November 2009
3 posts
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Skype and its Drawer
Drawers form an interesting UI concept on Mac OS X, used to bring infrequently accessed controls of applications into view. The idea is pretty neat, but because so many apps implement this idea in a different way there is no single correct way of displaying a window’s drawer. If one app is intelligent enough to push your window to the side or resize itself to make space for the drawer on...
On Chrome OS for the Desktop
Give educated home PC desktop users the choice between Chrome OS and Windows, and what would they choose?
Give programmers with PCs the choice between Linux and Windows for programming, and what would they choose?
Either way, Windows is the loser. In the first question, I say educated desktop user because I know average desktop user wouldn’t care enough to know that Chrome OS existed....
One Day at a Time
An idiomatic word note on ‘cliché’ in the Mac OS X Dictionary:
What goes around comes around.
I made up that phrase this morning. Do you like it? Would you like to use it? Be my guest. Help yourself. You can have your cake and eat it too. You get the best of both worlds, six of one and half a dozen of the other. But don’t bite off more than you can chew. I’ve been smoke-free now for...