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Zennaware’s Cornerstone is a (or yet another a) sexy Subversion client app for Mac OS. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m sure it’ll be pretty enough. But the site, oh, the site:

Awesome use of colours and grids in a page so informative it (kinda) hurts. I love it.

What I’d like to see differently: Screenshots should be moved to the top of the content, right after the introductory text. Screenshots is the first thing a user wants to see while checking out an app, especially a Mac user.

Moreover, I’m a sucker for big headers, but well, this one kinda hurts my 13.3” Macbook. Only thing I can see when full screen is the humongous logo, the download badge and some text.

zennaware, cornerstone, subversion

You know, after all these years online, I’ve realized I’m the traditional type. When I find something interesting online, say a nice article on typography or an inspirational CSS snippet, I don’t del.icio.us it or whatever: I want to save it somewhere in my computer and keep it away from all the bad Server Errors and Bandwidth Exceeded messages.

That, and the fact that I amass a huge amount of information over the day, led me to use some kind of PIM (Personal Information Manager) to keep it all in order. So far, I’ve used Yojimbo, Soho Notes and Together. But Together wins.

Why?

1.  I love the ability of dragging and dropping stuff to a shelf on the edge of the screen, instantly saving them. All three apps offer this kind of functionality, but I found that Together approach suited me better. Yojimbo is the worst in this aspect, I think, I remember not being able to import images directly to my library, which well, sucks.
   

   Dragging ‘n’ dropping to save notes in Together

2. Soho Notes is so, so bloated. It is full of features I never use (Contact Manager anyone?). It sure does what I want (and a ton more), but it was so sloooooooow after a while. Plus, it uses OpenBase. I mean come on. When I installed Leopard, I had forgotten to make a backup of my notes library, and I was looking for it for about two weeks. Seriously.
   

   Soho Notes: too much bloat

3. Together is intuitive, plus I love its Portrait Preview pane. It supports nested folders, tags, smart folders, all kinds of notes and snippets, and it’s very lightweight and fast to boot.
   

   A sample window of Together, me likes

If you’re in the lookout for a nice, simple and effective PIM application which support .Mac syncing, download Together and give it a chance. It’ll make your life easier and far more orderly.

together, soho notes, PIM

In what can be called a trademark Stevenote tonight, Jobs gave us everything we wanted, and then some more.

The sole thought of a mobile phone as complete (3G & GPS anyone?) and as sleek as iPhone, only for 199$, makes me cringe at all the money I’ve spent in cellphones and gadgets.

Add to that awesome apps, enterprise goodies, and memory starting from 8Gb and you have pure sex in the form of a cell phone.

I think we’re on the verge of the wave again, another “lets-catchup-to-Apple” session is starting for the big players.

apple, iphone, 3G, GPS, iphone 3G

Let’s face it: Apple.com is full of awesome design tidbits, here and there. It’s always a place where new web design ideas rise, leading to instant photo-copying all around the web.

When I was browsing the new “Get a Mac” ads tonight (check the Pep Rally by the way, I thought it was hilarious), I found out that a simple but clever way is used to denote “You are here”:

No extra images, borders around the previews, no strings, no nothing. They just make the preview look like a pressed button. I think it’s nifty. Do you?

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Apple knows this better than anyone.

Today, upon laying my iMac down on my bed to prepare it for a RAM replacement mini-operation, I was delighted to see that Apple has conveniently placed RAM replacement instructions just under the screen stand.

You would never see that if you never upgraded your RAM, which gets this out of the way for amateur users.

You can see it just where you want it, under the stand, since you have to raise the stand anyway to remove the RAM access door.

A brilliant real life example of good design - its applications in web design are oh-so-many.

apple, imac, ram, memory, replacement, design