December 9, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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If we’ve got the Kyoto treaty driving us towards a zero carbon house, how can we possibly expect consumers to manage those homes efficiently if we’ve got all these different systems and they’re not integrated[?]
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This one device that
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November 27, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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In the pages of this sketchbook, which hardly anyone but Kare has seen before now, she created the casual prototypes of a new, radically user-friendly face of computing — each square of graph paper representing a pixel on the screen.
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November 11, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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That the Windows 8 Task Manager in simple view is very similar to the Mac OS X Force Quit window is not surprising. What’s interesting is that Microsoft apparently arrived at this design via telemetry data and user observation. I …
November 4, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Somewhat belatedly…
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June 17, 2011
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The Fireworks Styles panel has some shortcomings, particularly when the icons are the small default size.
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April 26, 2010
by Daniel J. Wilson
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January 4, 2010
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Icon design is still very much a skill in development.
Full 512px size:
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 …
June 30, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I didn’t see anything on the Snow Leopard Enhancements and Refinements page about Detectors being added anywhere but TextEdit.…
May 23, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I finally redeemed two iTunes gift cards last night, finding the process generally straightforward. That said, many Macs now have iSight cameras built-in. As proven by Delicious Library, an iSight can also function as a barcode scanner, moving the …
May 10, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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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 …
May 8, 2009
by Daniel J. Wilson
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At most parties I’ve been to in the last several years, the music source was one or more iPods. For this reason, a Party Mode would be of some use. Locking your iPod while it is being used for playback …
