The BBC’s tech blog has posted a piece about the new iPhone, and, inevitably, the comments are full of people whining about how the iPhone is rubbish because it lacks some feature that competing phones have, or has inferior specs, and that people only buy it because of they are stupid fashion victims.
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The iPhone, Top Trumps, and widescreen TV
10 June 2008 – 5:49 pm
What I want to see at WWDC
8 June 2008 – 7:45 am
WWDC, for those of you who don’t avidly follow Apple’s annual publicity cycle [for shame!], is the Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Which is being held next week in California.
Everyone’s expecting a new iPhone with slightly better specs, but I’m not quite geeky enough to get excited about wireless data standards. Obviously faster=better, but it’s not suddenly going [...]
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
14 January 2008 – 2:19 pm
Tomorrow Steve Jobs gives his keynote presentation at the Macworld Expo. If, as is often suggested, the love of Apple goes beyond mere fandom and reaches the status of a cult: well, this is our Christmas. I guess on that analogy, the World Wide Developer’s Conference must be Easter—closer to the true mysteries of the [...]
New iTunes icon for Leopard: Aphex Twin
15 December 2007 – 1:37 pm
Some time ago I made a whole set of icons for iTunes based on old 45s because I think that the Apple one just looks a bit cheap and tacky. I’m now using Leopard, the latest version of Apple’s OS, and Leopard uses super-large icons so that they look good in coverflow mode. So I [...]
computer problems
20 October 2007 – 12:26 pm
I’m having serious computer problems—like not being able to turn it on—so posting is liable to be sporadic. Just fyi.
EDIT: I’ve seized the opportunity while my computer is running of posting a new picture at Clouded Drab.
Weird computer problems
11 October 2007 – 1:46 pm
I am for the moment busy trying to get my stupid computer to not be a complete pain in the arse.
It does this weird thing where I ask it to sleep and instead it messes up one of the other system functions (Exposé and Dashboard and so on, for the Mac users). When it doesn’t [...]
New new iTunes icons
22 September 2006 – 6:28 pm
I thought it would be fun to make a whole set, with different record labels. I’ve added Trojan, Upsetter, Chess, Apple and Sun:
You can get a zip of them as .icns files here.
Yet again with the iTunes icons
13 September 2006 – 7:24 pm
I decided that while the coloured vinyl was ok on its own, the addition of a coloured note was just too garish.
The anti-aliasing round the note needs tweaking, but I think it looks pretty good. Better than the original:
EDIT: OK, I’ve tweaked it. Here’s the final version:
For Mac users, there’s a zip of those [...]
More iTunes icons
13 September 2006 – 4:39 pm
I’ve updated my new iTunes icons for the release of iTunes 7.
I’ve switched to using LaVern Baker.
Jonathan Ive and the post-gadget aesthetic
16 August 2006 – 4:21 pm
Some more thoughts on design in the tech industries. This time, the slow death of what I think of as the ‘gadget aesthetic’. The gadget aesthetic was a product of the novelty and glamour of electronics; it fetishizes the look of hi-tech gizmos. Lots of buttons, lots of LEDs, curvy moulded plastic, metallic-looking silver plastic:
This [...]
eBooks on iPod?
24 July 2006 – 5:57 pm
There’s a rumour doing the rounds that the next iPod will be designed for reading as well as music and video. It remains to be seen whether that happens, and indeed whether the iPod is well-suited for reading (as compared, for example, to the more specialised Sony Reader).
Whether or not their time has come, I [...]