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Are you kidding me Apple?

Marco — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:38:15 +0000

I would like to have been at that table when this UI feature for iTunes 10 was proposed- or rather not cuz they clearly liked it. Are you kidding me Apple?

update: Try this terminal (OS-X only) command and get the window controls back where they should be.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES

Better! We shouldn’t need to resort to such trickery Apple, that is what the ‘other’ platforms are for.

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Why do we still use the name ‘javascript’?

Marco — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:12:06 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

Been wondering about this. Since the trademark of the worlds most ‘open’ language is owned by Oracle- why do we use the name? Instead of just calling it what it is , and that is ECMAscript?

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Harmony Procedural sketching tool

Marco — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:09 +0000

Small update to this already great Canvas sketching tool. Included keyboard shortcuts to set the influence level on ‘sketchy’. Just press 1 through 4 on your keyboard to set.

harmony-inf

Or play with it here and set the tool to ‘sketchy’

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Scary

Marco — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:31 +0000

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Openstache and Closestache

Marco — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:39:57 +0000

{ = openstache
} = closestache

here

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Ah. One line to explain them all

Marco — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:44 +0000

I was reading the article ‘What is next in webdesign’ on informationarchitects.jp- and there was one line- that explains UX and what UX is about to webdesigners- in a single sentence:

User Experience is in the interface, not in the surface.

Also. They have (I just found out copy/pasting the text) a very useful script running on their site. When you copy a text from their blog- it automatically adds the ‘Read more:’ part. Now that is smart…

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My pet frustration

Marco — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:10:46 +0000

One of my pet peeves is the fact that- sometimes people put a ‘next’ link- where a ‘previous’ link would make more sense in context of browsing though a blog.

You know how it works- you are reading through a blog, get to the bottom- and there, you have a link called ‘next’. OK, fair enough- you don’t give it any thought and click on it (The Affordance of that link is: it get’s you somewhere were you want to go) Now…page 2, you go though the articles- and there, at the bottom of the page you are greeted with:

OK So, when clicking ‘previous’, will I go back in time (so- will I get to a page, where I can read older articles) or back to page 1?

Does it not make more sense to name the anchor something like older posts, or newer posts?

Let me hear it.

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Maggy Sort

Marco — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:54:40 +0000

It might not be the most efficient, but it’s by far- the most entertaining one. It seems to be a persistent random seeded bubble sort

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Chromium on OS X

Marco — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:08:27 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

This is actually one of the more funnier error messages I came across running Chrome (Chromium) on OS X.

When trying to open an HTML file locally. I get this popup saying that Chromium doesn’t support HTML.

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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The first image posted on the web…ever.

Marco — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:44:47 +0000

And probably not what you expected. It dates back to 1992, after a CERN organized festival called the Hardronic Festival. Tim Berners-Lee asked Silvano de Gennaro to scan some pictures of the CERN girls to publish on this thing he invented called the World Wide Web.

And the rest is history.

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