Bring Stacks home: The Prove Shelves by Creosa
Faithful Macenstein reader Jim came across these crazy newfangled shelves on freshome that bear a striking resemblance to Leopard’s Stacks. While ordinary bookshelves can only mimic Leopard’s Stacks feature’s “grid view”, the Prove Shelves, designed by the German company Creosa, do a very respectable job mimicking Leopard’s “fan”... Read More
Show OS X you hate it with “Teh Icons”
Adobe’s icon set for its CS3 suite is arguably the worst ever. (Well, really, there is no argument, but some people apparently blindly defend Adobe the way most of us blindly defend Apple). If you happen to be one of those Adobe lovers that thinks the simplicity of their faux periodic table of elements icons set (which in reality wasn’t meant to mimic the periodic... Read More
Finally, an iPod accessory even Greenpeace can’t bash (too much)
Sure we all love the environment, but the iPod is just so cool… If only there were a way to listen to our iPods while killing the planet… more slowly… Faithful Macenstein reader meggert turned us on to Bird-Electron EZ17-B iPod Recycling Speaker, the most “green” iPod speaker you can buy make yourself. This unique speaker relies on the well known... Read More
Say it ain’t so, Jonny!
Gizmodo has posted a somewhat incendiary piece outlining some rather unmistakable design similarities between the work of Apple’s Jonathon Ives and Dieter Rams, the famous 1960’s era designer for Braun. Gizmodo stops short of accusing Ives of ripping off Rams, instead merely saying that Rams’ work has influenced “every single product at Apple, from hardware... Read More
TUAW admits their Leopard makeover was the biggest mistake ever made by anybody ever in the history of everything
We love TUAW, we really do, but when they changed over the look of their site from the lovely “Aqua-inspired, soothing blue” to the jarring “ugly-as-all-hell Leopard space” theme, well, it was just wrong. Luckily, it looks like TUAW’s New Year’s resolution to not be hideous is one they might stick to, as they appear to be back on track with... Read More
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