Archive for the 'Articles' Category

NetNewsWire 3.0

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I swear we didn’t coordinate this, but MarsEdit’s older sibling NetNewsWire also celebrates a new release, turning 3.0 today! I’ve been using this in its pre-release form for months and am very confident about its power and stability. A really excellent update. Nice work, Brent!

Service Scrubber

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Most of us face the problem of inertia in almost everything we do. We eat the same foods, watch the same television, take the same walks, go to the same parks, talk to the same people, day in and day out. And in many ways this is good. But the sheer inertia of our habits […]

Marketing A Negative

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

One of the things I really enjoy about the UK is the widespread availability of “instant takeaway food.” It’s very easy to find something in a plastic wrapper that is of relatively good quality. By no means should the quality of plastic-wrapped foods be the final measure of a culture, but it sure is nice […]

Google Usability

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Google frustrates me by highlighting in their products some of the best and worst of web usability. Consider Google Maps, which won me over instantly when I first tried it, almost entirely because of the innovative (then) “drag to scroll” behavior you can rely on whenever you see a Google map. They won me over […]