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 [...]
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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 [...]
Another alternative to QWERTY
3 June 2007 – 10:35 am
Following on from Dvorak, this entry was composed using a piece of software called Dasher which I learned about via Metafilter. Or at least, It wasn’t, because the Mac version is very beta and crashed, taking all my words with it. But I did write a couple of paragraphs and get some sense of what [...]
Lnafcbi ,cyd Eprkat
1 June 2007 – 5:29 pm
That’s ‘Playing with Dvorak’, typed unthinkingly as though I was using a QWERTY keyboard, but with the computer set to Dvorak. Which I’m trying out now; it’s very slow work. I find the fact the punctuation’s in the wrong places especially un-nerving.
What appeals to me about it is the idea that it’s easier on the [...]
When computers attack…
8 May 2007 – 1:36 pm
…and when I say ‘attack’ I mean ‘don’t attack’. At Waterloo East today I heard the following announcement:
“We are sorry to announce that the 11.05 train to Orpington is delayed for approximately suspected damage to railway bridge minutes.”
Helpful.
Talking bollocks about technology
28 January 2007 – 2:00 am
Simon Jenkins has an article in the Guardian that is so wrong-headed that it’s a little hard to grapple with. The first couple of paras give a good idea of the flavour:
I rise each morning, shave with soap and razor, don clothes of cotton and wool, read a paper, drink a coffee heated by gas [...]
upgrade trauma
23 January 2007 – 12:57 am
I just upgraded my version of Wordpress, and it seems to have screwed everything up.
Hopefully I’ll have it sorted out sooner rather than later, but bear with me.
EDIT: well, it’s getting a bit better, but after a sequence of painless upgrades, this one is doing my head in.
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.
New iTunes icons
10 September 2006 – 12:58 pm
I decided I don’t like the iTunes icon very much, so I’ve made myself some new ones:
Still by LaVern Baker, Young Boy Blues by Eddie “Buster” Forehand, and We Go Together by The Moonglows, since you asked. Picked for what they look like rather than the choons – I’ve only heard one of them anyway. [...]
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 [...]
Spam email header of the day
23 July 2006 – 10:33 pm
Picasso blog hardly Louvre
with honourable mentions to:
Your future, methylene iodide
Order status, parrot-red
Better Success, wild-goose plum
Your money, mole drainage
Future, worm snake
Hi, Mid-siberian
17th century fly-by
7 July 2006 – 2:16 pm
A cool thing from the people at Digitally Distributed Environments:
See the whole panorama here.