Tag Archives: software

The Eddys

By C.G. | Published: December 7, 2011

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

By C.G. | Published: August 11, 2011

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

By C.G. | Published: June 11, 2011

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

By C.G. | Published: April 13, 2011

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

By C.G. | Published: March 11, 2011

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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