Two-and-a-half years after the launch of OS X 10.0, Macs still ship with Until just recently, Mac users were essentially second-class citizens when itĬame to surfing the web. We're all about anything that makes theĬomputing experience smoother. Proprietary system to automate Mac OS X's GUI. Quickeys attempts to remedy this by using its own Recording macros are either application specific, or require some knowledge of The idea of recording macros is not new, of course, but most ways of You see is literally what you do, and what you get is literally what you'veĭone. Quickeys is a kind of WYSIWYG macro generator. Underthumb has popped the hood on Macro generator Looking to automate your OS X experience? Forum denizen Quickeys X2: Mac automation for the rest of us? It's a cool product, and this the kind of review You can spin it like NAMBLA, but that's what was going on, thatĭid you get that? I sure did - after reading Jade's review I Nights with adults in tights, mostly men, except for an Ayn Rand look-alike Zan and Jayna fought crime alongside the Super Friends by day and spent Linear Sequential Model and aphorisms decrying copyright, there are the Wonder Something of software development, and again there is a metaphor. To understand the metaphor that is iPulse is to understand iPulse is a metaphor, a means by which the complex is madeĪccessible. The same could be said of a colonoscopy and a human being, but that's not Says, that doesn't say a whole heck of a lot. Wondering what iPulse is? In simple terms, anĪpplication that graphically displays the inner workings of Mac OS X. For Mac OS X users, "top" always an option. Most users like to know what their computer is up to - things like how muchįree memory is available, current CPU usage, battery life remaining, andĪvailable disk space. Its laurels and be content with its large market share? Is InDesign CS a compelling alternative to QuarkXPress, or can Quark sit on InDesign, then code-named "Dragontail." Deciding to put aside my skepticismįor a moment, I decided to find out what was new with InDesign 3. Then my friend who worksįor Adobe in France signed me up as a beta tester for the next iteration of Paradigm for no compelling reason was a non-starter. Quark did and how it did it, so asking people to adopt a new interface Long-time Arsian (and QuarkXPress user)Īs someone who tinkered with InDesign 1, I've long been skeptical aboutĪdobe's ability to make a convert out of me. Now Adobe InDesign CS is out,Īnd many are wondering if this is finally the version worthy of the Quark killer QuarkXPress remained king of the publishing hill.
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