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Apple UI Counting Fail

by Andy Polaine on March 4, 2009

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I was just updating my Airport Express settings and noticed this rare Apple UI fail. Bad number sorting.

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The New Macbook Blow

by Andy Polaine on October 15, 2008

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Looks like a great machine, but the new Macbook Pro starts at US$1999 in the USA but is € 1799 here in Germany, which is $2,444. Imagine that loaded up with overpriced Adobe apps. Seems like a raw deal for Europeans again. Isn’t it America’s economy that’s on the rocks?

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Keep Thelonius Monk Off Your PowerBook

June 11, 2008

© Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Since we’ve got a couple of MacBooks now I noticed my old 2GHz iMac G5 gathering dust, which seemed to be a shame with that lovely screen. Jon Hicks’s post on setting up his Mac Mini as a media centre prompted me to convert the iMac into a PVR/TV combo [...]

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Hypercard lives again

June 9, 2008

Hot on the heels of my post about Director 11 there’s now a web-based version of Hypercard called TileStack. It’s still in beta (aren’t they all?), but you can sign up to test it out or check out the video of it in action. The original Myst was released as a Hypercard stack and, until [...]

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IMAP folder subscriptions with GMail and Apple Mail

May 26, 2008

If you’ve read 5ThirtyOne’s post about setting up Apple Mail with GMail’s IMAP you may be enjoying iPhone goodness and be all happy. But you may also be miserable about the fact that GMail’s implementation of IMAP fakes your IMAP folders based on your labels in GMail, which means you end up with duplicate messages [...]

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Jiggling Icons on the iPhone

January 16, 2008

There are plenty of big announcements and coverage of Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote. I’m happy to see the new AppleTV, movie downloads and rentals, and of course the MacBook Air. But it was the the jiggling icons in the new iPhone home screen selection. When you are moving icons around and sorting them the icons [...]

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John Gruber on the iPhone

May 3, 2007

John Gruber is one of the few Apple advocates that writes with intelligent consideration rather than just being an over-enthused fanboy. He has just written a pretty smart analysis of the Apple iPhone pricing, which Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer lambasted. Before the iPhone was announced I was in a meeting with some folks at Fjord in [...]

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Apple iPhone

January 10, 2007

I’m going to join what will be an enormous club and blog about Apple’s iPhone. I nearly didn’t, just to not follow the crowd, but given my interest is in emerging technologies, interactivity and interface design I really need to. So, well, it is amazing of course just as a great piece of product design [...]

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An Interface Too Far

October 5, 2006

I was interested to see this video on YouTube for the BumpTop interface that mimics a ‘real’ desktop. Interested but disappointed.

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Insights into Jonathan Ive

September 16, 2006

Businessweek have a great selection of in-depth articles about Apple’s Senior Vice-President for Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive and they give a real insight into his famously secretive design process.

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