A few months ago, I cleaned up one of the basement rooms at our company, went on an Ikea shopping spree, and created my own, quiet office. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the camaraderie of working alongside my coworkers, but sometimes I just need to concentrate. And concentrate I have. Actually, a bit too [...]
Posts Tagged ‘apps’
Using Mac Mail.app with Keyboard Maestro
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
I recently switched from Postbox to Mail.app, in Lion, to manage my work email. I can’t say exactly why, except perhaps that I’m always trying new software in hopes of finding an improvement. Overall, Mail.app has felt like an improvement. But one feature I missed sorely was the ability to hit a few keys and [...]
Rdio: Initial review and impressions
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
I’ve never been a huge fan of music subscription services. There’s something about not actually owning the digital files that makes me nervous. Plus, it seemed impractical to not have local files when I wanted to play music from my phone. However, the other day I was listening to the B and B podcast where [...]
Sparrow, and how one UX decision ruins a product
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
I really appreciate a lot of what Sparrow, the minimalist email app, has to offer. In fact, I’d probably replace GMail’s web interface it, except for one interface decision that (at least for me) ruins the app. It’s the position of the button to access labels. That button resides in the far, bottom left corner [...]
Perhaps Not the Best Thing to Store in the Cloud
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
LastPass, the website which securely stores all your passwords on their servers, recently posted this security alert on their blog: After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received [...]
