In olden days computers had just two emotions. They either happily worked as expected or were too sad to boot. Computers today have a range of emotions, but tragically have no way to express them. That’s why our scientists developed MacMoji using the latest in sticker technology, so your favorite computers can finally convey exactly […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
There are two arguments some use to try and diminish Steve Jobs contribution to the Macintosh, and by extension all of desktop computing. The first and by far most common is to say that Jobs merely copied what he saw at Xerox Parc. While there is absolutely no doubt both the Macintosh and NeXT grew […]
The default of any physical space is clutter, in that keeping things tidy requires persistent concerted effort. People who succeed at sustained tidiness rely on systems, habits, and routines to reduce that effort. Disposing a single delivery box, for example, is much easier when a single process is defined for all delivery boxes. Even if […]
Those who have been following the rollout of Apple’s new Liquid Glass theme accuse Alan Dye and his team of designing user interfaces that look good in marketing materials at the expense of usability. That’s a fair criticism, but I don’t think “marketing” is the right way to frame it. In my mind, marketing interfaces […]
Seems like Microsoft is still migrating features from the old Windows Control Panel to its newer Settings app. Here’s Sean Hollister, at The Verge: But the Control Panel still can’t die. The latest features to migrate, as of today’s Technical Preview: clock settings; time servers; formatting for time, number, and currency; UTF-8 language support toggle, […]
New things tend to bring out extreme opinions and AI is no different. Some liken it to the second coming, while others damn it as the antichrist. It’s early days yet, but to me AI feels more like Web 2.0 than Web 3.0. Both were maximally hyped by press and marketing departments, but Web 3.0 […]
On the most recent The Talk Show with Jason Snell, the conversation naturally (and rightly) turned to keyboards. Tech nerds with mechanical keyboards have become a bit of a joke these days and while some aspects of the market certainly merit ribbing, I think that stereotype is mostly unfair because keyboards are tools. Here is […]
We are coming up on the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. Windows 95 still didn’t make PCs as user friendly as Macintoshes of the day, but it was the first version of Windows that was good enough. Previous versions of the OS were terrible, and not just terrible in hindsight. Windows 1.0 all the way […]
Tom Warren wrote his Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch review for The Verge (emphasis added): This Surface Pro redesign also presents some of the best bits of rival tablets into a piece of hardware that feels a lot more tablet-like than Microsoft has ever created. I’ve been using this Surface Pro in tablet mode more often […]
Spoiler warning: The following contains spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. If I had to pick one criticism of the New York Times, a paper that I pay for only as a means to help fund journalism, it would be how many of their headlines normalize, flatter and even empower Trump. […]