Membranophonist's Ramblings

Interaction and interface design, technology, politics, music, and random thoughts…

March 19, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Notes on Pixels

While technically impressive and detailed in implementation, what I saw during the unveiling and read (mostly this Macworld review) of GarageBand’s virtual instruments for iPad makes me kind of sad; the visceral, tactile pleasure of playing an instrument is …

July 26, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I use the Password Assistant in Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities) to generate passwords for new accounts. The Assistant is pretty handy, but currently not integrated with any browsers, meaning I have to open Keychain Access, create a new Password Item (File …

May 10, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Math Field

Being annoyed with having to constantly open and close Fireworks’ modal Numeric Transform dialog, I thought it would be particularly useful in design applications to scale and reposition objects based on relative calculations like “this box should be 25 percent …