Scott Stevenson provides a very interesting essay, Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical, discussing the impact and need for UI changes and the expectations of and reactions by the market to those changes. The entire piece is well worth a…
Posts Tagged with OS X
Cake on OS X with Headdress
10/29/2007 – 10:10 am
As I’ve been testing CakePHP I’ve run into an odd issue on my local OS X development environment. I couldn’t get the system configured to properly render the site I was building. It didn’t even show the default documentation properly -…
A Reminder - QuickSilver Style
9/14/2007 – 10:09 am
So, I ran across a little QuickSilver tip which may be old news for the QS power users, but was new to me: QuickSilver is a a great timer for reminders. So, say you need to call someone in 30 minutes,…
My OS X Software Setup
5/22/2007 – 12:30 pm
It’s been about 13 months since I detailed various OS X apps and software packages that had caught my eye as I transitioned from Windows to OS X, so I believe it is time to review that list and expand upon…
Kuler Dashboard Widget
4/4/2007 – 8:30 am
Adobe has released a Dashboard widget for Kuler, it’s beautiful, and very useful Web-based color picking app. The widget consumes RSS feeds from the site to display the most downloaded, highest rated and newest color schemes. In addition to the abiliy…
Pandora on My Box
2/10/2007 – 10:00 am
I’ve finally decided to give the Pandora music recommendation service a try and enjoying it thoroughly. The system is built upon the Music Genome Project, which assembled “literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome… [capturing] the…
Adium 1.0 Takes Off
2/3/2007 – 10:24 am
Adium, my favorite instant messaging application for OS X has released version 1.0! I’ve been using the 0.x versions of the app for quite a while now, and each release has been a marked improvement over the last. This latest…
Textmate Cheat Sheet Desktop
1/6/2007 – 11:42 am
Wishingline has provided a handy desktop background (updated) that displays common TextMate commands. Like several other handy cheat sheets, the goal is to make it easy to look up oft-used shortcuts and snippets, improving development efficiency and knowledge of how the app…
Yummy
1/2/2007 – 9:41 pm
I don’t know what it is about the Mac, but I actually get excited about software again. I’m not talking about the big packages like Adobe’s Creative Suite or games, which I loved on the PC. I mean the smaller…
Photoshop CS3 Beta
12/15/2006 – 9:24 am