Posts tagged: mac
The Loop:
Apple on Thursday unveiled OS X Mountain Lion, the next generation desktop operating system. I’ve been using Mountain Lion for about a week now and it’s packed with new features that existing Mac users and iOS users will enjoy.
Exciting!
Jonathan Christopher:
I’m not sure how I missed it, but a new feature to OS X Lion is a Preference Pane called Network Link Conditioner. This is a thing of beauty for Web developers the world over; built in network throttling on an OS level.
Great find!
What happens when you lock Mac game developers in a room for three months and tempt them with amazing prizes? uDevGames! The entries are in and waiting to be played! Download and play the selection of free Mac games created over the last three months, then cast your vote for each game you play.
Free Mac games to play, for you to vote the best. And they’ll be open sourced.
A fantastic tip by Macworld:
To enable the Service, launch System Preferences and click on Keyboard. From the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, choose Services on the list at left, and then choose New Terminal at Folder (or New Terminal Tab at Folder).
Now, when you Control-click (right-click) on a folder in the Finder, your new Terminal Service should appear near the bottom of the contextual menu.
Saves me a lot of trouble.
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A new version of Dropbox was released on Thursday without much fanfare, but Lion users will be happy to know that the update finally restores Finder integration for Apple’s latest OS.
Finally.
Lion is any measure, gestures are becoming an important part of OS X; someday, they might replace the mouse entirely. So Lion’s launch is a perfect opportunity to make the switch—or, at minimum, to become conversant in this interactive language. And even if swiping and tapping on a trackpad is already familiar to you, you’ll still need to adjust to Lion’s new vocabulary. Here are some tips for doing both.
A very good article on the new gestures in Lion and how to use and remember them.
When using Safari in Lion’s Full-Screen mode, you can grab the edges of the browser and drag inward to reduce the width, making fluid websites easier to read on wide monitors, while keeping a nice clutter free view.
Launchpad-Control is a small tool which allows you to easily hide/unhide apps (and groups) from launchpad in Mac OS X Lion.
Very very useful.
Marked opens MultiMarkdown, Markdown, Text or HTML files and previews them as HTML documents. It watches the file for changes, updating the preview any time the file is saved.
Looks like a really useful desktop application if you write in Markdown frequently.
If Dieter Rams designed a writing app, it might be a lot like iA Writer. It’s innovative. It’s aesthetic. It’s understandable. It’s unobtrusive, honest, long lasting, and is as little design as possible.
I guess that quote sums up everything iA Writer is all about.
It’s been two weeks since the launch of Writer and it went off like a rocket. We sold almost 5,000 copies in two weeks. Of course, version 1.0 had some birth defects (1.01 is out now), but the feedback was overwhelmingly positive—with the exception of a few complaints, mostly about the absence of features and the price. Now the only thing more difficult than creating a simple user interface is setting the price of your product…
An interesting perspective from a consulting and design company.
Apple is making their vision for the future quite clear with iOS, the iPad and Mac OS X Lion. Microsoft, for their part, seems to think the future will mostly resemble the present.
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These two approaches also create two very different visions for the future of computers. Microsoft’s integrates touch input for relatively limited purposes, with keyboard and mouse input as the PC’s serious and general purpose means of input. This means, then, that Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing is not that different than computers as we currently know them.
Apple’s approach, on the other hand, opens up very different devices, where touch is as important as the keyboard or mouse, or even more important. Apple isn’t allowing touch and PC user interfaces to coexist in the same OS; rather, they’re moving the PC user interface toward a touch interface.
I think Apple would be more instrumental in heralding in the future of computing, not Microsoft.
