Sometimes companies let technical considerations affect their product strategy in a bad way, allowing “practical” point of view override the “user” point of view. Startups often say “our technology does X, this can be interpreted into several actions, let’s wrap them together to make a...
Category: Apple
The dark side of the moon
Started working on a new & interesting project for Microsoft’s Innovation Lab, can’t disclose any details, but I can say it’s pretty exciting. So now I can play with all the coolest gadgets scattered around the lab, drink as much coke as I want, and...
PC is a blue screen in Mac networking icons
In Leopard’s (latest Mac OS) Finder networking, the default icon for PCs sports a typical error blue screen.. I love it : )
Cool recycled MacbookPro stand, do it your self!
Few days ago my good old 17″ Studio Display monitor died after almost 9 years of devoted service. It’s been about two years that my main computer is a MacBookPro, and the old G4 is nothing more than a file server & itunes jukebox.One thing...
SWX PHP – takes only 3 minutes to set up
I am working on a new project that requires serverside development, using Apache, MySQL and PHP. However I didn’t want to change my current personal webserver configuration – the one that comes with OS X, and I remembered my friend Eran’s tip about MAMP –...
How about a Greener Apple?
When I just got my first car, It felt like I was set free – I could go wherever I want, whenever I want.. few years later I got a similar feeling when as a graphic design student I bought my first Mac – suddenly...
Window resize – Apple are you sure?
The difference between PC and Mac in term of window resizing (where to drag in order to resize a window) is old and everybody got used to it by now.Basically PC windows have a drag-able border, when you place the cursor over the window border...
OpenOffice for Mac – great news!
According to Philipp Lohmann, Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac. I’ve been using NeoOffice for a while now, and even though it got better (it should with the amount of patches they release), it is still kinda slow. But the current OpenOffice...
Apple portables issue – a holiday killed my mac’s battery!
I was working the other night, and then I simply left my macbook pro on without hooking the AC cord on, same as I do every night. Since it was a holiday the day after, the computer had another day and night to rest.. it...
Porting app to Mac – mash native services
Scott Stevenson of Thecacao has a great point differentiating cross platform applications and native mac applications, another basic difference in the user experience between ported apps and native Mac apps is that Mac native applications enjoy core services such as Dictionary-Thesaurus, Speller, etc.. I rely...