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Improving the Scrolling Experience in Lion

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:34:43 +0000

I read the Ars review of Mac OS X Lion the other day (and yes, I am one of those guys that reads the whole thing and have ever since Siracusa started writing them), and then listened to episode 27 of the Hypercritical podcast. All this got me thinking about scrolling in the new Mac [...]

More Than a Checklist

Your Host — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:55:08 +0000

It's been almost three years since I wrote Image Is Everything, and while that page still gets hits, it sure is outdated. In the intervening years the apps I profiled have undergone a lot of changes. DrawIt has focused on becoming a vector-based raster image creator, instead of an all purpose editor. Acorn has gone from version 1 into version 2 and Pixelmator has just reached version 1.6.

So here's a new take on the two key apps, Pixelmator 1.6. and Acorn 2.5.1.

Laying It All Out

Your Host — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:07:20 +0000

Introduction NOTE: Many spelling and grammatical errors have been corrected. Thanks to the considerate and generous Adrian Nier and his awesome list. Thanks, Andy Baird for holding me to your reasonable and expectations. Some images blow-out the layout and I will be fixing these later this evening (Done 22:33PST -jw). – Your Host (17:40 PST [...]

Sometimes, I’m right.

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:30:04 +0000

Yeah, DrawIt and Acorn and Pixelmator and have all updated since I published Image Is Everything. They’re all getting better. Some are getting rotate tools and fixing bugs and others are inventing whole new ways of making pictures. Like this: DrawIt 3.3 Sneak Preview Did you see that? I love that. This DrawIt app is [...]

Image Is Everything

Your Host — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:09:53 +0000

A few weeks ago with the release of Pixelmator, I dashed off a few first impressions comparing it to Acorn, a new contender in the Mac OS X image editing softscape. Since those first impressions, I have been giving a lot of thought to this, and other graphics and image processing applications have come to [...]

Good/Bad

Your Host — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:15:21 +0000

Here’s a table that describes the general balance of Good News and Bad News that in turn describes the long moral arc of the universe tending towards maximum irony. Well, these and the fact that you really really don’t want a table still open when this theme trims off the article for posting on the [...]