An intriguing insight into the sketchbook of Susan Kare as she was developing the original Mac icons. All hail checkered sketchbooks.
Fascinating and delightful. And I did not know that the ‘command’ symbol (⌘) was meant to be a castle as viewed from above.
23 November 2011 • Apple, Design, Interfaces • ∞
Make an alias of ‘~/Libary/Mobile Documents’, turn on iCloud syncing of ‘Documents & Data’ and voila — file syncing across all Macs associated with your iCloud account.
What if you were to keep your iTunes library in that folder? Would that allow you to store your music on a home computer (in that folder) and have it sync up your music, playlists, ratings etc. with your other Macs?
There’s a great piece on idsgn about Steve Jobs, Paul Rand and design culture.
My favourite part is this quote from Paul Rand:
The designer who voluntarily presents his client with a batch of layouts does so not out prolificacy, but out of uncertainty or fear. He thus encourages the client to assume the role of referee.
Although there are a bunch out there, Marshall Bock’s iPhone PSD template is the best I’ve come across. Not only is it constructed from vector artwork but it contains every combination of iPhone 4, 4S, black, white, portrait and landscape you could ever want.
Brilliant.
The Shrine of Apple is a wonderful site with the aim of showcasing every Apple product through fantastic photography.
Have a read through the process they go through when adding new products to the site. It sounds like a real labour of love.
14 October 2011 • Apple, Photography • ∞
Through sites like this and this I’m beginning to think that Siri — the new ‘personal assistant’ on the iPhone 4S — is incredibly well done. Those sites — whilst humourous — illustrate the breadth of things that Siri understands.
Whilst Scott Forstall demoed it well during the keynote, he obviously didn’t touch on everything it could do. It looks like there’s much more to explore.
My favourite at the moment is this one.
14 October 2011 • Apple, Geekery, Interfaces • ∞
