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How Much Apple Loathes Flash

Cale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:06:19 +0000

Enough to blatantly highlight the iPad’s lack of Flash support at least four times during the New York Times/Safari demo. It begins to become obvious considering how carefully planned out those presentations are.

Funky Apple Magic Mouse Panel Design

Cale — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:27:10 +0000

I was reading the Ars review of the Magic Mouse and came across a screenshot of the new mouse’s control panel. This is one of the few interface layouts from Apple that seemed to have almost zero thought put behind the design. Here’s a little before and after of what I thought it should look like. Lots of simplification can happen here. Removing the separate checkmarks and drop-downs and replacing them with just drop-down menus really takes the business away from this panel. It’s also more in line with the design of the Mighty Mouse and Spaces panels.

There was no avoiding it, really

Cale — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:39:41 +0000

It happened. I waited in line for about 45 minutes at the Apple Store in Green Hills on Saturday. (Three weeks after launch.) So far, the only thing I miss about my old A900 was hacking it to tether to my laptop through Bluetooth. Sprint’s EVDO network is rather speedy.

I feel weary giving my money to AT&T, but we’ll see how it goes.

iPhone Lines the Day After

Cale — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:26:40 +0000

At noon on Saturday, the day after the iPhone 3G release, the Apple store at Lenox Square in Atlanta still had a line of what looked to be somewhere between 50-100 people waiting to get in.

The AT&T store across the street had no iPhones in stock.

MacBook Pro Rainbow Graphics

Cale — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:09:38 +0000

Oh noes! I was greeted with a screen of rainbow colors upon boot-up this morning. Many reboots later the problem still persisted. This guy suggested resetting the PRAM (Hold command + alt + p + r at startup, wait for two chimes) which worked perfectly.

Leopard: 2 Likes, 2 Dislikes

Cale — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:07:42 +0000

Likes
1. File Renaming. Finder no longer selects the file extension when renaming files. A seemingly tiny change, but immensely helpful.

2. Tabs and themes in Terminal. What else can you say about tabs?

Dislikes

1. Mail. This is likely partly due to our ailing Exchange server, but trying to delete or cut messages results in a lock-up of Mail app nearly every time. Cutting more than one message? Guaranteed lock-up. Been having weird UI artifacts as of late as well.

2. The menu bar’s translucency. The biggest downer is the fact that there’s no justification for it. I keep wanting to push my apps up to the top of the screen because the menu bar appears to not be there in my peripheral vision. The bar and the menus are inconsistent in transparency. Why is the bar more transparent than the menu? I’d really like a good design/UI/user experience rational for this one.

Overall Leopard has been seamless. Upgrading went smooth, existing apps work, Safari is super snappy. There’s not much to really complain about and that’s certainly a good thing. Now I’m just waiting on Adobe to release a CS3 update to get the PDF printer functioning again.

Vintage Apple on Ebay

Cale — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:27:27 +0000

I’m selling a couple old Apple devices on Ebay:

My iPhone Shame

Cale — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:09:15 +0000

Ernie
You haven’t touched one yet…

Do it at lunch… shameful…

Cale
No, I think we’re going to run over to [the Apple Store] at lunch tomorrow

Ernie
Today.

Cale
I know… we’re going to be the last people walking in there to say OMG how awesome! And the Apple people are just going to be like, “Lamers….”
Then they’ll say, “You have to leave now.”
and we’ll be shamed

Ernie
They will. The rest of the crew can assume the shame but you were an Apple owner before the iMac.

Shamed.

Big time.

I shame you.

Cale
I’ve received a call from an iPhone… does that count for anything?

Ernie
No.

Cale
dammit

Ernie
I called myself with an iPhone, when you can say that… half shame lifted.

Ernie
If you buy an iPhone on the spot, the rest of the shame is lifted, otherwise you will have to live with iPhone half shame for the rest of your life.

Ol’ Calc

Cale — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:16:53 +0000

Poor Calculator just couldn’t handle it today.

iPhone Craziness in Nashville

Cale — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:09:56 +0000

According to Sitening, 150 people were lined up at the Green Hills Apple store around 2:30 this afternoon. They have photos of the event.

Update: It also looks like various companies are giving away products to those standing in line.