The Mail program in Lion (Mac OS X v. 10.7) has a handy new “Conversation” view which shows messages in one long view, with extraneous quotations stripped out. The resulting appearance is a lot like a web-based forum. By default, Mail only shows messages that are in the currently selected mailbox. (For example, your Inbox [...]
With Lion and iLife ’11 it appears that there are two mobile interfaces (iPod/iPhone vs. iPad) and two desktop interfaces (full screen vs. windowed.) But the iPad UI and the full-screen mode for Mac OS X apps appear virtually the same. Why keep them separate? In the longrun, they won’t be. Instead of two systems [...]
Tap-to-focus is a handy feature on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. But did you know that exposure may also be affected by where you touch the image? Wherever you tap the on-screen preview (before taking a shot), your iPhone will assume that that is your subject. It will adjust exposure to make sure that [...]
IM on the iPad is in a rather sorry state right now. Ironically the free AIM client, which I normally avoid like the plague, is the most usable option for me. Current Options AIM works reliably and is free, but it only connects to AIM and Facebook chat. It occasionally jumps to a past point [...]
My iPad keyboard dock arrived today. As expected it’s almost identical to the standard Apple keyboard. It’s great so far! The “f” function keys have been replaced by a set of shortcuts for common iPad functions. From left to right: • Shows home screen (exits current application) • Search (exits current application) • Brightness down [...]