Links 3.28.08
March 28, 2008
In the kitchen with Moby
Tony Morgan on Seth Godin…
Your Branding Sucks
FortyOneTwenty
Hot church media
A surly group of friends doing great work, from their passion, here and in Rwanda.
Scallywags – I’m continually amazed by them.
Safari is still the best browsing experience, but Apple still needs to fix a few things.
$10,000 exploit
The ups and few downs of Keynote.
February 22, 2008
I hate sounding like an Apple fanboy all the time, but it’s hard when you’ve worked on both sides and can easily see the advantage of the Apple experience. I don’t usually have to do much in Power Point, but when I do, I hate it.
Today, I had to throw together a “state of the church” slideshow for a meeting on Sunday. I decided to use Keynote instead of Power Point.
Wow. What a better user experience. Almost everything is easier in Keynote than on PP. Apple did a great job. I’m using one of their built in templates. When it came down to making a chart, I could believe how simple they made it. It was also so easy to make it look professional, that I didn’t even try to “design” a slideshow, I just used the template.
Ups:
- Fast
- Intuitive
- Clean and Uncluttered
- Puts the polish on for me
- Nice built in templates
- Animation is a hundred times easier on Keynote than PP
- Font consistency. A dream come true. PP is always trying to resize things
Downs:
- Still not crazy about how Apple deals with the font pallet. It seems clunky for the most widely used tool in the program.
- Floating pallets are still a clutter factor when you have 5 of them open and they don’t lock into a position.
On the days when I’m a designer, I’m in Adobe Illustrator all day long. Until now, finding the exact version of a file I want has been somewhat cumbersome. With this Quicklook Plugin for Illustrator, it’s a breeze. Now I cruise along finding things more efficiently…because I can see inside all of these files without ever opening Illustrator…Sweet!
It’s about time. Office for Mac 2008.
January 7, 2008
Ars Technica has a first look review of the new Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.
I’m oddly excited about this. Everyone knows I’m an Apple Fanboy, and I love Pages, I’m just not so keen on Numbers. Overall though, Microsoft has done something smart with their Mac line of products for years…Office for Windows and Office for Mac are developed separately. Not that they aren’t talking and including similar features, but if you’ve been on both platforms, you would recognize that some features (Mail Merge for one) have been much easier and more robust on the Mac for years.
The not so smart thing that Microsoft did, was they didn’t talk internally about cross-platform compatibility. They released the Office for Windows update last year, with no compatibility on the Mac for the .docx file format. — Not so brilliant.
Anywho…it really looks like this is a huge upgrade and extremely well designed from a Mac perspective.
Can’t wait to get my hands on it…should be available at Macworld next week or sometime in January…
I love this. I wonder how much apple paid for the placement….
November 30, 2007
Hasta la Vista-link from kem
This is the difference between Windows and Mac OS X
November 20, 2007
I was looking for a new printer driver for my printer/scanner since I upgraded to Leopard.
Here’s the list I had to choose from: Notice the difference?
- Mac OS X
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Starter
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP x64
One full version for everybody. No mess. No fuss.
My kids are cute.
October 30, 2007
So take a look at them,
but also notice how amazing this web gallery is that I made with iPhoto.
I didn’t even try. I just put the photos in an iPhoto album and clicked “web gallery.”
It automatically synced with my .mac account and created the webpage and gave me a link to share. You can preview the photos in multiple ways, including in “CoverFlow” style ipodesque.
You can also download the high-res version to go make your own prints.
I just pushed one button.
Leopard – Top ten tips
October 30, 2007
Guy Kawasaki posted a top ten leopard tips post from Take Control Books.
He added a few.
And i would add another.
#13 Stop opening files to see what’s in them.
Highlight just about any file, click the spacebar and let Leopard give you a preview without slowing down your computer by opening programs.
Leopard – Feature Love – To Do List and Notes in Mail
October 29, 2007
I love how Mail in Leopard now has “To Do Lists” and “Notes.”
Special Features of Mail/iCal’s To Do Lists:
- Synced with iCal
- Categorized by iCal Calendar (home, work, soccer schedule, etc…)
- Deadlines on to do’s (pick up milk for the cake batter by Wednesday at 4pm)
- Alarms (Little reminders through email our alarm beeps that remind you to do what you told yourself you need to do.
- All shared over .mac or your network so they sync on multiple systems.
Leopard – Feature Love – RSS in Mail
October 27, 2007
One of my favorite new features in Leopard is the ability to have RSS Feeds in Mail. Mail is the mac equivalent of Outlook – Though both have features that the other should dream of and aren’t really equals…
When new items post on a blog I’m following, it will come into an inbox in my mail program just for RSS. Now, it’s almost like bloggers are sending me mail, even though they don’t know they are….
I love it.
I barely have to hop into Safari.
