The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile

Interesting article on the New Yorker site, “The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile” about Susan Kare who was the designer of the original Mac computer icons back in the 1980s. I didn’t realise she was creative director at Pinterest now.

“But I loved the puzzle-like nature of working in sixteen-by-sixteen and thirty-two-by-thirty-twopixel icon grids, and the marriage of craft and metaphor.”

My favourite new feature in OSX 10.7 Lion

This has got to be one of my favourite new ‘features’ in OSX Lion, it’s found inside the iCal app:

That unnecessary ‘s’ when displaying ‘1’ unit of time has bugged me for at least the last two versions of OSX, such a simple attention to detail but one strangely overlooked by Apple for such a long time! Now my OCD brain can stay calm when adding new events into iCal!