The current rumor around Mac sites is that Viginia Tech has ordered 1,100 Dual 2.0Ghz G5 machines with gobs of RAM for a supercomputing cluster. Interesting.
This may well be tied to the recently announced delay in the shipping of those machines - Apple recognizes the value of quickly filling this order, for reasons both [...]
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0 Comment » I’ve been using F10 Launch Studio a bit. While I think the concept is very solid, there are some issues with the interface that prevent me from using it full time.
1. The order of the groups cannot be rearranged. Why?
2. Items cannot be sorted into rows - they can be ordered, but that [...]
Having used Gnome a bit, one of the features I found much to my liking was the method used to show the progress of file copying. Rather than using a chunky, clutterific progress window, the file’s icon label updates (in real-time) the filesize until the copy is complete. On completion, the filename is [...]
Apple appears to be implementing (for Panther) a suggestion of mine (I doubt I am the only one who thought of it) - driving directions from within the Sherlock web services application. What I would like to know is if they will implement the other part of my idea - making those directions available [...]
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OS X I have been using Greg Schueler’s CornerClick on my iMac. An interesting implementation of Fitts’ Law. While it is true that the corners of the screen have infinite depth, there are only four of them. Using modifier keys is a good way to expand the manipulation possibilities, but forces the user to [...]
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I am Daniel J. Wilson; a musician (drums), interaction designer, and proud member of the reality-based community.
