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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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What Makes the Perfect Mac App?

October 2, 2009

The most innovative Mac apps are not at the office suite tier, but coming from the small-to-medium size developer shops. Almost every application I have bought over the last year or so shares a common set of characteristics. If an app offers all of these (and solves a problem that I need fixed), it gets me to click buy every time.

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Discovering the Minimal Mac

September 30, 2009

I’ve recently reworked my desktop to embrace a lot of the ideas discussed on Minimal Mac. I’ve gone to an auto-hiding Dock, de-cluttered my menu bar, and removed any sign of files, drives, or folders from the Desktop.

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How to Get Me to Test Drive a New App

September 14, 2009

I woke up this morning and saw a double recommendation for Notational Velocity, a note-taking app for the Mac, from two of my favorite bloggers, Giles Turnbull and John Gruber.
How can I not give this app a test drive?

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Services: The #1 Reason to Upgrade to Snow Leopard

September 8, 2009

I just finished watching a series of MacBreak video podcasts on the new Services architecture in Snow Leopard, and I was really impressed. With Snow Leopard, Apple has completely overhauled this architecture and introduced a killer framework that will really benefit both the casual and advanced user.

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3 Tips to Get the Most Out of Word 2008 on the Mac

July 7, 2009

In the most recent Mac Power Users podcast, ”Word Processing and Writing“, Katie (@maccore) and Dave (@macsparky) led a great discussion on Mac Word Processing Apps.  I know… it sounds a little dry, but trust me.  It was really good.  By the time the podcast had wrapped up I not only had three new apps to test [...]

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Cult of Mac: 20 Years Later, Mac IIci Dies

July 2, 2009

via cultofmac.com
Leander Kahney on The Cult of Mac:
MacMedics, a repair shop in Millersville, Maryland, recently serviced a Macintosh IIci, which was on the blink after two decades of faithful service…The machine was putting up funny patterns on the monitor. The client thought it was the screen, but it was actually the main logic board. [...]

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GemFest 2009: All-time favorite affordable software (via @macworld)

June 30, 2009

We’ve reviewed hundreds of affordable applications over the years, from tools with just a few key features to complex software that can compete with more-expensive programs. Some of the Gems we’ve found are applications we can’t live without. As a grand finale to GemFest 2009, here’s a list of some of our all-time favorite Mac [...]

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Maine’s expanded MacBook program the ‘largest of its kind’ (via @appleinsider)

June 30, 2009

The Maine Department of Education said Tuesday that it plans to expand to high school students a program that has provided Apple notebook computers to all of the state’s middle school students for the past 7 years, creating “the world’s largest educational technology program of its kind.”
As part of the deal, the Maine Department of [...]

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