Much has already been said about the high-profile features in the new iOS 4. But there are also a bunch of smaller, subtler changes that I really enjoy. Mail Gmail settings for mail, calendars and notes are now all integrated and accessible from one attractive page. To take advantage of this change you’ll have to [...]
Two small but exciting improvements revealed today. 1. Google has at last made some design improvements to their search results (via Daring Fireball). I wrote about my frustration with Google’s lack of design vision some time ago. It’s great to finally see them trying to improve their usability and their aesthetic at the same time. [...]
Google’s finally released a beta version of their browser for the Mac. I’m surprised at how impressive I’m finding it. Here are some initial observations: “Reopen Closed Tab” Google Chrome allows you to reopen the last tab you closed, which is an insanely useful feature I don’t seem to be able to live without anymore, [...]
I very much appreciate Firefox’s ability to save and restore my window and tab settings every time I quit and relaunch the app. It’s one of my favorite things about Firefox. But I seem to remember that there was once a way to enable this feature while also having Firefox open new blank windows, that [...]
A quickie: It’s fairly common knowledge that, in the Finder, command-clicking the icon in the titlebar of the folder you’re in will reveal the folder hierarchy that said folder lives in. This is a handy way to find your current location and “drill up” in the folder hierarchy, if you will. I’ve always longed for [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things: “I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“ It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent [...]
That title should give you a hint just how much my responsibilities have changed since I took my new job. Yes, I still run a Mac OS X Server, but I no longer get bi-yearly hardware updates. So my server is running a PPC, as is my workstation. So no Snow Leopard Server for me, [...]
One of the touted features of the 3.0 iPhone upgrade was the addition of landscape mode throughout most Apple applications. Initially this sounded like quite a boon. Until I realized: I never use landscape mode, I don’t like landscape mode, landscape mode is always activating when I don’t want it to and there’s no way [...]
Alexander Limi, one of the developers of the fine — and my favorite — browser, Firefox, recently issued a challenge that has been heard by many: how to make application installation more sensible for the less technically advanced. What followed — and, to some extent preceded — was an explosion of discussion on the matter. [...]
So that’s what this is all about! I grabbed this screen shot a while ago when I updated to iPhone OS 3.1. I do that sometimes. See something that strikes me as odd and get a screen shot of it, just in case. Today I just happened to stumble upon some info that explains the [...]