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Note to Pc hardcore fans: Some reasons why developers are turning to Mac osx

Blogger.Iconshock — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:42 +0000

There is a general belief that Pc’s are for programming and Mac’s are for designing. And although the market tendencies aimed at that partial truth ten years ago, the tides are turning pretty fast. In fact, we can say today that developers are turning to Mac’s and designers are turning to Linux. My question here is… who’s turning to windows?

This good article by Mark Nutter shows us five good reasons why developers are leaving their trusty, not so good looking Pc’s for the better accessibility and versatility of the always sexy MacOsx.

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Prehistory and evolution of the gui: From dotted text to super icons and more

Blogger.Iconshock — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:35:19 +0000

I know it’s quite a pompous title, and I am surely lucky if this article manages to encompass half the premise. What I want is to give you a mayor overview through the history and concepts of the graphic user interface, something so ubiquitous its easy to ignore.

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PICASA: The Greatest Image Viewer!

Lina — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:07:02 +0000

Picasa is a google application, which allows you to see most of bitmap formats, among them you can see the most populars: .png – .jpg – .gif – .ico – etc…

Besides being the greatest image viewer, is the easiest way to share, search, organize and edit your images, photos, graphics and also you can convert them in movie clips, collages, and it gives you the opportunity to filter your files. You can choose if you want to see only portrait pictures, movies or images you’ve cataloged as the most specials and a lot more.

This application Works in Mac, Windows XP/Vista or Linux and you can use it as the principal application to open any kind of new images that you import in your computer.
Picasa finds your documents and organize them from albums, files and any other material that is related with an image.

You really should try it: http://www.picasaweb.google.com

Is icon perspective important?

susana — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:45:24 +0000

Looking around the I Started Something Blog, I found out that Windows Vista Icons were facing the wrong direction. I used Vista for a couple of weeks and never noticed it, but when we compare them with icons from Windows XP, we can tell the difference.

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Windows, UI mistakes: The importance of a well done User Interface

susana — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:53:50 +0000

A user interface is the first thing people notice of your software, web page or whatever application you create. Even if your software works perfectly, you need to make sure the User Interface works correctly too. We’re going to check a couple ofUI bloopers Microsoft has failed to fix, lets just hope this doesn’t happen in Windows 7.
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