If you didn't like Unity before...
25 January 2012 @ 05:12 PM
Just when you think Ubuntu can't make user interfaces more convoluted, they pull another one.
On Mac OS X, menus make all functions of an app available and clear. They're also where you find keyboard shortcuts. On Windows, most functions of apps are available and clear. They're also where you find the most-often used keyboard shortcuts.
Unity? Nothing's constant. You have to search. You have no idea if a function even exists until your keywords match. It's another case of power users designing something for the rest of us based on their criteria. It doesn't work. :/
On Mac OS X, menus make all functions of an app available and clear. They're also where you find keyboard shortcuts. On Windows, most functions of apps are available and clear. They're also where you find the most-often used keyboard shortcuts.
Unity? Nothing's constant. You have to search. You have no idea if a function even exists until your keywords match. It's another case of power users designing something for the rest of us based on their criteria. It doesn't work. :/
iBooks Author
20 January 2012 @ 11:09 PM
Interactive iBooks that designers, not developers, can write?
iBooks Author is a godsend to them.
Interactive iBooks that anyone can write?
iBooks Author is a godsend for educators, storytellers, …
More tools for the rest of us. :-)
iBooks Author is a godsend to them.
Interactive iBooks that anyone can write?
iBooks Author is a godsend for educators, storytellers, …
More tools for the rest of us. :-)
Embrace, not extinguish
14 January 2012 @ 09:28 AM
Microsoft have now receive payments for 70% of Android handsets sold.
It’s strange how Microsoft do better out of this than anyone. Do you suppose it really upsets them that nobody is using Windows Phone 7? I suppose it does, but their accountants won’t be complaining.
It’s strange how Microsoft do better out of this than anyone. Do you suppose it really upsets them that nobody is using Windows Phone 7? I suppose it does, but their accountants won’t be complaining.
Oh, Summer
12 January 2012 @ 11:06 AM
Ah, summer.
Too hot to walk on the pavement during the midday.
Too humid to be comfortable without taking off all your clothes.
Too scorching to be outside more than half an hour at a time.
Enjoy the summer, New Zealand and Australia. Another two months to go.
Too hot to walk on the pavement during the midday.
Too humid to be comfortable without taking off all your clothes.
Too scorching to be outside more than half an hour at a time.
Enjoy the summer, New Zealand and Australia. Another two months to go.
Russell's Teapot
11 January 2012 @ 04:18 PM
Russell’s teapot theory goes like this.
There is a tiny china teapot too small to be detected by our current instruments floating in deep space between the Earth and Mars. It may be in the asteroid belt.
There’s no real way to prove that it exists, or that it doesn’t. Even if we had the necessary instruments to detect such a thing, would we just be constantly missing the teapot?
The teapot either exists or it doesn’t, and nobody can say one way or the other.
Alas, try telling that to Russell’s teapot cosy.
There is a tiny china teapot too small to be detected by our current instruments floating in deep space between the Earth and Mars. It may be in the asteroid belt.
There’s no real way to prove that it exists, or that it doesn’t. Even if we had the necessary instruments to detect such a thing, would we just be constantly missing the teapot?
The teapot either exists or it doesn’t, and nobody can say one way or the other.
Alas, try telling that to Russell’s teapot cosy.
After all, that's how it all began…
10 January 2012 @ 03:21 PM
I went to Telecom and Vodafone today, to their brick and mortar stores in Hastings (both very terribly tacky, by the way). Telecom sells the iPhone $20 cheaper than Vodafone and Apple at $1029. If you’re in the market for an iPhone 4S, go to Telecom to buy your handset.
Also, since when have Vodafone and Telecom not required a plan to buy the iPhone? It’s so cool.
Also, since when have Vodafone and Telecom not required a plan to buy the iPhone? It’s so cool.