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Plateau for Mac processors?
Recently my dad asked me what he could do to make his 2007 iMac faster. The machine is running a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor which by today's standards is woefully outdated. We had already maxed out the RAM at 6 GB (specs say it can handle 4 GB, but 6 GB are recognized) and it had a 500 GB 3.5" spinning hard drive (7200 RPM, I believe).
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My New Adventure
When I was laid off, people kept telling me that there was nothing to worry about and take some time for myself. For the first few weeks, I tried to heed the advice and took it easy while at the same time leisurely looking for a job. I treated the first month as the sabbatical that I didn't have the opportunity to enjoy and managed to make it through my inbox, my todo list, and ran out of things to do around the house.
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User Experience vs User Interface Design
Once upon a time, I claimed that I could do UI design of applications. This was back in the Newton and Palm OS days where the apps didn't do a whole lot and the developer guides had pretty clear guidelines that everyone followed. For Palm OS, it even had the number of pixels from the edges for buttons which made it quite easy to know exactly where to place objects.
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Non Standard iOS Navigation
In my years of being an iOS developer and user, I've seen a lot of apps that try to come up with their own ways of doing navigation that don't follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Over this time, Apple has changed their guidelines, but usually don't adopt some of the concepts that apps have inflicted on us.