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Apple: Their Tablet Computer History – liquidpubs' blog 

minimalmac:

This is a treasure trove of early prototype pictures and history of the devices and ideas that eventually led us to the iPad of today. I’m actually floored by how many of these are new to me because I thought I had seen them all. I’ve been a fan of Apple’s moves in the space since before I owned the first Newton.

This link is a day wrecker for any true fan. Consider yourself warned. (via MacStories)

(Source: crackityjones)

Frank Chimero: There is a Horse in the Apple Store 

There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.

I think, “Why?” What is the villain here that blinds all of these people to this situation? Am I nuts for thinking this is exceptional? Does anyone else see this? Did I accidentally drop acid and not realize? I must take a photo….

minimalmac: What? That? Up there? The picture? Well, I’ll tell you about that in a second. First, a story… Before my wife, Princess Bethany, and I got married, we took a course on money management for couples. The course was led by Ruth Hayden, author of the very excellent book For Richer, Not Poorer: The Money Book for Couples. You should buy it. Seriously. You see, money differences and problems are one of the leading causes of breakups and divorce. Anyway, one of the strategies she advocates is to figure out how much money you need every month for your day to day stuff beyond bills, divide it by 31 to find your daily budget, and then get that amount in cash (yes, the dead tree, smokable kind). Spending cash makes you very conscious of exactly how much you have to spend. The rule is that when it’s gone, it’s gone, and you have to do without. It’s a killer idea and one I don’t do often enough. Largely because getting and dealing with cash these debit card days is kind of a pain. Online purchases in iTunes, Amazon orders, software purchases - there are plenty of things you can’t easily pay for in cash. Which brings me to the screenshot above. It’s an iPhone app called Left to Spend (iTunes link). Here is how the developer describes it: To use ‘Left to spend’, all you need to do is set up a daily allowance that you KNOW won’t break your budget. Every day this amount will be added to your total allowance. Whenever you spend money you simply open ‘Left to spend’ and enter the amount, which is then subtracted from your total allowance. If your total allowance is running low, you need to slow down your spending and wait for your allowances to accumulate. As long as you never get below 0, you’ll never have to worry about money again. Yep, a solution to the problem. Cash, or no cash, track spending just the way it was recommended in my story above. It’s an elegant little app that does one thing well (Paging Mr. Mottram!). Not only that but it is an excellent first project for a struggling student abroad so help him out with a few cents from your daily budget. (Submitted to Minimal Mac by the developer, Lauge Jepsen. Full disclosure; He did give me a freebie code to check it out. Doing so did not guarantee a review – positive or otherwise.)

minimalmac:

What? That? Up there? The picture? Well, I’ll tell you about that in a second. First, a story…

Before my wife, Princess Bethany, and I got married, we took a course on money management for couples. The course was led by Ruth Hayden, author of the very excellent book For Richer, Not Poorer: The Money Book for Couples. You should buy it. Seriously. You see, money differences and problems are one of the leading causes of breakups and divorce. Anyway, one of the strategies she advocates is to figure out how much money you need every month for your day to day stuff beyond bills, divide it by 31 to find your daily budget, and then get that amount in cash (yes, the dead tree, smokable kind). Spending cash makes you very conscious of exactly how much you have to spend. The rule is that when it’s gone, it’s gone, and you have to do without.

It’s a killer idea and one I don’t do often enough. Largely because getting and dealing with cash these debit card days is kind of a pain. Online purchases in iTunes, Amazon orders, software purchases - there are plenty of things you can’t easily pay for in cash. Which brings me to the screenshot above. It’s an iPhone app called Left to Spend (iTunes link). Here is how the developer describes it:

To use ‘Left to spend’, all you need to do is set up a daily allowance that you KNOW won’t break your budget. Every day this amount will be added to your total allowance. Whenever you spend money you simply open ‘Left to spend’ and enter the amount, which is then subtracted from your total allowance. If your total allowance is running low, you need to slow down your spending and wait for your allowances to accumulate. As long as you never get below 0, you’ll never have to worry about money again.

Yep, a solution to the problem. Cash, or no cash, track spending just the way it was recommended in my story above. It’s an elegant little app that does one thing well (Paging Mr. Mottram!). Not only that but it is an excellent first project for a struggling student abroad so help him out with a few cents from your daily budget.

(Submitted to Minimal Mac by the developer, Lauge Jepsen. Full disclosure; He did give me a freebie code to check it out. Doing so did not guarantee a review – positive or otherwise.)

Ahh, VA and VX, my two favourite airlines. Have a good trip!  gizo: indefensible: See you next week, San Francisco. I cannot believe that anyone would consider leaving the country in this cliffhanger political environment - we are without government and direction, and upon return you may find your flat overrun with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and ne’er-do-wells

Ahh, VA and VX, my two favourite airlines. Have a good trip! 

gizo:

indefensible:

See you next week, San Francisco.

I cannot believe that anyone would consider leaving the country in this cliffhanger political environment - we are without government and direction, and upon return you may find your flat overrun with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and ne’er-do-wells

Left aligned text in Safari Reader

There’s no need to modify files inside the Safari app bundle to to change the text alignment from justified to left-aligned. Just apply your custom stylesheet (or use mine) in the Safari Preferences > Advanced tab

http://jonpoh.com/downloads/safari_reader_left.css

Save the above CSS somewhere on your hard disk and select it in Safari’s Preferences.

Note: I found those selectors using the Webkit Web Inspector. It MAY conflict with styles on some websites. Please let me know if you notice any problems with it, or if you have any suggestions on improving it.

UPDATE: seems I should have done a bit more testing. My trick doesn’t work after all. Move along now, nothing to see here :)

Brilliant, just brilliant.

clientsfromhell:

Client: “We want to show one of our industrial steel columns in our logo. I think it should show one large tower with two smaller storage tanks along the bottom.”

Me: “Like this?” [I draw a long vertical shaft with two round circles at the base..]

Client: “It’s PERFECT! Let’s go with that.”

Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors

So true…

clientsfromhell:

Fun Fact: As a graphic designer, 92% of your time will be spent on unpaid favors.

Illustration by Tobias Lunchbreath

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/4194962172/sizes/o/

Typing on the iPad

Right, so i just saw Google’s Chrome OS touch-screen concept pics and video, and the one thing that struck me was the split keyboard, which I just saw a few days ago:

russianpencil:

Scale the keyboard down so it’s about the size of the iPhone keyboard in landscape mode, and then split it into two halves. I discovered that this method of input is not without precedent; Gizmodo briefly mentioned a variation of this in their write up a couple weeks ago.

20 Things I already know about Apple’s iTablet/iSlate 

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