Matthew Buchanan

Retiring Jobs’ Number

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:31:41 +1200

Rob Cottingham (via Cameron Moll):

The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs’ influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iMac? iPad? OS X and Aqua? But I’m going to argue for something a lot more low-tech: the turtleneck.

That, to me, captures the excitement Jobs both conveyed and sparked in others over his vision. It wasn’t just another gadget or a feature or an online service; it was his ability to say, ‘This can help you change things.’

“Introducing Final Cut Pro X”

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:43:20 +1200

Apple: Here's Final Cut Pro X.
Editors: This is an outrage. Where is EDL? Where is OMF?! What have you done with XML?!
Apple: Shut up, nerds. Here it is. It's the future.
Editors: So help me God, I will switch to Adobe Premiere.
Apple: You do that.
Editors: That's it. I'm switching now. I am NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.
Apple: Enjoy.
Editors: Here I go. Adobe Premiere. Here I go.
Apple: Steve Jobs!

THE END

Beautiful detail in this concept and design for the 76...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:35:00 +1300

Beautiful detail in this concept and design for the 76 Synthesizer iPad app by Jonas Eriksson.

Smooth. Even. Steady. Jackson Walker is my hero.

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:14:45 +1300

Smooth. Even. Steady. Jackson Walker is my hero.

Jason Schwartzman demos the hell out of the New Yorker iPad app,...

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:50:00 +1300

Jason Schwartzman demos the hell out of the New Yorker iPad app, in a promo directed by Roman Coppola. Yeah, he did that at the end didn’t he…

Michael Flarup documents the creation of his alternatives to the...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:36:48 +1200

Michael Flarup documents the creation of his alternatives to the new iTunes 10 icon.

1024 Square

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:34:25 +1200

1024 Square:

iPad wallpapers curated by Josh Holloway. (via Matt Downey)

"Forstall is quite literally claiming perfection while a hand model holds up this terrible example of..."

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:48:48 +1200

“Forstall is quite literally claiming perfection while a hand model holds up this terrible example of everything that’s wrong with Apple’s commitment to typography.”

- Khoi Vinh dissects the rhetoric around typesetting in the new iPhone 4 promotional videos.

Smokescreen

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:13:04 +1200

Smokescreen:

Jim Ray:

The Strongbad demo will make you a believer. This thing reads the actual SWF binary and creates native, browser based executions.

Explanation from Simon Willison:

Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64-encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG.

Marco Arment:

Incredible.