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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

It’s about the interface, not the technology

A whole Mac event devoted to a tiddly little Touch Bar? Has Apple lost its senses? Maybe not.

October 28, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Events, handlers, and focus: how OS X apps work

Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.

February 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Opening access: entering text without a keyboard

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A thorough account of Dictation in El Capitan, and how you can use your Mac despite having RSI, etc.

December 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Opening new windows where you want them

I would like new windows in apps to open in the lower half of the screen. Can El Capitan do that yet?

December 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Opening access: VoiceOver, spoken and Braille guidance

This can read webpages to you, provides support for Braille output devices, and has very extensive controls and customisation.

December 2, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Opening access: the Accessibility pane in El Capitan

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Many of us visual, hearing, and/or control issues with our Macs. Here is a guided exploration of the Accessibility pane and what it has to offer us.

December 1, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Progress barred from Windows 10?

Microsoft’s Windows 10 update troubleshooter could not tell me whether my computer was eligible for the free Windows 10 upgrade.

August 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Comfortable Computing

Working in comfort is not the luxury that it may seem. Aside from health and safety issues, productivity is at stake.

April 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Wrestling with Windows

Who needs a wimpish Wii when you have a Windows 8 personal trainer?

April 12, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology
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