News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
When Steve Jobs announced the shiny new Core 2 Duo iMacs, he made special mention of how recyclable its components were. That’s great for the environment in five years time when these iMacs get recycled, but what are we to do with all those older, less recyclable models?
Alex Kidman | Oct 21, 2007
1. New Vintage Type — Classic Fonts for the Digital Age is a font fanatics delight. At nearly 200 pages with 400 illustrations in full colour this book styles itself as “a critical survey of how modern artwork uses old type to evoke another time and place”. Or in the ironic words of American type designer Frederick Goudy, "those old guys stole our best ideas”.
Keith White | Oct 21, 2007
Played with this? It’s in the second-last row of your system preferences and looks a little like a minimalist graphics designer got to da Vinci’s famous “Vitruvian Man”. You know — the naked guy in the circle.
Martin Levins | Oct 21, 2007
I bet, as an AMW reader and your friends’ and family’s tech advisor, you’ve had the question at least 10 times in the past few years: which broadband’s the best type? Unless you’re a tech enthusiast, it’s perfectly normal not to carry round a catalogue of line speeds for different types of broadband in your head.
Dan Warne | Oct 21, 2007
The Andromeda of ancient Greek legend was a beautiful girl chained to the cliffs at the mercy of a passing sea monster. Yet this Australian developer namesake is aiming at a hero role.
Fleur Doidge | Oct 21, 2007
Shill. Lackey. Crony. Apologist. Lap dog. Fanboy. These are just a selection of the more publishable things I’ve been called by readers in the past few weeks, since the last issue came out. And that’s just from the ones with the guts and decency to contact me directly.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 21, 2007
America’s presidential election is over, and we can all be grateful for that. But in politics, the race never really ends. I think that’s the metaphor at work in Freedom Run by Spiralstorm Games. The game’s imagery is ripe with symbolism: Republicans and Democrats are bound to each other, struggling to achieve a common good just out of reach. One cannot succeed without the other. And the run, just like the ever-expanding quest for freedom, is endless. There is no finish line. And if you fall down, you get up and try again.
