December 17, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Filed under Tumbled
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time.”
Steve Jobs, via CNN Money
December 3, 2008 at 11:04 pm · Filed under Apple, Software
After being pointed in the right direction by x5315, who suggested I remove my location bar to save on display space (not so important on my external display, but more useful on my actual MacBook display), I have now also removed my bookmark bar, and intend to learn the shortcut keys for them (cmd+# where # is position number of the bookmark). I must say I’m enjoying the minimalism, and being made to use keyboard shortcuts is speeding up my browsing. Though sometimes the location bar decides to stick on, haven’t worked out why but I’m keeping an eye on it (a simple cmd+shift+\ gets rid of it again).
November 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Tumbled
The same design elixir that built the iPod and the iPhone can seep into your own code by some bit-based osmosis.
via InfoWorld. Good article about ‘Why developers prefer Macs’, I think one of the most important points from the article is that now Macs are Intel-based, and now that virtualisation through Parallels or VMware Fusion is becoming more and more stable and fast. This means that with a Mac you can test applications or websites on all platforms – Mac, Linux, Windows, smartphones. Linux and Windows are missing that crucial Mac virtualisation that makes Macs one better for running virtual machines.
The above quote is also a good point, and one I can relate to. When using my MacBook, I feel more inspired to work cleanly and efficiently, it’s something about the user interface and the design of the operating system and the applications available that makes you feel more organised and more inspired to work.
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October 15, 2008 at 11:32 am · Filed under Apple
Everyone else is writing about them, so I thought I would too.
As I’m sure you all know, Apple have released design and hardware refreshes of the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lines. Most of the design refresh is actually behind the scenes – they have changed to a new manufacturing process that involves taking a slab (or ‘brick’) of aluminum and carving out the body of the laptop, causing it to be made out of one piece (more or less). This improves strength and makes it lighter. They’ve also added some new nVidia chips across the board, improving the graphics somewhat. They’ve also added a bunch of glass; a multitouch glass trackpad which has no button – it’s all a button, and a glass front to the new LED full-colour screens.
Nothing surprising there then, there were so many rumours about all this, and the later ones got it all right. They all look pretty nice, nothing ground breaking though. Elysium is pleased because she plans to get a MacBook for university next year, and it looks like this design will be the design she gets.
Finally, don’t you think Jony Ive is the next Steve Jobs? Just look at the MacBook video.
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October 9, 2008 at 6:24 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Apple “Notebook” event is on, October 14th!
x5315 will be pleased.
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September 23, 2008 at 12:11 am · Filed under Tumbled
A skeptic’s look at iPhone gaming
I write for Mac Fanboy talking about my experiences with two iPhone games – Wurdle and Asphalt 4 Elite Racing, and discuss why the iPhone isn’t the next Gameboy, no matter what Steve Jobs might say.
