October 2007
mouse IS faster than keyboard. →
“We’ve done a cool $50 million of R&D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.”
via DF
“the type of feedback you can expect from regular users: expressions of...”
– John Siracusa
leopard spaces tricks
You can grab and hold a window with your mouse and flip spaces under it :
if you have a combo key attached to switching spaces (say, ctrl + rightArrow to switch to the right space) hitting the combo will “drag” the window to the spaces. It’s pretty cool, especially with a tablet.
also, on macOsxHints :
“When you’re viewing all of your Spaces (F8), you...
“You know that it will age about as well as the hockey-puck mouse and pinstripes.”
– Rory Prior, on the 3d Leopard Dock. ThinkMac Software - Blog
Watchfrom phantom limbs to synesthesia to Capgras delusion, an enlightening talk on the structure of the mind. TED | TEDBlog: The center of our minds: Vilayanur Ramachandran on TED.com
Interview: Tony Gilroy on 'Michael Clayton' -... →
because Michael Clayton was nearly awesome.
for the love of what is mighty
“open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall dock
“
WE KNOW, ok ? it doesn’t have to pop in every bloody leopard review out there.
Watcheasy string theory.
“Cover Flow in the Finder is going to ruin marriages.”
– John Foster, from the pixelcorps
“To some people, a red light on your iChat status means “do not disturb.” To...”
– Kelly Turner, Macworld: First Look: Picking our favorite Leopard features
“Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.”
– Paul Rand
Watchvia daring fireball
“Think roughly under US$100 to make a bag, which then retails for US$1,200...”
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Chinese luxury market — all smoke and mirrors? - Boing Boing