Tag: apple

  • Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. Apple’s new HTML5 page.

  • Scott Jackson: In 1989, Matt Groening worked on an Apple advertising pamphlet/booklet thing aimed at students. Read the whole thing.

  • iPad, meet velcro. A DIY iPad commercial. (Via Zack Shapiro) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • Google Font Directory beta Google’s new open source webfont directory as rendered by the Apple iPad.

  • Mos Def iPad (via nerdboyfriend).

  • Via Luke Crawford.

  • Mike Bodge: It started off innocently…an iPod here and there. Then I got into the hard stuff, laptops, iPhones, desktops. Before I knew it, every chord in my house is white. I’ve become what I’ve always feared most…a Macindouche bag.

  • I’m not saying you want an iPad or need one (or any of the upcoming tablets) — I don’t get commission. I’m just saying, what’s the big deal? It’s a computer and television and radio and newspaper and book and magazine and game console and Internet the size of a piece of paper and the…

  • Marco.org: Hot zones

    Marco.org: Hot zones Marco Arment: With universal auto-rotation, the massive touch screen, and highly reactive apps, the iPad (and the iPhone, but it’s worse on the iPad) is always “hot” — touch anywhere on the screen, brush off a speck of dust, or change its orientation slightly (often unintentionally), and something changes. I experience this…

  • A 21-year-old Macintosh SE/30 that can comfortably use the Internet and Mac OS 8.1. Made possible by an array of user upgrades — the SE/30 has one slot and a few standard ports which were creatively maximized by aftermarket modifications. It’s a nice example of honing a tool to do a few things well, instead…

  • Silver Pogo Sketch Stylus for capacitive touch devices by Ten One Design. The aluminum shaft actually transmits your body’s electricity to the metal brillo pad tip. I recommend this pen for iPad, and many others agree. Read about it. (Thanks, Marc.)

  • Regarding The Pesky .DS_Store

    The .DS_Store can be an annoying and troublesome file for power Mac users, i.e. developers and programmers. The purpose of the .DS_Store file (Desktop Services Store) is to remember your preferences for displaying a particular folder. However, they sometimes cause problems for those who need to compile from directories, use SVN while retaining invisible files,…

  • Customising Colors in Leopard Terminal

    Customising Colors in Leopard Terminal

  • iPad actions for Photoshop

    iPad actions for Photoshop Create iPad 1024×768 screenshot Click button for instant, Apple-style marketing

  • [Steve Jobs] did the same thing with the original Mac, although then, Flash was not the issue. Few will remember, but, when the Mac debuted in 1984, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. That was a big deal. Almost every application then in existence depended on the arrow keys (then called cursor keys)…