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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It's been almost three years since I wrote Image Is Everything, and while that page still gets hits, it sure is outdated.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 [...]

Drawing Conclusions

Your Host — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:19:10 +0000

Introduction Adobe Illustrator was the first advanced program I learned to use. Coming from an architectural drafting experience, I found that Illustrator was a far better match for my brain, skill and disposition than image editors like Photoshop. Illustrator’s age and feature set, as well as it’s integration with graphic Adobe’s Creative Suite have made [...]

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 [...]

Framed – a FrameAway mini-review

Your Host — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:18:03 +0000

I mentioned in Image is Everything that one of things I frequently do is crop photographs and artwork. For me this is a regular task because I need to find ways of keeping old and over-used photos as fresh as possible. Yes, I know there are limits to this, and my team is on track [...]

Naked Light

Your Host — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:08:26 +0000

Well, here we go. I just found about about this. I think I’m going to have to buy Leopard and get it installed post haste. Looks like a nice approach to the UI thing too. If you’re a Leopard user and try this before me, let me know! I’d love to hear about your experience. [...]

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 [...]

The New Wave

Your Host — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:11:23 +0000

Update (18:20h 29-09-2007): Original comments have been inserted at the end of the article – Your Host Update (13:50h 26-09-2007): Thanks to Mr. Gruber for pointing to this item, and thanks everybody for coming by. – Your Host Pixelmator has arrived, and just when I was processing cover art, scans and stuff to add to [...]