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Big Sur’s icons die in the Dock

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Is your Dock busy? How well are you able to distinguish Apple’s new app icons cast rigorously into rounded rectangles? I’m still failing, and open FaceTime when I want Messages.

January 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to add a custom icon to an app without breaking its signature

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In Mojave and Catalina, tampering with the contents of an app bundle risks breaking signature checks. Here’s how to work around that.

July 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finder icons and QuickLook: friends or enemies?

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Icons are a fundamental part of a graphical interface, and convey valuable information. Although QuickLook thumbnails can enhance, they can also conflict unless carefully thought out.

May 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why doesn’t that document’s icon display properly? Beyond QuickLook

It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?

January 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Every picture tells a story: narrative paintings

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Painting is one of the oldest and most widely-accessible media for narrative. But narrative painting is also one of the least studied.

January 21, 2016 General, Language, Painting

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

Polishing your own apps

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It is not hard to add a bit of polish to your own apps, even if they are only small AppleScript ones.

August 14, 2015 Macs, Technology
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