by John Blackburn

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• Recent posts
• Mac OS X peccadillos
• First peek at Microsoft’s multi-touch Sphere
• Wondering about the App Store for the Mac
• Growl works great for system notifications
• Usability trumps features, Mr. Anderson
• Leopard’s new keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots
• iPhone Tip: Tap the status bar to jump to the top of a Safari page
• The iPhone is rocking the world of GPS
• iChat timestamps are more exact than you think
• More on Apple and Avid
• Apple’s Pro Video tools are killing Avid
• Be careful what you ask for
• The iPhone’s Tholian Web of coverage
• How to botch a demo
• How about 29 new international iTunes Stores?
• Using animated icons in iChat
• How Apple’s contextual menus violate the Human Interface Guidelines
• Apple in 2013 won’t be Sony
• iChat’s status messages are nice
• Tip: Go invisible in iChat
• iPhone Tip: Use the Spacebar double-tap
• iPhone 2.0 won’t require a second computer
• 26 new international iTunes Stores?
• Apple’s invisible indicators - amazingly tiny holes
• “Alex, come here. I need you.”
• Apple: steal this design
• WSJ details Apple’s trademark strategy
• Tip: Save QuickTime 7 movies to disk without a Pro key
• Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface
• Core Animation: Creating a Jack-in-the-box with CAKeyframeAnimation
• Core Animation: 3D Perspective
• Tip: Make iChat speak your messages in Leopard
• Core Animation: Paths
• Tip: You will ♡ Apple’s Character Palette
• Software updaters affect your brand
• Adobe Updater, mystery caller
• Good design: Apple’s Software Update, and listening to a Ford F150 truck
• Tip: How to rename Finder items
• Bonjour makes your network more valuable
• Interface brightness of field
• Tip: Put your Mac to sleep quickly and quietly
• Tip: Use “Search in Google”
• Core Animation in Leopard’s Preview application
• Tip: Use the Inspector in Finder
• The Apple Ecosystem
• Tip: Open pages as tabs in Safari
• Tip: Press the spacebar to scroll in Safari
• Wireless transactions and Apple’s POS patent
• Tip: Use search in System Preferences
• Adobe could learn from Apple’s Software Update
• Apple’s Get a Mac commercials are personal
• Apple’s product names are easy to use
• Where’s Apple’s killer image app?
• Dictionary is even better in Leopard
• A few Leopard observations
• Waiting for the other iChat shoe to drop
• Tip: Disable the Caps Lock key
• Tip: Look up words in place using the dictionary
• The elegance of Safari’s Find
• Starbucks on your iPod and other locale-based services
• Tip: Keyboard commands for taking screenshots
• Secondary selection highlighting in Numbers
• Tip: How to type ñ
• Nice curve: iTunes at 3 billion songs sold
• iPhone 2009: $10 billion profit?
• Tip: Using Exposé on MacBook Pro
• Leopard will bring enormous market gains
• New patent applications for iWeb?
• At Apple, it’s all about the experience
• iPhone keyboard video now online
• iPhone’s keyboard: A quick-change artist
• Up-right-out-and-spin: iPhone’s animated transitions
• So you’re talking to Bill on your iPhone, when Erik calls…
• More on Leopard’s Looney Tunes Dock
• Apple’s Gravity Lessons - Learning from Warner Bros.?
• Will Leopard’s Dock be easier to read?
• Are Apple UI designers learning from Pixar?
• Patents: universal remote continuance
• WWDC Prediction: Leopard’s new UI
• Apple’s coming universal remote
• Tip: Keep your folders in the Finder sidebar
• Slide to unlock: an iPhone dance in three acts
• The sound of coffee pots and seat belts
• More on Leopard, Windows, and Tabs
• Tip: Saving your online receipts
• Leopard and better window handling
• iPhone in your home: Hello RFID?
• More about Home in Mac OS X
• Leopard could introduce a radical change
• Secret iChat hardware feature in Leopard?
• Tip: Opening Safari PDFs in Preview
• Finding Home in Mac OS X
• Apple is a consumer electronics company
• Core Animation indeed
• Selecting multiple addresses in Mail