The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This is one of those darned Euclidian facts of life. Of course, it’s only fact in a paper life. Everywhere else, it’s an exception. In real life for instance, things get in the way. The shortest path is only useful if it’s both possible and […]

Relaunch is a nifty application that lends itself toward structuring your time into working “modes.” It lets you save a snapshot of your running applications at any time, and save it for later restoration. So you could keep Relaunch documents around for “Work,” “Composing Music,” etc. It even has a nifty auto-snapshot feature that will […]

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My summary of C4 includes what I think are the main points from John Gruber’s “HIG is dead” talk. (For those who aren’t famiiliar, HIG stands for Human Interface Guidelines, and is a long-lived and ever-violated prescriptive document from Apple). In that entry, I forced myself to (mostly) reiterate what I took away as the […]