September 5, 2007 at 12:05 am · Filed under On the Web, Hardware, Applications
The popularity of my posts regarding the Mac, Apple, Parallels Desktop and the iPhone kept me blogging on those topics. That chatter has in turn been diluting the conversation that should be taking place here.
So, I’ve carved out another space on this big series of tubes, and this time it is just for those Apple topics. Please visit On a Mac for a continuation of the conversations which started here as well as new Apple-related content altogether.
Tags: Apple, Apple II, Apple Lisa, Apple Support, Apple TV, Applications, Hardware, iLife, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Lisa Office System, MacBook Pro, Macintosh, On the Web, os x, OS X Disk Utility, Parallels Coherence, Parallels DesktopShare This
March 30, 2007 at 12:47 pm · Filed under Information Architecture, On the Web, Visual Design, Applications, User Interface, User Experience
If you’re into user interface or user experience design, you’ll probably be a fan of GUIdebook. The site features screen captures of just about any operating system you can think of, timelines for releases by OS, icons, sounds (unfortunately this section covers only a few versions of Microsoft Windows and OS/2), splash screens for applications and more.
A few favorite areas on the site:
- The visual display of how various operating systems visually executed the same interfaces (right side of page, under ‘components’).
- Common icons as represented by different operating systems.
- The tutorials that many operating systems provided.
Some of the GUIs represented on the site: Amiga OS, Apple II, GEOS/GeoWorks (which ran on the Commodore 64 and 128 as well as the Apple II), Lisa Office System, OS X, Windows, and Xerox Star/ViewPoint/Global View.
Tags: Amiga, Apple II, Apple Lisa, Applications, Commodore 128, Commodore 64, Icons, Information Architecture, Lisa Office System, Macintosh, On the Web, Operating Systems, os x, PC, Sounds, User Experience, User Interface, Vista, Visual Design, Windows, Xerox StarShare This
