Brief article on how MobileMe(and Joyent Connector) icons so much better than Google style word links:
Pure text-based interfaces must be “read” every time.
The one thing they don’t mention in the article is the fact that the icons should have different shapes to improve user recognition time.
In order to maintain an iPhone-like look, Apple has repeated [...]
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Apple’s MobileMe and Joyent’s Connector
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine
Cuil finally launches. They are my “favorite” search engine startup because of this:
Much of the secret sauce of Cuil is in the way they index the web and handle actual queries by users. Both are costly to scale, and Cuil claims to have found a way to massively reduce those costs. That allows them to [...]
Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple
Mark Shuttleworth:
Can we not only emulate, but can we blow right past Apple?
The problem with most Linux developers is that they want to make things because they are “cool” not because the regular Joe(target market for mass adoption) would find it practical. I doubt that well see anything that “blows right past Apple”, but I [...]
iPhone 2.0 Tips: Firmware 2.0 Has A New URL Trick
As we saw with earlier iPhone releases, Apple is adding “hidden” features in keyboard buttons, like foreign letters or in this case URL terminations like “.edu” or “.org”.
I am all for making things easier and typing less, but what is the visual cue for this? Can developers do this on any button, or does [...]
Fresh UI ideas from Songza and Algorithm Ink - (37signals)
Comments on Aza Raskin’s(Yes, it’s Jeff Raskin’s son) UI for Songza.com (my favorite music search engine).
(Via 37Signals.)
What menu option do I choose?
One of the only good features available from the highly critized Leopard help. Menu bar option search assistant.
(Via TUAW.)
Firefox 3 beta 2 for Mac : Web form rendering
Since I switched to a Mac, a couple of years back, I noticed that Firefox was rather slow and a complete memory hog in OS X.
That seems to be a thing of the past when the new Firefox 3 beta 2 arrived. Not only does it have a more Mac-like GUI, but it really [...]