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“Data caps that may make logical sense today make no sense tomorrow, yet once they are in place they’ll tend to stay in place.”

PeachMac is an Apple retail store owned by Darryl Peck. Darryl is a long-time Apple user, former developer, and founder of the first ever Internet retail site outpost.com.

Nicole Carter interviewed Darryl for Inc.com, talking about how he maintains and supports the Apple brand, while also being competitive with Apple stores:

> Even though I am competing with this powerhouse brand, I think we’ve done a good job keeping up. And it’s also awe-inspiring. The iPad, for example, is the hottest piece of consumer electronics in the world. I’ve been in this business a long time, and the iPad launch was like being in 1995 when the World Wide Web came around. You just knew it was going to change the way we lived.

I don’t use Spaces ever. And I only use full-screen apps when I have my MacBook Air detached from my external monitor (full-screen apps on a 23-inch Cinema display have been known to cause neck strain). But, for the ardent enthusiasts of Spaces who find themselves frustrated to no end about the re-org that Mission Control brought, Matt Gemmell’s tips may put you at ease.

Thomas Brand, though he loves his 13-inch MacBook Pro, concedes that its days are numbered. And I agree.

Want to know my wild guess on how it will all pan out? I see it happening something like this:

• Apple introduces a 15-inch MacBook Air.
• The Air lineup (11, 13, 15) becomes the premier family of laptops.
• The 13-inch MacBook Pro gets discontinued.
• I wouldn’t be surprised if the 15-inch MacBook Pro (as we know it today) gets discontinued as well. I could see the MacBook Pro line as only being available in the 17-inch model, the way the MacBook model was only available in 13-inch.

(Via Stephen M. Hackett.)

Last week I picked up a 256 GB i7 and fortunately it came with a Samsung SSD.

The tech blogs are saying that in real-world experience we probably wouldn’t even notice the difference between the slower Toshiba drive and the faster Samsung drive. But as nerds, that’s not the point. Knowing you just bought something that’s even the slightest bit slower than another available option makes you want to shake your fist in the air and shout, ARRG!

Ben and I talk about MacBook Airs: my new i7 and his old Core 2 Duo. All in all it’s a pretty light conversation.

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Jurjen Versteeg’s graduation project as part of his dissertation on title design:

Designed as a possible title sequence for a fictitious documentary, this film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed.

More info about Versteeg’s video in this interview on Forget the Film, Watch the Titles.

Joseph Cohen:

They reversed the direction of mouse scrolling! Crazy! But really, they needed to. With Lion, Apple is trying to change the user experience metaphor that has governed OS design since the 80s. It was a symbolic move, but one, to me, that ties together the new interaction paradigm — you interact with the content, not the OS.

A few months ago, when I first installed the Developer Preview of Lion, I turned off the reverse (“Natural”) scrolling in about 10 seconds. Once Lion shipped last week a lot of folks kept touting that if you give it a week or two you’ll learn to love it. So I turned the Natural Scrolling back on and committed to give it 2 weeks.

Similar to when I transitioned to a standing desk, the first few days were rough. But I’ve quickly acclimated to the Natural Scrolling. Though there have been a handful of times when I had to stop and think about which way to scroll to move the page the way I wanted to, the truth is I’m now a fan.

A clever workaround from Andy McCray for when you’re doing web design mockup in Photoshop and you want Typekit fonts to be in the design:

On a recent project, I began using a local Typekit sandbox — a static HTML page where I could run wild playing with my desired typeface and, as my design evolved, manipulate it with ultimate precision. Using basic HTML to markup my page and CSS to style it, I was able to easily create and style paragraphs, headings, lists, and, best of all, position text in boxes that fitted snugly into my Photoshop mockup.

(Via Matt Haughey.)

Thanks to MacStories’ miscellaneous Lion tips and tricks for this Terminal code to disabling the bouncing and sliding animations in Mail:

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES

 

Ahhh. That’s much better.

This “Moomumentary” from Coudal Partners captures the origin stories of 3 of the many unique curators found in the Museum of Online Museums.