I like many things that Apple does from a design perspective, and I hate to be too critical, but after upgrading my old iMac to Mac OS X 10.9, I honestly can't think of anything I like better from a UX perspective in OS X 10.9 compared to OS X 10.6. Rather than just say, “I don’t like 10.9” and keep whining about it, I started to keep a list of the things I don't like about 10.9, and it goes something like this:
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After nearly an hours’ work, I just learned that the MLB.com NexDef plugin is not supported on Mac OS X 10.9. You can read more about it hear on the MLB.com support forum.
I have a subscription to MLB.com, and just turned on the Chicago Cubs game from two days ago, and wow, that park in Mesa, AZ looks just like Wrigley Field, at least the area behind the pitcher, and the dugouts. For a moment I thought they were in Wrigley, before I thought about the whole winter thing.
The 2014 Iditarod race begins today in Anchorage, Alaska. It’s hard to believe that it has been three years since I was at the 2011 race. (Original photo is here on Instagram.)
I like PHP for certain tasks, but I thought this was funny. From this link on Twitter.
I could have one of these in Talkeetna. I had to remember not to put my coffee cup on the deck railing or else you-know-who would check it out. Image from this McPhee web page.
I’ve known more than a few scientists, and this is way too true. Fortunately I ran into an advisor at one point who gave me this simple advice: “When you find yourself writing crap, try to figure out what it is that you’re really trying to say, and just say it, without any extra words."
If this is true, wow, that’s crazy. I’m guessing the data is at least a little skewed, especially if you count Kindle as “Android”, and so on. Image from this story.
I just learned that the Scala Cookbook is on the O’Reilly “Top-25 five-star rated books” list, as shown in the image. You can find the Cookbook and other top-rated O’Reilly books at this url: http://oreil.ly/N7v2nm
If you want to use AppleScript with Java 7 on Mac OS X (10.9, in my case), you’ll find that it no longer works. The solution is to use the technique shown in the image, which I learned about at this URL on netbeans.org.
A thing I really like about Alaska is that rather than have a “funeral” when someone passes away, they have a “Celebration of Life” to honor the person’s life. Personally, I think that’s a much better approach.
This image comes from a pictorial of 10 beautiful Mac app concepts. None of them really blew me away, but I liked the bold contrast of this one.
This infographic comes from this story, and shows acquisitions in the tech industry over the last 15 years.
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