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Aqua Icon Design

O’Reilly Network: Breaking into the Business: An Interview with Michael Matas [Nov. 01, 2002] discusses some of the challenges of designing icons (and artowork in general) for Aquified user interfaces. Most interestingly is the fact that Michael Matas was 17 and in High School at the time that he was hired by “(extlink)Omni Group”:http://www.omnigroup.com to ...

Panther Fast User Switching

p. David Every has some criticisms of Apple’s new Panther Operating system, that in many ways seem unfounded in an article at www.iGeek.com.

iTunes for Windows

iTunes for Windows
p. “iTunes for Windows “:http://www.apple.com/itunes has been making quite a splash. After a couple of days of using it, I have to say that people who have been using iTunes on the Mac will probably be thrilled, and people who are used to “Winamp”:http://www.winamp.com or “Musicmatch”:http://www.musicmatch.com will probably prefer it after using it for a ...

New 20 Dollar Bills

New 20 Dollar Bills
p. “The Bureau of Engraving and Printing”:http://www.moneyfactory.com/ has announced the creation and distribution of the new “Series 2004” $20 bills. They hope to deter piracy which has become increasingly simple in the age of digital photocopiers and photoshop, while still maintaining the basic look behind the US currency. Personally, I’d love to see them adopt ...

MacOSX 10.3 “Panther” Coming Out

Apple’s announced that “OSX 10.3”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/ will be released this month on October 24th. The feature set looks quite impressive, and hopefully the speed gains will be as impressive as promised.