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Steve Jobs

Posted in: Apple ♦ Thursday, October 6th, 2011, 6:21 pm ♦ No Comments

1955 - 2011

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Here’s to the crazy ones…

Posted in: Apple, General, Mac, News ♦ Wednesday, October 5th, 2011, 6:41 pm ♦ No Comments

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbeli [...]

A Farewell, Loving Ode to An Old MacBook Pro

Posted in: Apple, General ♦ Monday, October 3rd, 2011, 10:07 am ♦ No Comments

Dearest MacBook Pro, How I loved you so You came at a time when my last laptop just had to go. S/He was also an Apple but a Powerbook down low. You came in your 15 inches of glory and let me make a wedding video that had everyone teary. For four years, you killed every task [...]

Converting PDFs to JPEGs

Posted in: Apple, Programming ♦ Wednesday, May 4th, 2011, 5:20 am ♦ No Comments

We sometimes forget how powerful our little Macs our - forget about the Terminal command, but simply through the power of Automator.  I needed to convert 237 images from PDFs to JPEGs for web use and amazingly Photoshop & sister app Bridge (both CS3) were completely unhelpful.  No combination [...]

What are the best practices for tooltips?

Posted in: Apple, Design, FileMaker ♦ Thursday, November 18th, 2010, 11:18 pm ♦ No Comments

Amazingly, I can't seem to really find useful results (after some quick preliminary research) on the best practices when implementing tooltips. While I'm focusing this query more on their behavior in FileMaker, the web, the myriad of accessibility guidelines, and the evolution tooltips have undergo [...]

The possibilities of the iPad

Posted in: Apple, Design ♦ Thursday, May 27th, 2010, 12:41 pm ♦ No Comments

John MacWade (from the online design mag Before & After) has a great writeup on the iPad:

I’ve read the reviews of Apple’s new iPad. “It’s a big iPod Touch!” “I [...]

About that iPad/iCanvas/iTablet…

Posted in: Apple, Design, General ♦ Tuesday, January 26th, 2010, 9:31 am ♦ No Comments

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