“ People want exclusivity, so you must always keep the customer hungry and frustrated.
Face value: Salesman of the irrational | The Economist
see paul run
“ Jessica was always the good cop, thoug
jessica livingston, that is, and she is
“ One way to establish that peace-preserving threat of mutual assured destruction is to commit yourself beforehand, which helps explain why so many retailers promise to match any competitor’s advertised price. Consumers view these guarantees as conducive to lower prices. But in fact offering a price-matching guarantee should make it less likely that competitors will slash prices
The Amazon Wal-Mart price war : The New Yorker
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
“ There’s no other company in technology that’s started with a strong core business and developed another very strong one.
“ What do you want the stores to say to people when they walk in?” He didn’t tell us what it would be, but he told us it was necessary that we have one.
8 stars speak out on Steve Jobs - Bob Iger (5) - FORTUNE
“ it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript
Closure Compiler - Google Code
The desktop is broken
Compared to my iPhone, my MacBook Pro has an order of magnitude more processing power, more memory, more storage space, and more screen space.
In every possible respect (except portability), my laptop’s hardware is not just superior to my iPhone, it’s far far far far superior.
And yet, for the programs and websites that I use on both my iPhone and my laptop (email, Facebook, Tweetie, Twitter Search, Flickr, Maps, Calendar, Safari, iPod, etc.), I’d rather use them on my iPhone than my MacBook. The experience for every app is better on my iPhone than on my Mac.
I don’t think the 25+ year old Mac desktop metaphor UI is solely to blame… but it’s probably the single biggest reason. Starting with a fresh slate gave the UI designers at Apple a chance to fix old mistakes, make better decisions, and tune those pixels for how we use computers now. The desktop metaphor was the right interface when no one knew what a computer was.
The desktop metaphor doesn’t work anymore.
Instead of making things easier to understand for an audience new to computers (few in number), it hobbles us and makes things slower and less efficient for people who grew up with them (many).
Nothing I’m saying here is new. But it makes me wince when I see websites ape the broken desktop metaphor on a wholly new platform. (I’m looking at you, Google Docs.)
I can only hope that this Apple tablet is for real. Because if a large-format computer with a reinvented iPhone-like UI gains popularity, the desktop metaphor will die away, slowly but surely.
dude! so awesome
