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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Please, the day that Apple loses market share because the phone looks the same as the old phone is the day pigs fly. The phone will sell. Personally I love the newer design. Sales of the iPhone 4 and the 4S have shown that the form factor w
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
I mean yeah you can bolt a toaster onto a fridge but I'm not sure why you would want to do that :)
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
But none of those comments are going to the app store, all of them are going to twitter or facebook. None of the social integrations should affect anyone that isn't using the services already.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
That's true but turning them off if they're on is still a switch away. Why are you angry about the integration in Mountain Lion and iOS 6 if you don't have the accounts? Do you think that they should have focused on something else?
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Calling anything mandatory about computers in this day and age is laughable at best. Social networking is baked into the operating system for a reason. It's there, you don't have to use it, but you can if you'd like. It's there because we a
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Picking which operating system to use enhances lock in by itself already. I've bought software both inside and outside of the mac app store and since I have that software I'm locked in to the program. If I could move all my applications to
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Yes, the codes for the GM should automatically be translated into codes for the release version. If you have the GM build installed then you should get the first update to 10.8.1 the same way that the rest of us do.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
My take on skeuomorphism has always been ambivalent. Unless the interface really takes away from your productivity, and having to click one or two extra buttons doesn't count, then it's alright by me. Anyone complaining about the visual asp
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Right there with you. Sparrow is effectively done now. Gmail itself doesn't need the improvements, the clients need to improve, which won't happen if they join the gmail team.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Not this is on the topic of the article, but there are no early adopters of Mountain Lion. There are developers using beta software and people who aren't developers that want to use beta software. To be honest I hate the term "power user".
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
To toss my hat into the "i haven't had any problems so no one had any problems" ring, I've only seen on kernel panic and that was because I had just put some bad memory in. Lion's gotten way better, make sure you do all the updates and you
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Of course we can come up with UIs that don't mimic the old school ways of doing things, we had them. Skeuomorphism is absolutely purely about design choices. The bookmark thing is a bookmark, and it works like one. It saves your place on a
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
I have so many issues with this post I barely even want to respond. The movement is dumb, plain and simple. The idea that anyone is going to boycott apple because some android users on google plus started a "movement" is ridiculous. The onl
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Ask HN:Is there a better alternative to QR Codes?
4 points by shadesandcolour 14y ago|3 comments
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Yeah, Labels come across as folders if you try and access them in anything that isn't made specifically to handle them. It makes it a huge pain when you have more than one label because things could wind up where you don't want them to be o
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
No but it is the universe where lots and lots of people were not aware that there was a way to get more software onto a phone or even a computer. People used to look at me like I had three heads when I told them about those other mobile app
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
You're correct. UIWebView doesn't get the better rendering engine but I was reffering to this point: "The limitation is even put in place for native web apps, the ones you see inside Safari itself. As long as you see them in Safari they wor
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Apple isn't limiting Google Chrome only, this is the restriction that they've put on apps in the store. Whether you agree or disagree is up to you. Perhaps the restriction is there to encourage developers to create real native applications
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Split panes are actually beautifully easy. You just select both files that you want in the sidebar (command-I) and they show up. To change the individual file you can click on the name in the bottom of the window. The bigger find for me was
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Chocolat is supposed to be able to load in bundles and themes from TextMate. I'm not sure if this is implemented fully yet but I know that it's an option.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Excuse me for not clarifying: Android users, Android developers, people writing articles that anthropomorphize android. Certainly the little green robot isn't claiming anything.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
For all of the innovation that Android claims to have going for it, is this Feel UX really the best that you can do? Honestly this is barely changed from the default android UI. You repackaged the widgets so they're on their own page which
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
I think the problem is that they moved that setting. It used to be in the Sounds section where you would turn the alert on and off all together and then repeating was in a different context.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
To be fair, repeat once means repeat once. That's exactly what it says and so its what the setting does. It might help if they added a note in smaller text like they do for other settings.
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
This problem seems pretty circular to me. Girls don't want to join companies like this because it's a boys club, but it stays a boys club because girls don't want to join. I do feel bad for women who wind up in situation like this, and I pe
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
Your best bet for advertising is to try and get your app picked up by one of the mac specific blogs. TUAW, Mac Appstorm, Macworld, Macrumors etc. You should also try and buy ads on those sites to specifically target your userbase. If you ca
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Ask HN: What's your password strategy
4 points by shadesandcolour 14y ago|4 comments
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
The one thing that I think is really missing is the ability to pull iCloud calendars/ the calendar on the iPhone. I stopped using Google Calendar and don't have an exchange account so everything comes through there. As it is right now, Cue
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
There's a way to set up finder so that everything is sorted by kind. This means that all the folders will but up near the top together which would help you most likely. I think the problem is the way that files and folders are treated in Un
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by shadesandcolour 14y ago
This is big but unfortunately I don't see it solving a main problem. Lots of apps in the app store are merely repackaged web browsers. Although this is prohibited (I think) by the app store guidelines they're in there anyways. They don't ge

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