OK, it’s nearly time for the hartnup.net Macintosh 2005 judgement, but before I look at the whole, I can’t resist getting a little bit more specific, and talking about one application: iPhoto, and its primary Windows competition, Picasa 2.
(Moved the rest of this behemoth post to a page outside the blog)
If, like me, you’re curious about what’s happened to the Macintosh user interface in the last ten years, but not quite curious enough to spend £340 (the cost of a Mac Mini — at the moment second hand Macs don’t seem competitively priced against a new Mini) on the experience, here is a PDF [...]
The old Mac vs PC one-mouse-button vs two-mouse-buttons “debate” is raging once again over on Slashdot.
I’ll quickly state my position on that: the best mouse driven interfaces I’ve used are Sun’s OpenWindows (now very obscure) and Acorn’s RISC OS (which was always pretty niche too). Both mapped three mouse buttons to the functions “select” [...]