I love iTunes, but it has a number of rough edges that leave me constantly praying that a major revision will come along one day soon. Most of my complaints have to do with it being simultaneously the “only way to manage music and podcasts on the Mac” and yet being frustratingly feature-incomplete in some […]

Scott Stevenson has posted the second part of his Intro to Quartz tutorial at Cocoa Dev Central. The visual production of his tutorials is always really impressive, because he identifies (by instinct, I assume) the best graphical illustrations for any given point. This second Quartz tutorial is especially notable for the scope of techniques it […]

Have you ever noticed how faulty the brain’s mechanism for detecting “freshness” can be? If you’re anything like me, you find yourself foolishly clinging to the belief that something is new, long past its certain staleness. For instance, I still think of The Cure’s Friday I’m In Love as “their new song,” almost fifteen years […]

Resolution independence is the notion that all graphics on a computer display should be zoomable to an arbitrary multiplier without losing quality. If you know even the slightest thing about computer graphics, you’ll understand that in a resolution independent world, bitmaps are out and vector graphics are in. Vector graphics can scale gracefully to an […]