Recently John Gruber wrote about the The Mac OS X Tipping Point and finished with this sumation: You can’t appeal to all people all the time, but Mac OS X comes remarkably close. The old Mac OS, as insanely great as it was, did not. I think what is so quickly forgotten about the transition […]
Thanks to Ars Technica I’ve been pointed to another great switcher resource. The post lists software that will make your stay on the new OS much more enjoyable.
For you die hard control-clickers MacBook Pro users out there, with Mac OS X 10.4.7, Apple just updated the OS so that in order to produce a right-click you simply place two fingers on the trackpad and click. While not as addicting as two fingered scrolling, this is a welcome improvement and allows Apple to […]
Now WebKit includes a JavaScript debugger named Drosera. To use it you need to get the newest build of Safari and enter this in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true The best quote is this one: One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it […]
This has got to be my all time favorite comment from the press: “The autonomy of this relatively small division allows Microsoft programmers to cut loose and design the best software they can imagine… Microsoft’s Mac offerings are routinely credited as being more innovative, elegant and robust than its mainline PC products” – Terril Yue […]
This has got to be the best one page guide to the details of switching from a Windows PC to a Mac I’ve seen so far. I’ve got a bunch of friends that have recently made the switch and this is what I’m going to have them read.
Here’s a fun comparison: Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines Windows XP – Guidelines for Applications Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines Apple Human Interface Guidelines Read them if you’d like, but for now, just consider the main page of each guide. Who do you think will be most successful at getting their developers to really […]
Today I’ll stop my 3rd person perspective. I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll give them […]
David Weiss 