webwielder

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by webwielder 14y ago
You might want to consider doing laundry more than once a year, but until then: http://www.postmates.com/getitnow
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by webwielder 14y ago
I opened Steam three times in the past hour and it updated itself every time. Ask me tomorrow and something else weird/buggy/slow will have happened.
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by webwielder 14y ago
Every time I read about how Valve is composed of only the finest minds in the industry, I wonder how Steam can be a a) slow, kludgy desktop app with inconsistent and at times amateurish UI and visual design, and b) a slow, unreliable, glitc
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by webwielder 14y ago
>And iTunes does indeed suck and I don't understand why someone hasn't written a replacement for it that fits the Sparrow:Mail==X:iPhoto equation. Perhaps I'll take a crack at it. I don't think iTunes sucks, but someone has solved the e
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by webwielder 14y ago
Style tip: Companies and products are not works of art and shouldn't be italicized.
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by webwielder 14y ago
I would be able to stomach this vague, disjointed rant if it had a different title, something like "I am experiencing minor inconveniences as a result of wanting to switch computing platforms".
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by webwielder 14y ago
A native app with a WebKit canvas would be much nicer, no?
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The "whatever design" manifesto(bendansby.tumblr.com)
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On skeuomorphs, flatness, and the character of an app(momentumdesignlab.com)
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by webwielder 14y ago
It's always pained me that the only AAA publisher/developer to maintain strong Mac support through thick and thin has been the one whose games I have no interest in (no slight intended, just not into MMOs, strategy, and hack 'n' slash).
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by webwielder 14y ago
Apple's software has plenty of problems, but it's successes are numerous and outshine the competition from other heavyweights. Safari, Preview, iMovie, the panorama feature in iOS 6, Mail on iPad, the App Store model (though not all of its
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by webwielder 14y ago
>Did anyone seriously think that MG would like the Surface? No, but you might expect Paul Thurrott and Peter Bright to, if you were judging it on the basis of their general opinion of Microsoft. The problem with ascribing opinions of th
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by webwielder 14y ago
I am eternally indebted to you for filling my brain with the image of Andy Rooney (wearing a scarf and goggles) on a scooter, barreling down a New York sidewalk, pedestrians leaping out of the way in terror.
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by webwielder 14y ago
>On the other hand, complaining about the alert box the Flash Player popped up struck me as particularly funny- of course that wouldn't have appeared on an iPad. It doesn't have Flash. I think that's kind of the point. Using the iPad is
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by webwielder 14y ago
I think it's entirely reasonable that a consumer-centric tech visionary cut down in the prime of his career would get more attention than the death of a programmer-centric tech visionary whose major work occurred in the 60s and 70s.
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by webwielder 14y ago
Has Twitter ever had a vision? Their product direction seems to have been largely based on cribbing what users and third party clients come up with.
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by webwielder 14y ago
What were we before? Elves living in blissful harmony?
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by webwielder 14y ago
Consider using Antetype instead: http://www.antetype.com It's an app designed for screen design, by screen designers, and it saves me so much time.
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by webwielder 14y ago
For anyone interested in a real, shipping app that offers many of the niceties of Enterface, check out Antetype: http://www.antetype.com I decided to use it for doing the high fidelity mockups of Enterface, and it turned out to have a lot
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by webwielder 14y ago
Hey guys, thanks for all the feedback. Right now Enterface is just a concept, hence no call to action. I would love to have it developed, if only for my own use! I'll need my own icon, too...
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Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing(bendansby.com)
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by webwielder 14y ago
Midas Green Tech, anyone? http://www.midasgreentech.com
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by webwielder 14y ago
His site's design has bigger problems than jaggy text. Ironic that he's warning of the perils of skeuomorphism with that getup.
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by webwielder 14y ago
Were you inspired by the Shelf from NeXTSTEP?