Just about a month ago I have upgraded my BlackBerry from an old 7290 to a shiny 8800. What’s below is a quick summation of my impressions. Look and feel It certainly feels lighter and slimmer. Although it is a bit longer than 7290, it has no bulge — it is a plain candy-bar slab. … 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
The Land of Wind, Ghosts and Minimised Windows Windows can’t, you see, just blithely stop drawing a program’s window when it’s minimised. I think that’s because you can’t count on programs to redraw themselves correctly, or because they may freak out if one or more of their various window-drawing strategies is not correctly bit-bucketed. … … Read more