Category Archives: aqua

WWDC part 0

Posted on 2008-06-09 by Graham Lee

well, here it is, the pre-WWDC “I’m jetlagged so you have to put up with my wittering” post. I’m just waiting for a softwareupdate to finish so that I can go out with my camera, taking some early-morning pictures before … Continue reading →

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The Dock should be destroyed, or at least changed a lot

Posted on 2008-05-01 by Graham Lee

I found an article about features Windows should have but doesn’t, which I originally got to from OSNews’ commentary on the feature list. To quote the original article: The centerpiece of every Mac desktop is a little utility called the … Continue reading →

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Tracking the invisible, moving, unpredictable target

Posted on 2008-04-21 by Graham Lee

An idea which has been creeping up on me from the side over the last couple of weeks hit me square in the face today. No matter what standards we Cocoa types use to create our user interfaces, the official … Continue reading →

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Come back, purple button, all is forgiven!

Posted on 2008-04-10 by Graham Lee

As a great philosopher once wrote: don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone? Previews of Mac OS X had a user interface feature, known by all who saw it as the … Continue reading →

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