Why is it that PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac is still (poorly) riffing off of the visual style of the original iMacs? I mean, that was in style back in 1998, and we’re 12 years hence.
Limer calls 1-888-FACETIME.
It’s sort of like chatroulette, but for the iPhone 4 demographic. I bet the Apple Facetime folks had to sign an additional waver to their employment contracts regarding the visual hazards of videochat with random people.
Making power beautiful
Sitting here looking at power bricks from Dell, Acer, and Xbox 360. I really wish that other companies would get on Apple’s “power bricks can be pleasant looking, and don’t have to be half the size of the device that they power” bandwagon. I mean, man, it’s like they’re paying their industrial engineers by the hour.
Whiny grumble about Keynote stickies
You know, I really do like using Apple Keynote. We’ve been using it for serious, hardcore production for a number of years now, and it just takes anything I push at it: embedded 1GB video files, massive amounts of formatting, anything.
But that said, I do have one gripe. These nifty stickies that you can use to leave comments for other people working on the deck? Great idea. But when you get down to the last line on a default-sized sticky note with default-sized text and font, it automatically indents the beginning of the line, and then wraps after about 6-7 characters, and looks like ass. If you resize it two pixels taller (count ‘em, two), then it looks fine. Grumble, grumble.
Granted, this is iWork 08 we’re talking about, but something tells me it hasn’t changed in 09.
Designing a good user interface is by no means a simple task, and usability testing can be hard to get right: some users are bolder than others, so what’s intuitive and discoverable to one person can be impenetrable and punishing to another. There’s no simple test that can tell you whether you fucked up.
But if you find yourself having to email your entire user base to explain how your site’s navigation works? Then you fucked up.
Worse yet, now you have to click on the chiclet in the top left of the screen, and then mouse all the way down into the middle of the screen just to choose your next function. Boo.
Ouch, found a way to crash Safari 5
If you go to this page using Safari 5 for Mac (http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/home-office/herman-miller-launches-desk-that-goes-up-down-119710) and then close your browser, it will crash your browser.
So, um, don’t do it.
Safari 5.0 (6533.16) on Mac 10.6.3 with ClickToFlash 1.5.4, for what that’s worth.
Un-tasty font rendering in Microsoft Office for the Mac
Man, this just kills me. The exact same text, exact same font size, renders a pixel or two taller when bolded. Unpicky people must have a much easier life.
I was hoping that an upgrade to the latest version of Office for the Mac would fix some of the bugs I’d been butting up against recently, and lo-and-behold, it did.
But to keep us all entertained, it also introduced a host of new oddities, like this wonderful empty script menu in a clean install of PowerPoint:Mac 2008.
Amazon Reveals Kindle iPad App, Dooms Its Own E-Reader? | Technomix | Fast Company
Now that is impressive - Amazon puts out a Kindle app for the iPad.
When will OS X “Preview” give way to “View”? I mean, who prints these days?
“Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said Apple doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation.”
Apple trying to store your video in the cloud | Media Maverick - CNET News
I bet Neumayr gets tired of typing “Apple doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation.” Heck, I bet he’s got a keyboard macro that types just that, along with “, asshole.”, then automatically deletes the “asshole” part, and then sends the email.
“Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player.”
Apple’s New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums
Great thread from Oct 23, 2001 showing reactions to the announcement of the original iPod. Sound familiar?
