July 2011
11 posts
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“If you don’t have a Magic Trackpad, you’re not going to enjoy Lion nearly as...”
– Maniacal Rage: Thoughts on Lion, Part I
I think this is one of the most sensible pieces of advice regarding the use of the Magic Trackpad in combination with Lion.
Prepping the Lombard: iTunes and QuickTime →
After my DVD Player discoveries, my next step after applying the Mac OS X 10.3.9 Combo Update and installing all the aforementioned updates, has been to look for the latest versions of iTunes and…
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Joseph Cohen on the 'natural' scolling in Lion →
Cohen writes:
They reversed the direction of mouse scrolling! Crazy! But really, they needed to. With Lion, Apple is trying to change the user experience metaphor that has governed OS design since the 80s. It was a symbolic move, but one, to me, that ties together the new interaction paradigm – you interact with the content, not the OS.
Actually, you interact with the mouse or trackpad or...
Apple at a glance, May 1982 →
Thanks to a tweet by Jason Scott, I could download this beautiful 1982 Apple brochure from the Internet Archive, and I suggest you do the same if you love to have some bits from pre-Macintosh…
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Visual differences between iTunes 10 and 10.4 →
Garrett Murray:
iTunes Visual Comparison Update
Took a few minutes today to update my iTunes Visual Comparisons for the newly released iTunes 10.4. Roll over images (or on iOS devices, touch) to see the differences between 10.4 and 10.0. While you’re there, you can check out past comparisons (9 vs 10, 8 vs 9) as well as look at the big jump from 8 to 10.4.
The three semaphore buttons regain...
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Photo-Sleuth →
As usual, one find inspiring websites while looking for something else entirely. Brett Payne describes his site, Photo-Sleuth, as being A series of articles about old photographs, photographers and their subjects, but forgives to mention how fascinating the published material is. Worth a (good) look.
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I pulled a Crazy Ivan*
Dear followers,
I apologise in advance, but due to an imminent major change in my main blog, I had to change this Tumblelog’s URL as well, from http://quillink.tumblr.com to http://morrick.tumblr.com. If you follow my updates via the Tumblr interface, you won’t notice the change, but it’s essential that you update your bookmarks if you occasionally come and check here by...
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Modern Suite, by Shinntype →
When a type foundry or designer prepares a beautiful, amazing font specimen booklet like this, that is so rich in detail as well as informative… Well, you know you’re in the presence of things of the highest quality.
(Clicking on the link will either open a PDF file in your browser, or download it on your computer. If you want to visit the Shinntype foundry homepage, click here...
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{The Illuminated Mixtapes} →
An amazing project started in 2007 by designer Adam Parks. Beautiful illustrations, great design, and most of all great choice of music.
(via Khoi Vinh)
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Marco Arment on Google+ →
Marco Arment:
The network effect is extremely high in social networks. It’s absolutely a boil-the-ocean problem. For Google+ to be useful to you, most of your “friends” (in some context) need to be using it on a regular basis. And most people won’t use more than one social network regularly.
To get widespread adoption, therefore, this needs to take a lot of users away from Facebook,...
The strange cases of vintage Apple hardware... →
After an unforgivable delay, here’s another installment of my diverse experiences with vintage Apple hardware sellers.
2. The elusive Macintosh SE/30
I have wanted this particular Mac since the…
