And my, they look nice.\* Looks like developers aren’t just making “HD” version of their smaller programs — this is a whole new class of apps.
*opens iTunes.
Category: Design
Next Version of Office for Mac Still Ugly
I mean, have they ever read Apple’s interface guidelines?
iPad App Store Screenshots Surface
Photoshop CS5 to Include Magic
Ubuntu Gets a Makeover
Looking good, my Linuxy friend.
#0044CC Worth $80 Million?
Sharon Chan of the Seattle Times:
Paul Rey, user experience manager for Bing, said his team intensively researched what kind of blue to use for search results. They sent various users flights of blue shades, including different hues and different saturations.
The blue color used for links in Bing’s predecessor, Live Search, was more pale. “Live Search was a faint blue that was like, ‘Hey … here are your results,’ ” Rey said. “It lacked confidence.”
Internet Explorer To Support HTML5
While they still have a long way to go, it’s nice to see Microsoft start to move in the right direction with their browser.
25 of Years of Apple Mice
NES Emulator Slips into App Store
Sweet Moses, I’ve been waiting for this:
Kick it old school with games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Nescaline allows you to play a wide range of NES games on your iPhone and includes five public domain games developed as freeware. You may also use the download feature to add games to your library from any URL. Nescaline is not crippled; it will play a large number of games, both homebrew and commercial; it is up to the user to determine whether they have appropriate licensing to download and play any licensed titles.
‘As Necessary as a 73-wheeled Bicycle’
John Welch on Adobe Reader and Apple’s Preview:
I don’t think that Adobe understands that there is a market for a lightweight application that does a minimum beyond viewing, and does so with a clean UI.
It’s not like all Preview does is let you view. You can do annotations, notes, add links, simple shapes, bookmarks, etc. You can combine PDFs or add pages from another file, (something you can’t do in Adobe Reader) delete pages, (can’t in Reader), etc. You can even add files in other formats that Preview supports, such as PNG, JPEG, etc., again, something Reader doesn’t support. (At least not in a generic not-tied-to-an-Adobe-server-farm configuration. You know. The way normal people would use it.)
‘The Naughiest Of Fonts’
On Mac UI
When your defense of your Mac UI design is that Adobe and/or Firefox do it in their Mac apps too, you’ve got a problem.