Some thoughts about Apple
Apple January 16th, 2008I have some random thoughts about Apple which I do not want to release as single posts on this blog, so here they are in the order of appearance. ;-)
MacBook
Before Christmas I bought myself a present and bought a MacBook in order to use it as my private and partly commercial developing machine. My father always told me to switch to the Mac platform, as he is working with Macs since the Apple //c which was released in 1984... Anyway, since I work a lot with qooxdoo ;-) I also wanted to have a native unix-based working environment.
OS X Console font
I never really liked Apple's default mono space font Monaco. Andale Mono looks much better, but my absolute favorite is Inconsolata.
Multi touch gestures
Since I wrote about mouse gestures I was very excited to see the multi touch technology integrated in the new MacBook Air. I really like to see Apple developing better user interfaces. And hey, I want this gestures for my MacBook, too. ;-)
August 25th, 2008 at 22:39
[...] people thought that this should had happened earlier after my (second, I dare to say) switch to the Mac, but it happened not until last week: I switched to TextMate as my main [...]
November 16th, 2008 at 17:53
[...] multi touch gestures are really nice (I finally can use them – yay!) and I think I will use them a lot when I work without a mouse [...]