watchingapple.com — Apple UI designers have learned how to grab your attention using a classic physical animation technique called squash and stretch. Think of a cartoon nose squishing exaggeratedly as it bumps into a wall, then going pop! as it pulls away?that?s squash and stretch. Animators have been using it for decades to give their drawn figures depth and weight
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Closed AccountJun 16, 2007
Looking at Leopard, it doesnt look like they know anything except how to copy
scheissenJun 16, 2007
ooh lame, I don't care
shark615Jun 16, 2007
why is he being dugg down? h is 100% all you apple monkeys love pointing out how MS steals s**t yet when apple does it is learning ro adapting or improving
crazybritJun 16, 2007
Yeah, Apple are borrowing idea from Pixar. Like how they borrowed rectangles from the shape of a book! It all makes sense now.
regeyaJun 17, 2007
Agreed, but I'm surprised that a 20+year computer-using grizzled veteran would use KDE. Why not Ratpoison? Or why be an X11-using weenie at all? Those of us who've been using computers for 20+ years shouldn't use anything other than a text console using the most eccentric command shell possible, or else we're obviously drooling morons.I got introduced to PC hardware thanks to Rat Shack 20 years ago. Before that, it was Apple hardware at school. Nowadays, I use KDE at home and OS X at work. Why KDE? Because I don't have to dick around with it. Why OS X at work? Because that's what they use at work, and I like to be able to gas up the car and buy food. I use a screensaver at work and at home. I'm neither a teenager nor a noob. At work it's a port of a KDE clock screensaver, and at home it's mostly pix of my daughter's 1st birthday and Christmas (she's now 2.) When I'm doing design work, I use a flat grey desktop background, but I'll not switch to using an entirely neutral background all the time. Why? Because that flat grey does something to the psyche, man. It eats at you, gives you the blahs, what have you, which is why I set up KDE to have a muted variation of the Ubuntu Human colors, and a lovely collection of nature shots for the background. No icons; desktop icons are for noobs and idiots (there, how ya like THAT juvenile overgeneralization? :-P)On OS X, though, I disable bouncing icons, drop shadows, and reinstall the latest UNO after every relevant Software Update. As I said, I like muted colors when I'm doing design work, and people who fell for the whole "lickable interface" line back when OS X was introduced are chumps. Don't fall for the hype; believe in the relatively sturdy, desktop-publishing-ready powerhouse instead.
shark615Jun 17, 2007
What? Are you ignoreing the fact that Apple ripped it off first from Xerox? Microsoft wasn't the first to borrow concepts from compitors and it won't be the last.