Yearly Archives: 2007
Folks sure love to hate Apple.
Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk [...]
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Zeldman on Understanding Web Design
Understanding Web Design More good analysis on the state of web design from Jeffrey Zeldman. If we want better sites, better work, and better-informed clients, the need to educate begins with us. Reading the first few paragraphs reminded me that I’ve been a bit down on the business side of the web for a while [...]
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Leopard First Impressions
Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata. It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, [...]
Living The Opaque Dream v7.5
It’s on – sort of. Welcome to the beginning of yet another redesign of this web site, only this time it’s more like starting over and rebuilding on a freshly laid foundation. Anyone really paying attention will wonder how I went from version 6 to version 7.5. Where’s version 7? Version 7 in all it’s iterations [...]
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Logic Studio
Even with Apple’s OS X 10.5 Leopard arriving this Friday, I’ve been completely preoccupied with the new Logic Studio which shipped a month or so ago.I only got my copy recently, so I’m still only getting into it. I’m still a Digital Performer user too, but already I’ve explored the various ways to interchange multitrack [...]
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Most Web Site Software Awards Are a Scam
I’m not surprised by this at all. The linked post above reminds me that a lot of folks want something for nothing, and in the web space this has translated to a cluster of automated content that is coming from scripts that are too stupid to actually give the content any meat. It’s dumbing down [...]
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