Aaron Brethorst (Page 111)

Nov 29, 2006
UI Design

WgeTF: are Windows apps just lame?

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...

Nov 29, 2006

Pitchers of Liquors and Milk

I just discovered that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is a frequent contributor to his band’s Wikipedia page (or perhaps it’s just someone claiming to be Colin…). Very funny.

Nov 29, 2006
Apple

Oh yeah, iRooster

Chimp Software has released iRooster 2.2, the alarm clock for Mac OS X. To celebrate, they are offering an iPod Nano (PRODUCT)RED edition to one lucky customer. This update features full Intel compatibility as a Universal Binary, updates to its ea...

Nov 28, 2006
Cocoa

Styling NSWindows in Cocoa

Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of...

Nov 27, 2006
Innovation

On preventing the collapse of Western civilization

Much has been written about the imminent decline of Western civilization due to the twin threats of text and instant messages. I’ve always prided myself on my ability to write complete sentences, but I occasionally worry about whether today’s adol...