Yeah.
Let’s hope he’s gonna use it for the tablet, or next year everyone will read mails on a SlateMan.
Jobs’ Preferred Name For the Original iMac Was “MacMan”
LittleSnapper: Putting Finder to Shame Since 2008
I knew this was going to happen. The day my “Images” folder would become too big to manage in the Finder and I should switch to a 3rd party software to collect and organize all the images I have on my Mac. I’m that kind of guy that saves very cool and interesting image he finds during the day: it could be a screenshost of an app website, it could be some “fail pic” found on Twitter or even a screenshot of a bug somewhere on a web app. I save everything on my hard drive and organize the new stuff before going to sleep. Then, it came the day I realized I needed a more powerful and efficient tool to manage my Library (yeah, as time passed by it became a library of lots of GBs) as the Finder didn’t offer the features I wanted in order to effectively sort thousands of images and screenshots. I felt the need of tags, a more structured folder organization, I wanted to be able to quickly attach metadata to everything in a few easy steps, I wanted to divide all the files into “type”.
Turns out LittleSnapper was aimed at me.
A Case for Mac OS Consistency
There’s something many Mac-heads love about Mac OS X, and that’s consistency. Consistency in the UI, consistency in the applications, consistency in how users can perform a large variety of actions in different applications - in the same way. Take a look at Smart Albums: you can create them in then same way in every app (including the Finder) that supports them. Regardless of the reason you want to create a smart collection on your desktop or in LittleSnapper, Mac OS X presents you the same menu.
But when I switched to Mac OS, I just didn’t notice this.
I didn’t even understand why I should actually create smart collections, when the good old normal folder structure was still working fine to me. And that’s the case of many users out there: they don’t get the importance of an operating system that can guide them through the process of having a consistent experience, no matter what they’re doing or would like to.
Mac OS X’s Mail: Spring-Loading and Scrolling in Mailbox Drawer
So true:
“Unfortunately, because of the overlap between the area that triggers scrolling and the area that triggers spring-loading, I cannot have one without the other. And the end result is that I have to scroll down through the list of sub-subfolders first before I can reach the rest of the list of subfolders.
Fortunately, Mail doesn’t continue this silly behaviour ad infinitum. Otherwise, it would be a nightmare. It only confuses scrolling and spring-loading once, presumably because after that, since the drawer is scrolling down, I am not longer lingering on any given position long enough to trigger spring-loading, until I actually choose to stop the scrolling by lifting my selection back up a bit.
And once I’ve actually dropped what I was dragging in the desired location and released the mouse button, of course Mail collapses everything back up and I am back to normal.”
How do you solve this problem? Do you use Mail Act-on, Fastscripts or other utilities that integrate with Mail.app?
Stage Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the iPhone360 team for giving us these 4 promo codes to give away.
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An Amalgamation of Predictions and Questions Regarding the Apple Tablet
Thoughtful piece by Shawn Blanc, outlining many aspects of the rumored, upcoming yet nonexistent Apple tablet.
“While Patrick Rhone and John Gruber think the Tablet may be nothing short of the reinvention of personal computing, I’m with John Siracusa, who thinks the software will be so obvious it’s boring. Meaning: it will certainly be awesome, but not as breakthrough as the iPhone was.
[…]
Take the new Nexus One as a comparison. The Nexus One has great hardware when compared to the latest iPhone: faster processor, more RAM, gorgeous screen, better camera. For all intents and purposes it should be the best smartphone in the world. But it’s not because it runs second-tier software.
When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone he said he’d been waiting two and a half years for that moment. He also boasted the iPhone OS as being “5 years ahead of any other mobile software.” And after three years so far he’s still right. It’s amazing that even an original, 3-year-old iPhone is still one of the most advanced, powerful, and user-friendly mobile phones available today.”
Whether or not it will as breakthrough as the iPhone was, I’m sure Apple won’t release a “normal” product. Hopefully, we’ll know everything about it in just two weeks from today.
Quix, The Command Line For Your Browser
Safari is a great browser. It’s fast, simple, elegant and definitely gets the job done. I was using Firefox until some months ago, but then I switched because it became slow, unresponsive and a huge memory hog.So I started using Safari, and I couldn’t be happier than this. Well, actually yes - I could be happier. I’d like to have better support for 3rd party plugins, or at least a more extensible Safari. With more features for sharing, developing, saving stuff.
Thank God I’ve just stumbled upon Quix app, which is very likely to stay in my bookmarks toolbar for the upcoming months.
Screenflow: QuickTime Is Not Enough. And Your Screencasts Need This.
Since Apple released Snow Leopard last year and QuickTime came with built-in screen recording capabilities, many people started thinking apps such as Screenflow or Camtasia suddenly lost all of their value.
Couldn’t be any wronger.
There’s a big difference between a simple recording tool like QuickTime and those 3rd party applications: the difference lies in the editing features. QuickTime only provides the basic editing features like trimming and a few other things,which is clearly not enough. Sure, it’s great if you have very basic needs - but if you’re really serious about screen recordings you’re gonna need a more powerful application.
Today I’ll talk about Screenflow, one of the most famous screen recording apps for Mac OS X, while next week I’ll take a look at the new kind on the block, Camtasia for Mac. Enough said, let’s how it works.
DaisyDisk: Beautiful Disk Analyzer for Mac
I have to admit that I am addicted to keeping my computer free of clutter. I have more fun reclaiming disk space than a sane person should. However, sometimes it is hard to determine where all your hard drive space is being used. There are some applications that love to hide extremely large files in very odd places.
That is where DaisyDisk comes in quite handy.