As you’ve probably heard by now, Microsoft has announced the addition of Sidebar Gadgets to Vista, the next looooong awaited version of Windows. Microsoft’s Sidebar Gadgets bear an uncanny resemblance to Apple’s Dashboard Widgets. Now, I’m not going to engage in the usual Microsoft bashing about how Microsoft is always ripping off Apple’s ideas. […]
Maybe there’s a Windows user out there who can explain this Windows dialog to me… Every time I launch Virtual PC (which is only when I can’t avoid doing so; for example, to run Schwab StreetSmart Pro or one of my chess training programs), I get the above dialog: Cancel, Try Again, Continue. I […]
HE, Holland Electro, may offer the ultimate sound system for your iPod. Designed by Marcel Wanders, the new HE components include Pandora, a small wooden side table with integrated woofer; Egg, beautiful sculpted speakers; and Merlin and Mathilda, antennas for sending music from your computer or MP3 player to your speakers. I think they’d […]
Business Week has published the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) winners for 2005. “In a sea of look-alike products and services, design creates the ‘Wow!’ factor,” they write. “Design is fast becoming a must-have competency for corporations.”
Let’s hope it’s true. Mac lovers already know the value of good product design; it’s the reason many […]