Iconic Icons

The icons on the original Macintosh were simple 32 x 32 grids of black and white pixels....

Behold: user-submitted content! The venture capitalists will...

Awaken: Alarm Clock Salvation? If you trawl the archives...

Analogies

Fraser Speirs has an analogy for RAM vs. hard disk space for new computer users. “Think of...

Jonas Rask just released some iTunes icons. I don’t...

Kindle

There is a widespread belief that once books go electronic, something of immense value dies. Reading...

An Example

So I keep saying the Finder should be more spatial. But that’s a bit vague—what does it...

Mindless Automation Tutorial Update

For all of you MtG Players out there, I’ve made some small Leopard-related updates to the...

Awwww...

Is it weird to get sentimental over an application icon? I just noticed this about TextEdit:

Wood

I was reading through the DrunkenBlog archives (as I often do), when I came across the interview...

Xfile Review

If its developer is to be believed, Xfile is some sort of magical application: “The standard...

Quicksilver and Text Clippings

Sorry if everyone already knows this, but I use it all the time, and I’ve never seen it...

Yet More MacHeist

Simone Manganelli replies to my last post about MacHeist (I promise this is the last post I make...

More MacHeist

Friend of the blog Simone Manganelli disagrees with my pro-MacHeist stance: “Millions of...

Rixstep Hates MacHesit (This is Me Being...

The things I cover are overlapping. Chalk it up to the echo-chamber/hivemind, I guess (or maybe Rick...

Fake

So Warbrain was right all along. Malcor, the hacker after Mac fanboys who mysteriously never got...

KotOR: a Case Study

tl;dr alert: People often ask why nobody plays video games on the Mac. This is a post for those...

Ihnatko Blogs Again

So Andy Ihnatko, perhaps the greatest technology columnist of our time, has a new public-yet-secret...

Pages Redundancy

I really like the new thin Pages toolbar. It has a lot of functionality that was awkwardly stuck in...

Magic on a Mac

I haven’t played Magic: the Gathering for a long time, but while I did, it always irked me...

Making Icon View Work

Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit, has issued a call for everyone to start blogging. So:If...