The Trash icon in Mac OS X Lion does not show the details of the mesh hidden behind the front mesh for visual simplicity.
On http://www.optimum7.com blog, you can see approximate time for reading the article so that you can make a decide to read the post in detail or not. Nice feature. It shows that they care for the user’s time.
That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in his youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as force the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but knows passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. Such a one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education, for he is in harmony with nature. He will make the best of her and she of him.
source: splatf
Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they’re not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
loved the “Yes! Yes! Yes!” option! on the email charter by chris anderson. While there are thousands of posts already written about how its a good thing, i chose to write a post about this little detail.
Its way different than a typical “not sure” ” sure” “very sure” kinda poll options.
I think its a purposeful decision to know the emphasis of the users on the positive feedback. clever enough, it doubles the probability of the “yes” than the “no”.
If you care to vote, you can see the ‘easy-to-guess’ results too!
Does anybody know why Apple has removed the “Shift”,”Control” & “Option” key symbols from the new keyboards? Its really frustrating to remember / refer to the co-relation of the symbols & the keys. I may not be as smart as some other users, but having to remember almost 4 symbols ( command symbol included) its a bit of a problem. when i looked up, i found that the earlier versions had them. Somebody please enlighten!
Having said that I must acknowledge the good job they have done for the Caps lock button by giving the indicator on the key itself.
This is how my Twitter usage has evolved to. I usually like to open up many webpages one by one from the twitter links and then i read the articles in these tabs one by one. i hate to keep so many tabs open at any given time. But i realized that I tend to do it out of fear of loosing the information in that tab. (even with the “Reopen closed tab” functionality)
So I’ve kept the twitter app on the right side and I resize the chrome to fit on the remaining pace on the left side. This way I can keep clicking on the links in the twitter which keeps on opening new tabs in chrome. (this does not bother me since my focus is on twitter. The subtle screen change of new blank tab (still loading) gives me enough feedback that my click on twitter link is successful. Is there a hidden pattern here?
as I’m writing this, wondering how the “tab” pattern must have evolved ? do we need a different way to see many information bits on the web?
another very different insight from this post: I (many a times unconsciously) tend to modify my environment (physical & digital) to suit my needs. Since I do this without thinking too much about it, its more like a “trial & error” approach. I do it this way and then i may not like it after a couple of days. then I modify it again till I get something which i tend to be happy with for significant amount of time. I think all good solutions allow for this flexibility.
Imagine you are viewing a presentation on your laptop. Have you ever noticed the magic moment when you see your own reflection in the glossy monitor typically after a presentation is over? or may be in the beginning of a presentation? I love these tiny moments. While the presentation is going on, you are engrossed in it. You are in a sort of hyper reality of abstract ideas/ future business prospects / interesting presentations. And when you see yourself in the monitor reflection, you are suddenly brought into reality. You become aware of yourself in that ‘reflective’ moment…
How can we use these moments as opportunities to delight / surprise in the busy mundane life of everyday?
My wife insists on keeping the stuff in the washbasin neatly. She argues that the maid who comes to clean the utensils perceives this as less of a work. I think she has got a point. How does one perceive his/her work at the first impression makes a lot of difference to the actual work. Order makes it easy to divide the whole into smaller number of useful groups and minimalism generally leads to simplifying things. Another human aspect of the washbasin story is how keeping even the dirty things neatly can make the maid slightly happy and hence possibly a bit more efficient at her work which benefits the house owner in turn!
