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Since Apple introduced multi touch trackpad built-in for laptop line-ups, MultiClutch has been a must installed application for every newer MacBook/MacBook Pro. It’s buggy when recording shortcuts and the installation isn’t the simplest in the world.

Snow Leopard released not long ago, it brings 64 bit closer to our life. And, MultiClutch isn’t 64 bit friendly. Means you have to restart System Preferences to get it run in 32 bit. I don’t really feel nor understand the speed comparison between this geeky bits diferences, but I feel safer to just install 64 bit compatible applications as much as I could.

The new Dropbox upload interface just updated! It’s a minor, but I think it’s major in intuitive aspect.

The overlay has new longer bar.

The mini display has longer bar, and it’s going full blue when 100% state achieved.

(Yes, my upload speed is bad)

Dropbox domain is in red alert situation! Is it just me or?

PS. In case you didn’t know, they recently acquires the domain dropbox.com (was getdropbox.com and now all request will be redirected to the new domain).

10.6.2 update for Snow Leopard fixes lots of issues. But not like 10.6.1 update, the 10.6.2 will keep us busy fixing pesky font problem in Firefox (the fix is here if you need it). I just updated the fix tutorial with screenshot, so it’s more newbie friendly I hope.

The interesting part is, they have font fixes list:

• an issue with font spacing 
• an issue in which some Fonts are missing 
• font duplication issues
• an issue with some PostScript Type 1 fonts not working properly

Maybe 10.6.3 will be luckier.

I just tweaked the heading font sizes, colors, margin and padding. Recently my eyes really like text-shadow CSS element treatment used by lots of websites nowadays. So, why don’t we have it too.

Other than that, the recently updated Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s gamma monitor settings increased to 2.2 (darker) from 1.8, that  leads to more darker Stucel website (ouch). Luckily I light the header background a bit.

Should have done it since last year.

Photoshop for the iPhone released yesterday but appearantly it’s only happened in US iTunes Store. I can’t wait to try this free beast soon.

All designers in general are using Mac as their work station. Mac is superb and beautiful machine, both exterior and interior. But I think it’s to many "mac" elements brought to design work, nowadays. OS X UI + Mac applications UI + iPhone UI are everywhere. Wondering how long this trend will last.

As you might noticed, the previous blog post was sent by email. It’s dead easy to post content by email in Wordpress (built in feature) I know, but it’s tricky in Drupal (this site is using Drupal).
Once again, I’m using mailhandler module in http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler and I recommend you to read the manual here http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/mailhandler too.
Consider to use "Extra Commands" if several attempts were not successful (like me): http://drupal.org/node/207366
 
If you ask me, why email? It’s convenient! Personally I like to post by email rather then by log in to website. And, my email client is running active while I’m working in Mac.
And, I can post it from iPhone (smartphones have email app these days right?). So, email away.
 
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Felix Widjaja
Stucel - www.stucel.com

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