From the monthly archives:

January 2010

The Letters Project – A New Email Client for the Mac?

January 17, 2010

Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, launched the idea yesterday that the time is ripe for someone, or more accurately some group, to develop a new, lean Cocoa-based email application for the Mac.

The working name for the project is Letters or Letters.app.

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Retraining My Brain to Read a Book, Not a Kindle

January 13, 2010

Earlier this week I read a “real” book for the first time since I got my Kindle last year. It was interesting to see how much my brain had retrained itself to the Kindle.

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Are You a Filer or a Piler?

January 10, 2010

Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac defines a “filer” versus a “piler”.

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What’s in a Name?

January 5, 2010

Over the holiday weekend I found the time to knock out several updates to the site that have been on my someday / maybe list for a while now. The big one was moving the site to a new domain name, kenclark.me, in place of the old one, kenclarksblog.com

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Great Usability Is All in the Details

January 1, 2010

I downloaded Acorn today for a test run. I was a little lazy and launched the app from my Downloads folder and right after was pleasantly surprised to see this dialog box pop up on my screen.

It’s a small thing, but such a simple way to make the end user’s life easier. I can’t recall ever seeing this in another app. A very nice touch and a great first impression.

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