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	<title>Confessions of a User Experience Junkie</title>
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		<title>On Text Editors and Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watts Martin posts a great review of the current state of Mac text editors. It&#8217;s framed thusly: As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a TextMate user for the last few years, albeit increasingly reluctantly&#8230; A lot of old TM users have been looking for the Editor That Will Be TextMate 2.0 By Default. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2011/05/06/on-text-editors-and-dreams/</link>
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		<title>A Quick Thought on NYT Digital Pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daring Fireball: The New York Times’s legacy business is the printed newspaper. They charge less for a print subscription than an all-inclusive digital subscription, despite the fact that all print subscriptions include an all-inclusive digital subscription. This makes no sense. You pay less but get something that intuitively bears a significant real cost: hundreds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2011/03/22/a-quick-thought-on-nyt-digital-pricing/</link>
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		<title>More on New iPods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TUAW illustrates what I&#8217;ve been thinking about the nano branding: the new nano isn&#8217;t an evolution of the old, it&#8217;s a new product category (or maybe an evolution of the shuffle). It&#8217;s different enough that keeping the same name leads to expectations of the product. This is similar to what happened when the mini was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/09/03/more-on-new-ipods/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on New iPods, etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new iPod lineup looks great. If you like tiny, focused devices you get your choice of iPod-shuffle-like devices: inexpensive with no screen but tactile controls, or no tactile controls, a touchscreen, and a few more features for a few (okay, three times as many) more bucks. Otherwise, the convergence devices are where it&#8217;s at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/09/01/thoughts-on-new-ipods-etc/</link>
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		<title>H.264 Red Herrings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DF, regarding hardware acceleration for Flash video: clearly, [Adobe and Apple are] working together to make Flash perform better on Mac OS X. True, perhaps, for some values of &#8220;working&#8221; and &#8220;better&#8221;. Adobe&#8217;s attempt to excuse themselves for poor Flash performance on the Mac by arguing that Apple didn&#8217;t provide necessary hardware acceleration APIs was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/04/30/h-264-red-herrings/</link>
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		<title>IOKIYAJ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Macalope (via DF): Shorter EFF: buying stolen merchandise is fine as long as you write a story about it. The EFF does lots of great work, but this seems a bit much. If felony theft is justifiable when it&#8217;s part of a journalistic endeavor, what other crimes are okay if you&#8217;re a journalist? There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/04/26/iokiyaj/</link>
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		<title>Post-PC Multitasking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Neven Mrgan (via Gruber): Trying to “clean out” your tray is not a habit you want to get into. It’s pointless, and besides, you can never win &#8211; as soon as you run another app, in the tray it’ll go. It’s like the world’s worst game of Whac-A-Mole. Instead, learn to see the tray [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/04/15/post-pc-multitasking/</link>
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		<title>iPad is here (here) ((here))&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple changed the big banner image on their home page last week&#8230; when you look at it on an iPad, it might make you think of this:]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/04/12/ipad-is-here-here-here/</link>
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		<title>Apple, Adobe, Flash, and iPhone OS: A Primer for the Uninitiated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somebody recently asked me what&#8217;s going on with the recent conflict between Apple and Adobe. Is Flash really that bad? In short, yes. But that&#8217;s probably not a useful answer to anybody. (Neither is &#8220;In long, yyyyeeeeeessssssssssssssssssss&#8221;.) So where does someone just now discovering the issue turn? John Gruber&#8216;s written a ton of very insightful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2010/04/11/apple-adobe-flash-and-iphone-os-a-primer-for-the-uninitiated/</link>
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		<title>Safari 4: &#8220;Delicious&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heh. &#8220;Perhaps I’ll get back into the swing of things soon,&#8221; I said in the last post&#8230; two and a half years ago. I guess I&#8217;ve just been reluctant to publicly talk the talk about UE issues when I haven&#8217;t been publicly walking the walk lately. (Yes, I need to stop tinkering and start releasing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2009/03/04/safari-4-delicious/</link>
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		<title>Back from the dead.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoa, I have a blog? I almost forgot&#8230; It&#8217;s been an interesting couple of years since I last wrote, but perhaps I&#8217;ll get back into the swing of things soon. For now, I&#8217;ve migrated the old blog content onto a new WordPress 2.0 install, which of course comes with a change of theme. (Which may change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2006/08/31/back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<title>The Good, the Bad, and the Tog: Efficiency Isn&#8217;t Everything.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve mentioned this here (or in any of the other public forums for my thoughts on UE) before, but I have this general skepticism towards many of the so-called luminaries in my field. There&#8217;s the academic HCI experts whose research is of little use outside of their ivory towers, the web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2004/01/19/the-good-the-bad-and-the-tog-efficiency-isnt-everything/</link>
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		<title>Yes, I&#8217;m alive. (Also: Bluetooth Rocks!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah&#8230; so I haven&#8217;t posted in a while, huh? How I managed to be deprived of opportunities and/or motivation to write in this journal for the last six months or so is a long story, perhaps for another time. Suffice to say that my professional and personal lives are now (finally) back in a state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2004/01/14/yes-im-alive-also-bluetooth-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Direct Manipulation and Drag &amp; Drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s Human Interface Guidelines have long embraced the principle of direct manipulation: when the user handles the icons/text/etc on the screen, she should feel she&#8217;s &#8220;really&#8221; handling the objects they represent. This concept dovetails with that of perceived stability: The onscreen environment should behave as though it conforms to a set of predictable, understandable rules; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/05/05/direct-manipulation-and-drag-drop/</link>
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		<title>Oooo, spiffy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In lieu of a new entry this weekend, we have a new stylesheet. Feedback is welcome, though I&#8217;ll probably be tweaking it a bit (and adding a few alternate stylesheets) in the days to come. (Quite welcome, actually&#8230; this is my first attempt at this complex a CSS-only layout.) Oh, and if you like the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/04/20/oooo-spiffy/</link>
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		<title>The Alphabet According to Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somebody noticed recently that the top result for a Google search on the letter &#8220;A&#8221; is www.apple.com, and then Rael noticed recently that the same is true for &#8220;O&#8221; and www.oreilly.com. From there, we get this interesting variation of a Zeitgeist: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/04/13/the-alphabet-according-to-google/</link>
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		<title>App organization and Disk Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about OS X is how Apple and the developer community have found a way to do application packaging and distribution that encourages good organization. Application &#8220;bundles&#8221; and disk images solve (or at least improve on) a bunch of problems we had on OS 9 in a way most of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/04/05/app-organization-and-disk-images/</link>
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		<title>New title. Cheesy? Yup.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But at least it&#8217;s unique. Well, probably unique, according to some quick Googling. Speaking of which, my title uniqueness search turned up somebody else&#8217;s comments on Apple&#8217;s Find File functionality &#8212; its author pines for the BeOS search interface of old, where search result windows were exactly like folder windows and could be saved as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/04/05/new-title-cheesy-yup/</link>
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		<title>Designing for the silent majority.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s tech writers have done a pretty good job so far of rewriting the Human Interface Guidelines for Mac OS X. Instead of yet another addendum to the original (leaving us wondering which older parts are obsolete and which not), the Aqua HIG incorporates many of the universal recommendations of the original while replacing all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/04/03/designing-for-the-silent-majority/</link>
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		<title>What were you thinking, Apple?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, so it&#8217;s again been awhile since I updated this blog. I&#8217;ve been composing what&#8217;s becoming a long essay on software installation/distribution methods&#8230; probably gotta cut it down a bit, but first I have to finish it But I couldn&#8217;t help but notice how crazy the installation scheme for one of Apple&#8217;s latest software updates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rick.icons.cx/2003/03/21/what-were-you-thinking-apple/</link>
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