Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy
Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh
- How to listen to YouTube audio as a “podcast” (2018.01.09)
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Who the hell wants to sit fixedly in a chair watching a visually uninteresting YouTube video when you can just listen to it while on the go? A lot of lectures and interviews have no useful visual component, and you really can just listen to them and miss almost nothing
- Eudora reminiscences (2017.10.05)
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Eudora equivalent of 2017: Overcast
- Defeating Face ID (2017.09.28)
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There are other face-recognition systems, even on telephones, but Face ID on the iPhone X will be the gold standard to beat. Hence it becomes an amusing parlour game to imagine ways to defeat this still-unreleased technology [update with how stupid I feel about this entire post]
- Steve Dorner: Still undead (2015.07.04)
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Steve Dorner: Still undead, and your E‑mail still sucks
- Daring Fireball Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015.06.12)
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King of Macintosh journalists John Gruber, like his fellow-traveller male technology hacks, has much to answer for after they spent years hushing up the fact Tim Cook is gay
- Names of Apple designers (2015.03.18)
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From numerous sources, names of many of Apple’s allegedly-19-strong team of designers
- Memo to Khoi Vinh: Helvetica complaints (2014.10.28)
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Khoi Vinh: “Helvetica has been the standard system typeface for iOS since the beginning, and largely without complaint.” Oh?
- Two editors you don’t want working on your nonfiction book (2014.01.16)
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Natalie Horbechevsky and Brooke Carey. They’re the editrixen listed in the acknowledgements to Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, a treasure trove of repetitiveness and warmed-over quotes
- Nerds as if manfully reject the 5C (2014.01.06)
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Nerds think colour is girly and faggy. Actually, I question their manhood