News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
What does the contents of your Dock say about you? Perhaps it's just a collection of the tools you use a lot. Or maybe you don't bother. A friend of mine still has the dock as it came with her Mac. She opens everything else from the Applications folder. Old habits die hard.
Just like the emergence of Playlistism - where you are judged as a person by the contents of your iPod playlist - could we have Dockism? In the interests of research, I have decided to share the contents of my Dock with you dear readers for you to judge my Macworth or otherwise. Perhaps what I haven't Docked is as revealing as the colorful strip of icons that stretches almost the width of my 24-inch iMac. Maybe the way I have them organised says something . . .
To continue my Mac love life from last month ... I ushered in the millennium with a Blue and White G3/400 accompanied by a G3 Wall Street PowerBook which I'd picked up on the rebound from a kind lady at AppleOz. The PowerBook is a lovely machine with beautiful rounded edges and I still have her. She'd been born just before the USB revolution which soon became a serious disadvantage. Then her removable floppy drive however was rendered inoperable by a former friend who insisted on ramming in a cheap disk whose metal bit was obviously about to break free. Which it did. Inside the drive. He then tried to make amends by removing it with a screwdriver ...
Keith White | Mar 13, 2008
I confess. I lied. In AMW Podcast 7 I claimed to have had fifteen Apple computers. It turns out it was only 13, or more accurately 12. Unless you count the three Blue and White G3s still running at two of my workplaces that I have sole responsibility for. The first was in fact a greenscreen Apple IIe around 1983. It seemed a step backwards at the time because I'd had a little fun before that programming CoCo -- a Tandy Color Computer -- in BASIC. But the school I was teaching at used AppleWorks to run everything so I thought I'd get on board. A couple of years later a colleague ushered a select few of us into a back room, closed the door behind us and unlocked a cabinet. Inside was a funny-looking square box with a tiny B/W screen that I recognised as one of those new Mac things -- a 512KE actually. What the criteria were for membership of this arcane group I still don't know, but I sometimes got to use this sacred Mac. Writing this today in Pages on my 2.16 Intel Core Duo 24-inch iMac seems along way back to poking words into MacWrite on that 9-inch screen.
Keith White | Feb 14, 2008
When I first got into multimedia in a big way in the early '90s, the word was on everyone's lips. As an early member of The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA, founded 1992) all we talked about was this new thing -- multimedia.
Keith White | Jan 21, 2008
The Designer’s Desktop Manual is a full-colour 250-page reference manual covering most aspects of design in QuarkXPress, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, DreamWeaver and Bridge.
Keith White | Dec 11, 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
Yeah, your iPhone has access to that high-speed cellular data network. But admit it: you use Wi-Fi whenever you can, right? Why, these days I’m tempted to walk into every McDonalds I pass and log in for free Wi-Fi just because I can! 3G may beat EDGE, but Wi-Fi beats both.
