April 2010
60 posts
“From a design perspective, Apple creates an experience. From a financial...”
– John Gruber
My Classic Setup: Sebastian P. →
Right when I was considering my Classic Setup series a fiasco, I received a couple of emails that restored my hopes. Sebastian’s message was unexpected and a very pleasant surprise. Sebastian P. is a…
Courier: tanti saluti →
Lo scorso settembre concludevo il mio articolo su Courier, prototipo concetto di tablet ideato in Microsoft, con questo paragrafo: L’inevitabile fattore Microsoft — Ovvero, l’idea in teoria è molto…
Not so fast. →
A few days ago, Amit Gupta wrote an interesting piece in his blog: Goodbye Point & Shoots, Goodbye Laptops. Amit summarises his point in a picture: In short, according to Gupta, point & shoot cameras…
The importance of the LaserWriter →
Image taken from Museum Victoria Benj Edwards at Macworld.com has a very nice article celebrating the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the LaserWriter, Four reasons the LaserWriter mattered:…
Classilla and PPC-601 Macs →
Earlier today, in the Mac OS 9 mailing list, Cameron Kaiser (the intrepid developer of Classilla, the best browser for Mac OS 8.6 – 9.2) wrote: I need to find out if there are a large number of…
Piccole grandi utility →
Questo sarà probabilmente il primo post di una mini-serie. Ieri stavo infatti facendo passare i contenuti sempre in crescita della mia cartella Applicazioni e ho pensato di dar risalto ad alcuni…
Magnum Photos: Administrative Professionals Day →
Today marks the 58th annual Administrative Professionals Day, the Wednesday of the last full week of April (Administrative Professionals Week). The office holiday began in 1952 as National Secretaries Week to “recognize secretaries for their contributions in the workplace, and to attract people to secretarial/administrative careers.” Magnum salutes the world’s administrative...
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins...”
– Sherlock Holmes
Or: how Arthur Conan Doyle could have a precognition of the Web, more than a hundred years before.
The purported new iPhone: a brief design... →
I’m pretty sure you all know the details regarding the recent “iPhone prototype found in a bar then stolen then sold then I don’t know” saga. I really don’t want to elaborate on Gizmodo and its…
Gizmodo e il prototipo del nuovo iPhone →
Non è necessario che vi racconti tutta la vicenda, credo occorra non avere Internet per non saperne nulla. Vicenda fatta di ombre più che di luci. Riassumendo molto sinteticamente: pare che un…
Magic Mouse: out with the old, in with the new. →
First impressions on my latest purchase
After tolerating its shortcomings for too long, a couple of days ago I decided to stop using the Mighty Mouse with my primary Mac, pass it to my faithful G4…
“Every commercial product which competes directly with an Apple product...”
– Stanislav Datskovskiy.
Be sure to read the whole article, Non-Apple Mistake.
The “Compact Macs Basketball Team” →
My invitation is still valid. Have you got a vintage Mac setup you use daily? Or at least not hidden in some storeroom or attic collecting dust? Do you want to send me pictures and talk about it?…
Some thank-yous are in order →
The unprecedented traffic I received since John Gruber linked to my previous quick review of Opera Mini vs Mobile Safari has been a sort of adrenaline shot for this humble blog and myself. So, first…
Opera Mini for iPhone vs MobileSafari →
Yesterday the Opera Mini browser was approved and made available for download on the App Store. I was hoping Apple would approve it, as I wanted to try a different browser than Safari on my iPhone….
iPhone OS 4: multitasking attivabile anche su... →
Si parte da questo tweet di Will Strafach:
wow sembra che il multitasking si possa abilitare anche su [iPhone] 3G se si imposta multitasking=TRUE nel file di preferenze N82AP.plist.
Che viene ripreso…
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Cameron Moll's Colosseo Letterpress Poster
Roughly 250 hours of work. Probably around 10,000 characters. That’s about 40 characters per hour, I suppose.
This is how Cameron Moll captioned his latest wonderful piece of artwork:
It seems like yet another nice drawing of one of the most famous places in the world. Look closer:
See? This is amazing. See the whole set on Flickr, and be sure to visit the Colosseo Letterpress site as...
Anteprima iPhone OS 4 →
Ieri non ero a casa durante la diretta dell’evento Apple che avrebbe presentato alcune delle più importanti novità del prossimo iPhone OS 4. Ho quindi atteso che Apple mettesse a disposizione il…
News reprinted: two Newton bits →
Periodically, when I have time, I browse my archive of vintage magazines (mostly MacUser and MacFormat) looking for interesting bits of information to reprint here, of course related to the scope of…
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Device follows task
I think it’s worth reposting here what I wrote earlier today in a message to the NewtonTalk mailing list:
Comparing the iPad and the Newton doesn’t make much sense to me. When the differences between two devices amount to more than their similarities, what’s the point? “Can the iPad replace the Newton?”, “Is the iPad a successor of the Newton?” —...
Breve excursus sul Blu-Ray →
Tornando alla mirabolante discussione sulla lista di discussione di Luca Accomazzi di cui parlavo nel mio intervento di qualche giorno fa (“Cambiate piattaforma“), non sono sicuro di capire fino in…
“What you need is a constant and consistent way of designing, not a style.”
– Achille Castiglioni
Revamping the archives →
The very few people stopping by have surely noticed the lack of activity in this place. Lack of activity on the surface doesn’t necessarily mean there’s nothing going on underneath. Actually, there…
Snow Leopard: diario di bordo (6) →
Piccole cose che ho notato dopo l’aggiornamento 10.6.3
In generale, in quanto a stabilità, prestazioni — e, al contrario, imprevisti — direi che non vi è nulla di significativo da segnalare dopo…
