Posts catagorized 'Commentary'

Docked TextEdit Dragged Text Trick

Why doesn’t text dragged onto a docked TextEdit icon open a new TE window pre-populated with the text? A workaround.

I Don’t Want a Tablet

“Netbooks are cheap little laptops.” This is exactly why I want one from Apple.

Thoughts on Tweetie for Mac

Tweetie is the best Twitter app for the Mac. Here’s what’s wrong with it.

Form Factor of the iPhone Lite

A few thoughts on J. Gruber’s speculation about iPhone Lite.

What is the iPhone?

The iPhone is not a phone as we might think of it in any traditional sense. Thinking back to the initial unveiling of the iPhone, it’s easy to see that Apple itself understood that it wasn’t merely releasing a new device, but that it was in fact about to define an entirely new category of device.

5 Things in My Dropbox

Dropbox is a service/application that lets you sync files, folders or whatever with an online server and, by extension, between your Macs. Here are a few things that I keep synced between my two Macs with the help of Dropbox.

5 Beautiful App Icons from Leopard’s Utilities Folder

Some of the prettiest application icons on your Mac can be found in the Utilities folder.

iPod Shuffle’s VoiceOver is Multilingual

Something that surprised me about the VoiceOver feature in the new iPod Shuffles is the apparent linguistic intelligence. And the woman’s voice.

Dead Links on the Korean Apple Store

Mac penetration in Korea is low, and these dead and misdirected links aren’t helping matters.

Dragging a Tab Out of a Tabless Window in Safari 4

It’s necessary that a lone webpage in a window registers as a tab insofar as the ‘+’ add tab button would be somewhat indistinct otherwise. Nevertheless, that one is able to drag a tab out of a tabless window and…into another window doesn’t make much sense.