Core 77, one of my favorite design blogs, links to Edwin Tofslie’s visual time line of Apple products from 1976 to the present day. Very cool. Print this out, then put a mark by each device or accessory you’ve personally touched at least once. It’s the perfect Mac User Group conversation piece. 🙂 Enjoy the […]
Admittedly, my sample is skewed, but I have yet to talk to anyone at work who doesn’t want an iPhone. Even the skeptics, after playing with one in person have tried to purchase one. Tried and failed only because every store in the state of Washington is sold out right now. There’s even been some […]
From what I can gather, the biggest problems with the iPhone seem to be as follows, in order of severity: You can only use AT&T network The EDGE data network is slow The keyboard takes some time to learn Making a phone call can take more “taps” than with other phones No way to Cut, […]
Before we knew the iPhone was real, the common wisdom was that in order for Apple to make the experience something of acceptable quality, they’d have to own or at least rent the cell network. Take a look at this iPhone activation and sync video. This is clearly an Apple experience, simple, clear and elegant. […]
I spent some time today playing with the iPhone and there’s one interaction I just love. It’s that when you scroll to the edge of the web page, the iPhone allows you to drag/scroll as far as you like past the edge. It just lets you stretch right past the edge into the “grayness”, but […]
This week Apple has released a 20 minute guided tour of the iPhone that shows in great detail the new user interface. You can download the high quality version here. Apparently there are millions of people excited, even hysterical, about the iPhone’s release this Friday. I must be out of the core news/media channels, but […]
I just got the second email from Apple after signing up with them for breaking iPhone updates via email. I read the mail a little bitterly, since I felt the least they could have done was to send me an email when they had the ship date nailed down. Well, the tone of the email […]
Yesterday, Apple released their own Safari 3.0 web browser for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Amid the security and performance comparisons, folks are also noticing that Apple has also ported their own sub-pixel display technology to Windows. Joel Spolsky summarizes the differences sucintly: Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to […]
May we all experience a joyful reunion like this! And for those in the United States, Happy Memorial Day.
The best thing about Silverlight is its icon. For regular users it’s a web-browser plugin that allows you to view and use Silverlight content. What Silverlight content is there? Media and stuff. Have you ever seen a website done completely in Flash? Well, now you can do that but with Silverlight. From my perspective this […]
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