Not that it matters, but: I like new Dock. It’s more or less always hidden, hence it’s reflections are lost on me, the small dot looks more or less the same (so far) as the black one. Transparent menu bar — very much the same, I use a solid color background and end up nearly … Read more
There were numerous referenced posted on a variety of social bookmarking sites about smart hackers going for a re-implementation of this or that feature of Apple’s latest Leopard release of Mac OS X. And this is über cool that you can now hack your N800 to scroll like iPhone or to show a keyboard just … Read more
There’s an article over at Slashdot referencing a blog post at hunlock about new Microsoft “core” fonts. The post is a bit dated, from April this year, but /. has just picked it up. I saw a link to hunlock back in April, most certainly over at Reddit. I have tried and installed the C-fonts … Read more
I have been going through the Apple‘s 300+ New Features page and quite a few made me feel excited and much more eagerly waiting for Leopard than before. Here‘s a quick run-down of what I like on that list: AppleScript: Full Unicode Support for AppleScript. Finally. With the rest of Mac OS being so much … Read more
There are more rumors around the net about a possibility that Apple will introduce a “new Newton.” This bides well with what I mentioned in my post on iPod Touch being “origami Mac”. Mike Elgan’s article in Computerworld is very interesting in that respect. Events in the past 30 days lead me to conclude something … Read more
Here’s just a quick thought: Apple’s new iPod touch is Apple’s measured response to Microsoft’s UMPC, a.k.a. Origami PCs. A similar sentiment seems to be ringing over at C|Net — although their post is a speculation before the iPod event of Sep. 5. True, the primary purpose of iPod touch is still music playing. It … Read more
Ever since Apple released Keynote rumors were circulating all over the fan sites as to when a full truly Mac office suit would be released. This was addressed bit-by-bit. First, Keynote was joined by Pages. Then both Keynote and Pages have received a small table management face-lift. Finally, this year Numbers has been released. There’s … Read more
John Gruber writes about a limited set of iPhone fonts, commenting that “…but worse than that the list is so short is that some of the fonts Apple did include are so ugly.” I think that the reason for that is to keep as wide a character coverage as possible, while saving memory. Most (although … Read more
Steve Jobs’ recent Thoughts on Music have been around the blogs, news sites and general media. There’s been a nice article in Economist, a long thread on Slashdot. Why did he say what he said? This position does not seem to match many of the past actions by Apple? I think that the story is … Read more