read. It brings back memories of that heady period when everything seemed like a mystery over the horizon, when we felt like we could do *anything*. It has the “startup” story, the references to stuff that Mac […]

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Pseudo-Mac in a browser window?

June 28th, 2005 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

This is nuts — and evidently done entirely with things like javascript. The only Flash I see implemented is in the fake iTunes app.
Check this out at osx.portraitofakite.com before Jobs sues them and makes them take it down.
Yanked from The Apple Blog

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MiniMac

January 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The Mac mini is gorgeous. Brilliant.
When I heard about it I was afraid it would be underpowered… not the case, at all.

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Spies and Ads

May 10th, 2004 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Wired News: Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware
Almost everyone I know has ended up having to reformat their drive or something lately due to a spyware install or other virus situation.
I’m so glad I have a Mac. (*knocks aluminum*)

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Quick Palm Documents in X

June 19th, 2003 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Just a quick note… I LOVE this application. And it was just rewritten in Cocoa and handles higher-ascii characters better. For those of you who don’t care about what I just said…here’s the lowdown. It runs in Mac OS X, and lets you quickly clip articles, text, whatever, and make Palm-readable .doc files out of […]

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Cool little icon widget for X

May 14th, 2003 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I actually use icons not just for making things pretty (though that’s nice) but for helping me visually get to folders I use a lot… they help me organize things on my computer, and I have a *lot* of things on my computer. So this little dealie is nice to have around… it lets me […]

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What’s a graffle?

April 22nd, 2003 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’ve been using OmniGraffle off and on for various IA work. But it hasn’t been robust enough just yet for me to depend on it all the time. However, a new version is out that looks to have overcome many if not all of the current version’s shortcomings. Check out OmniGraffle 3 Pro.

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Decent video playback for X

April 3rd, 2003 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Apparently the French are good for something besides cheese and toast. Some Gallic dudez have made this nifty VLC media player that plays a ton of the formats we normally can’t on our otherwise superior OS. (And, they’re generous enough to make versions for pretty much every other OS under the sun.)
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Conceptual browsing for OS X

September 12th, 2002 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Nifty new way to move around in OS X: Spring: Home “More Human. Less Machine.The Spring Desktop is concept-centric, not file, folder, site, or brand-centric. It’s designed for the way you naturally think.”

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