More Mac vs PC thoughts. I kinda kick myself for continuing to think about this, and yet, I think the current swing in the Mac vs PC war is really interesting to study, even if it’s not just for my personal purchasing decisions. I took a quick stab at calculating “time lost” on a PC […]
The whole thing about General Electric not paying any US taxes is amazing, but I’m not surprised. The Citizens United supreme court case, on the other hand, was a little bit more surprising. But I think what bothers me the most is the implication of the combination of the two. History class taught me the […]
random thought #2. Paradoxically, docking and undocking on my x201 might actually be slower than doing the 3 cable dance on the macbook pro. At “dock” time, OSX is a bit faster about reconfiguring the display and finding the mouse and keyboard I just plugged in, even if plugging them in took a bit longer. […]
Random thought of the day #1 The whole iOS vs Android thing has taught the world many lessons, but one I noticed today was a simple one: It’s easier to become more open than less open. Like I’ve written before, companies have the greatest positive impact on the world when they arrive at “open enough”. […]
Here’s a quick font rendering sample I put together. In each set, the top is IE9’s new direct-write rendering (with subpixel positioning), the middle is standard cleartype, and the bottom is from Safari on the mac. The font is Arial, because that’s the one that seems hardest to render at small sizes. I’d say that […]
I think my TV has a bug. If I turn on the TV with my PC (plugged into the HDMI) off, then I get ~36 channels on the auto program scanner (hooked up to my powered antenna). If the PC is on, however, then I only get 5. It seems like somehow the PC sending […]
Dear browser designers. Please find a way to put my bookmarks bar next to my URL bar. Increasingly, the tab bar is becoming the equivalent of the taskbar, with each app taking up a slot. So IE9-ish combining of URL and tab bar seems constraining. What is easier to constrain, is the layout of my bookmark […]
So it’s finally out for real. Who knew they would beat FF4 to release. Seems pretty snappy so far, though I’ve already hit a few compatibility problems (including tumblr), but in those cases, compatibility mode seems to work OK. You can find lots of information about it’s benchmarks and features elsewhere, so I’ll just focus […]