Nick Chapman

Hey Apple Developer Registration Form, those are some terrible options except for me where they fit perfectly.

iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features

Hello 4.0! This is going to be a great release. I’m very excited about the Mail improvements. A unified inbox is going to save me so much button pushing, and multiple Exchange accounts will get Google Sync back in action. We’re even going to have multitasking! Everything is wonderful right? Right??

Well, almost. I think that the glaring omission from today’s event was an update to how notifications are displayed. It looks like the ridiculous modal alert boxes are here to stay for now at least. This is incredibly disappointing. After my wonderful experience with WebOS notifications, I was really, really hoping that Apple would do something similar. My hopes have been dashed. I guess there’s always next year.

petervidani:

In case you were wondering, this is the button that Ivy Leaguers running A/B tests will produce.

I’ve noticed a somewhat annoying trend where iPad app designers are putting a “frame” around the content of their applications. Nobody did this on the iPhone because pixels were too precious, but it seems the iPad’s plethora of pixels are begging to be wasted. In all the cases below, the extra space could be used to show more information usefully. Articles seems to be the least annoying, but even so, the iPad is a real device that can sit on a real wood surface. No need to draw fake desks for me. Calculator, don’t get me started…

Weather Station Pro (via Well-Placed Pixels)

Articles for iPad (via Well-Placed Pixels)

Twittelator Pad (via Engadget)

Calculator (via Engadget)

I love these statistics from Vimeo where the labels for the sparkline graphs are attached to the bottom in matching colors.