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Last Week on my Mac: Consistency and iCloud

Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.

April 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple Support and Demand

Apple Support has to be wonderful now because there’s hardly anywhere else to go to find out about our Macs and other Apple products.

April 22, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

How to deter your customers

Two recent retail experiences remind me of my mis-spent youth, when I learned the hard way what it takes to sell to customers.

July 29, 2017 General, Life, Technology

How does your Thunderbolt port go?

What goes across on every Mac except an iMac, where it can wiggle worryingly?

January 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 12 – Grand Designs

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A selection of paintings showing Blake’s strength in design beyond normal artistic composition – a very modern feature.

December 14, 2016 General, Painting

Marking Time: making good timelines

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A short compilation of suggestions for making your timelines better, with examples.

March 14, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Taxing good sense: breaking old habits in forms

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Using Acrobat for filing your tax return is like sandpaper for cleaning your teeth.

January 27, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Which app to edit a logo?

I want an app which I can use to edit some logos, and to process my photos. Would Photoshop Elements do both?

January 10, 2016 Macs, Technology

Creating a Chinese font: a long passion

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Working with Latin fonts is difficult enough, but how about designing Chinese ones?

December 23, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Emojis: cute but deeply flawed

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Akihabara is fertile territory for the likes of emoji: exploratory, fun, chic, mobile, language-free, but deeply flawed.

December 5, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

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