design

Up or down? Scrolling on OS X Lion

Submitted by michael on 4. August 2011 - 23:44

Unlearning is hard. I noticed it myself when I upgraded (clean install, ahem) to Lion over the last weekend. I used the whole weekend my Mac Mini with Lion and no other computer. It took these 2-3 days to get used to the "natural" scrolling in Lion.

The strange thing happened on Monday: When I scrolled on my work computer (with Windows using scroll wheel), I really felt that the text moved in the 'wrong' direction - unnaturally.

X300 parody on Air

Submitted by michael on 4. May 2008 - 21:21

This one is funny ;-)

Upcoming ThinkPad X300

Submitted by michael on 22. February 2008 - 5:04

The BusinessWeek article "Building the Perfect Laptop" occurs shortly before the ThinkPad X300 is supposed to be announced.

Apple subnotebook to be announced in January

Submitted by michael on 12. December 2007 - 1:07
After months of rumors an Apple subnotebook is expected to be announced in January next year. This is according to a CNBC broadcast by Jim Goldman. I am curious about the specs and I could imagine that this might become my first Mac computer.

African fractals

Submitted by michael on 29. November 2007 - 23:47

Ethno-mathematician is certainly a strange sounding profession. This talk from Ron Eglash is absolutely fascinating. He shows how intuition and tradition lead to fractal designs exhibiting robust and excellent qualities. While mathematics is not used in the process, Ron discovers the mathematical concepts after the fact.

Legacy ASIN: 
Image of African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
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