Felix.

mangling metaphors like nobody's biscuits

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Terry Lucy: So, I've owned a Mac for over six months now

minimalmac:

terrylucy:

Some of you may remember my delight as I purchased my very first Mac (2010 MacBook Air, 128 GB w/ 4 GB RAM) back in March this year. Its been over six months now, so I should have downloaded a ton of Apps and have loads to say about them, right? No. I still use the same 5-6 Apps I had installed within the first month of getting my MacBook Air.

Why?

Well, because I am learning. While I was still getting to grips with Snow Leopard, Apple went and dumped Lion on me, which was an addition to an already steep learning curve. I can’t bring myself to download and try new applications before I have mastered what came out of the factory.

What we believe in, Mr. Lucy.

Don’t you think “believe” a loaded a word in this context? Especially combining it with “we”?

Minimalism in tech is great a philosophy. However, words like “belief” evoke connotations of its cousin “faith”. That’s dangerously close to turning it from philosophy into ideology.

(Disclaimer: I’m an atheistic European English major. It’s likely that I’m overly sensitive on this issue.)

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Thumbwrestling

I just had my first iOS-induced interference effect:

After using Twitter for iPad for an hour I switched to Tweetie on my desktop, where I instinctively swiped up on my magic trackpad to scroll down. Which didn’t work.

Since iOS is based on direct manipulation, swiping up to scroll down is intuitive. The only instance where swiping down also scrolls down is the 2-finger down swipe on an @-reply in Twitter for iPad, which brings up the preceding conversation.