Echo… Echo..

alternateorg on July 30, 2001

I hate to say this, but the internet is very boring right now. I know Alternate sure as hell is.

But what site isn’t boring, you ask? Well, Urban Forest just got redesigned by yours truly.

Bit of a yawner

alternateorg on July 18, 2001

Macworld keynote this morning:

1. 3 new PowerMac G4s: 733, 867 and dual 800…Funky new enclosure that was accurately reported by MacOSX.org last week.. only they look a little better for real, but still, no actual presentation of it, just pictures on the screen… CDRW in the entry-level, SuperDrives in the top 2. Giant hard drives in all.. I think 40, 60 and 80. Price points: $1699, $2499, $3499

2. Faster iMacs (no more Dalmation and FlowerPower): 500, 600 and 700 G3s… CDRW across the board.

3. Apps for X: Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Maya, FileMaker, etc. The only ones available today are FileMaker and Maya.

4. MacOS X 10.1 available today as Software Update download… Movable dock, DVD playing, burning CDs in the Finder via a new ‘Burn CD’ menubar icon, super fucking fast, etc.

There was other stuff, most of it not important.. you just keep waiting until he smiles and says ‘Oh, and one more thing,’ which he didn’t say today, except the thank Apple employees and their families. So kind of a boring Macworld, but in these economic conditions for computer makers, especially with the EOL of the Cube, you can’t expect them to make too much of a leap. Still.. kind of disappointed by the lack of any change to the TiBook whatsoever.

At leat now running Linux on it would be useless..

alternateorg on July 18, 2001

In the course of my design career, I have had the utter privilege of using Macintosh computers just about exculsively. Now, it has been my experience that while the people who design the world do it on a Mac, the people who use the world do it on Windows. It makes a little bit of sense, and it’s something I’m sort of fine with. And now, if you’re a MacOS X user, you can run Windows on your Mac, as well as X. VirtualPC is nothing new, but hey, it’s on X now.

Kinda like the Star Trek movies..

alternateorg on July 11, 2001

Does anyone here remember Aldus? The company that made SuperPaint and PageMaker before Adobe bought ’em out? Well, PageMaker made it to version 7 recently, despite the fact that InDesign 1.0 was released a couple years ago… Whatever happened to InDesign? In school, we all eagerly awaited it as the ‘Quark-killer.’ Does anyone know why Adobe would keep developing PageMaker with InDesign still around? I just remember ID having a stronger feature set than QuarkXpress or PM.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha

alternateorg on July 9, 2001

It’s alive! Alive, I tell you!

Deeperhue has become automaticMEDIUM. Don’t get too attached to that site design, however, because there’s a new one on the way.

Perfect

alternateorg on June 29, 2001

So, as a Mac-user, I probably take great industrial design for granted. But my gaze just happened to fall on my Apple Pro Mouse and it hit me for the first time since I saw one for the first time that this object seriously is a thing of beauty. One of the most beautiful thigs ever created. I’m not kidding. Perfectly functional without too many ‘features,’ like the rest of the PC world’s mice.. you can launch a fucking rocket with those things with 12 buttons, and yet Apple sticks to the single-button mouse. Because the mouse has one use, and one button takes care of that wonderfully. Fuck that scroll-wheel shit, I say.