For someone who is increasingly interested in and concerned with user interfaces, specifically user interfaces for web applications, this quote from Steve Jobs in 2003 sums it up nicely: Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box [...]
Archive for the 'Apple' Category
07May08
iMac turns 10!
Yesterday marked the tenth “birthday” of the iMac! I’m the proud owner of a 24″ iMac, and it’s by far my favourite gadget. It’s a good performer, it looks good, takes up hardly any space on my desk, takes up absolutely no space on the floor next to my desk, it’s quiet – and did [...]
Creating a PDF with a custom font through PHP and the nice FPDF-library is a straight-forward task – if you have the font available as TrueType. If you – like me – are working on a Mac, it’s more likely that your fonts are in any format but TrueType, so you need to convert them first, [...]
06Jun07
Coda improves my workflow
Having used Coda for about two weeks now (I bought a copy last week), there’s one thing I suddenly noticed today: it’s no longer as much of a hassle to switch between projects as it used to be. To explain: previously, when working on a project, I would have BBEdit open with several different files, [...]
24Jan07
MacBook Pro
Yesterday I received my shiny new MacBook Pro, and it is greeeeeat! I spent most of last evening and night setting it up, and I thought I’d post some notes on the whole process here, with some info about the applications I use most frequently. After finishing the initial setup through Apple’s simple and intuitive [...]
