Tag Archives: software

The Eddys

Perhaps of the most famous awards for Apple fans, the Macworld Editor’s Choice Awards is out for 2011. Lots of sites I read have linked to it and for good reason, there’s a lot of great stuff (both hardware and software) there. The thing that caught my eye, though, was the Pegasus R6. Give me [...]

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∞ Android Product Life Cycles Should Be More Like Apple’s

Reading this latest ‘claim chowder’ post on Daring Fireball got me thinking. What if the cell phone industry did exactly what Apple does — release iOS hardware on a (somewhat) yearly basis? Wouldn’t that help adoption and their bottom line? Consider this: Yearly product cycles mean more time can be investing in getting things right. [...]

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Project v0ltr0n

Want to run Apple’s OS X Lion but use a PC and don’t have the money for their hardware? Not to worry, Project v0ltr0n will help you. The goal is to create a disk image so people can install it on their WinTel machines. When the project first started, it was assumed there would be [...]

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Real World v. Computer World

Ben Brooks on UI design in response to Apple making OS X Lion’s new application interfaces too much like their real world analog counterparts: There is a separation between the needs of the real world and the needs of the computer world. Making direct porting of interfaces a poor decision. Don’t Mimic Real World Interfaces [...]

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Minimal Mac On Instapaper 3.0

I’d say this reaction sums up a lot of what drives Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and apps a part of the ecosystem: This is one of those times when I could not imagine how an app I thought was so perfect could be greatly improved upon but then the developer goes and gives me [...]

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