February 2012
8 posts
Clear →
I have many thoughts on Clear, but I’ll need to use it to do real stuff before I feel qualified to talk about it. In the meantime, check out Portmanteau’s Listary, which I’ve been using since its release in May.
Better Pasta →
by John Siracusa on Hypercritical
I like pasta too, and I really liked this article. I mostly do all the things John recommends, with the exception of salting the water “until it tastes like the ocean”.
I’ll add that all hot food should be served with warm plates or bowls, not just pasta.
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Hot zones – Marco.org
Choosing pagination tap zones - Instapaper Blog
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Rogue Amoeba - Under The Microscope » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Piezo
Audio playback CPU usage
Finder icon view: 80%
QuickTime Player: 3%
John Gruber has a post ‘New High-DPI UI Resources in 10.7.3’, which links to various tweets. It may be true that there are new mouse cursor resources in Mac OS X 10.7.3, and that these resources scale well to large sizes. However, the equivalent resources from 10.7.0 to 10.7.2 are also scalable. My video shows some of these cursors on 10.7.2.
Note that these cursors are truly scalable: they look...
AirPort Utility 6.0's missing features →
by Richard Gaywood at The Unofficial Apple Weblog
It seems unlikely that you are going to care very deeply about these changes, and if you do, you can easily get the older version of the utility.
I’m super annoyed and losing sleep over this. It’s 3am and I’m downloading software and reading articles. Why?
Still, though, I think it’s both peculiar and curious that Apple is...
AirPort Utility 5.6 →
Apple Support
Make sure you grab this while you can.