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- The beautifully detailed art of Mac OS X app icons
Filed under: OS, Software, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Graphic Design, Snow Leopard
Over at his blog Cult of Mac, writer Leander Kahney published a post this morning featuring full-size 512 x 512 pixel screenshots of Mac icons. As he notes, the highly detailed icons are part of a move to make the OS resolution independent, but they're also an indication of Apple's attention to detail.
Many of the icons are works of art when viewed at their full size. The TextEdit icon, for example, is actually a note from "John Appleseed" to "Kate" featuring the text of the "Here's to the crazy ones" ads of the late 1990s. The Jar Launcher app, featuring a cup of hot Java sitting on a paper napkin, reveals miniscule bubbles on the side of the coffee, as well as real Java code written on the napkin.
All of these icons are indications of the fanatical attention to detail of Apple designers. After looking at Kahney's gallery of art, I gathered my own collection of icon goodness from both Apple and third-party apps. Click the gallery icon below to see what I found. If you have found any 512 x 512 icons that are incredibly good, send 'em to us at http://tuaw.tumblr.com/submit.
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TUAWThe beautifully detailed art of Mac OS X app icons originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Snow Leopard hidden features, great video by a 16 year-old
Filed under: Video, How-tos, Found Footage, Snow Leopard
Matt Fisher is a 16 year old high school junior and Apple enthusiast who has been putting up tutorial videos on all things Macintosh since December of 2008. I just saw one that is so good I wanted to bring it to your attention.
Matt has created a video on hidden features in Snow Leopard and although we have covered some of these before, this you have to see. In four minutes and twenty-nine seconds Matt covers more content than most people can cover in an hour, and he does it with grace and total clarity.
Matt found hidden features in:
- Coverflow
- Spotlight
- Resizing of icons
- Preview viewing modes
- Hiding windows in dock icons
- More organized keyboard shortcuts
- Location based setting of time and date
- Showing the date in the menubar
- Stacks
- Text and symbol substitution
- The re-emergence of the trash 'put back' feature.
Thanks go out to Mustafa Histoni for sending in this tip.TUAWFound Footage: Snow Leopard hidden features, great video by a 16 year-old originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Apple - TUAW - Unofficial Apple Weblog - Keyboard shortcutПереслать - Flickr Find: Apple Store Carosello opening in Milan, Italy
Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, Apple, Flickr Find
Ahhhh, Milano! The name makes me think about the Milan Cathedral, La Scala, fashion models, and the aggressive drivers in that city. And now, when I think of Milan, I can also fondly think of the new Apple Store Carosello.
TUAW reader Filippo sent us a link to his Flickr gallery of the opening earlier today, which appears to have attracted a huge crowd of Apple fans. PhilApple, as he is known on Flickr, also captured the traditional "running of the geeks" in a short video upload. This is the well-known phenomenon in which the first customers are greeted by the applause, cheers, and general silliness of the Apple Store employees and other customers.
While I wish Apple had chosen to place the store in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in the Piazza Duomo, reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall, I'm happy for the Milanese to now have their very own Apple Store. Grazie, Filippo, for this set of photos!TUAWFlickr Find: Apple Store Carosello opening in Milan, Italy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: AppleStore - Milan Cathedral - Unofficial Apple Weblog - La Scala - AppleПереслать - Catch a satellite on your iPhone this weekend
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, Holidays, App Store, App Review
As summer draws to a close for much of the northern hemisphere, try to get outside for some (hopefully) clear skies and a little star gazing.
We've taken a good look at many of the star gazing apps available for the Mac and the iPhone, and I thought it would be fun to try the 'next step', an iPhone app that finds passing satellites and the International Space Station. There are a lot of websites that give you this information, but having it in an app is even nicer.
I've just tried Satellite Visibility [iTunes link], a US$2.99 app that does the job and worked for me the first time out. You tell the app where you are, or let the phone GPS determine your location. You then get a list of all the brighter manmade objects hurtling around the earth that you can see over the next couple days.
If you click on one, you get detailed info on when it appears, when it falls into the earth's shadow, and what direction to look. In addition, you get little sky maps that show where the object will be in a graphic format.
It was partly cloudy here in Arizona last night, but I did locate the International Space Station as it made about a 1 minute appearance in the southern skies before it went behind a cloud bank.
The data for the app comes from a useful website called Heavens Above which has the information that this iPhone app picks up and uses.
The charts are helpful, but the trail of the satellite against the sky is sometimes subtle on the small iPhone screen. Even though I had my GPS radio on, each time I used the app it turned that option off. It does retain your last location, but I think it should just grab the info and not change my settings.
There are other similar apps available for the iPhone, some more expensive; others are free but missing some features that Satellite Visibility has. I think this app has a nice mix for the money.
If all you want is info for passes of the International Space Station, the developer has a US$1.99 app [iTunes app] that skips all the other satellite data.
I think hunting satellites is fun on a nice clear night, so here's a fresh holiday weekend activity you might enjoy.
Click below for a few screen shots:
TUAWCatch a satellite on your iPhone this weekend originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - appstore - Apple - TUAW - International Space StationПереслать - From Berlin with love: Hama cases for rumored iPod touch with camera
Filed under: Rumors, iPod nano, iPod touch
It's no secret that next week's Apple event is built around the iPod, and all signs point towards new iPod touch and iPod nano models with a marquee new feature: cameras. As the cavalcade of case manufacturer leaks continues, Engadget visited with case builder Hama at the IFA trade show in Berlin and got plenty of pictures of the new cases for both models, complete with camera ports.
Even allowing for the possibility of mass hysteria among scores of accessory vendors, one thing to keep in mind here is that this same firm -- Hama -- was among the first to show new cases for the iPod nano 4G, last year at this very same event. Check out the gallery of images from Germany and let us know what you think.TUAWFrom Berlin with love: Hama cases for rumored iPod touch with camera originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPod - IpodNano - IpodTouch - Apple - BerlinПереслать
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