Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Why is the music file preview image so ugly?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 • 9:42 amThose rough edges have no place in Mac OS X.
Archive for the 'Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame' Category
Pages 3.0: The problem with the lack of sub-pixel anti-aliasing is that we have to live (and work) with it today
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 • 4:31 pmApple is probably never going to fix this.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Adobe Illustrator CS2
Monday, February 13th, 2006 • 11:38 amWhy be consistent across all your applications when you don’t have any competition?
Font smoothing in Pages: It’s about text transparency
Thursday, February 9th, 2006 • 10:18 amOther writers discuss the lack of support for various font smoothing styles in Pages.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Word 2004
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 • 10:43 amBetter than Excel 2004, but there are still some problems.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Mac OS X’s menu bar
Thursday, October 27th, 2005 • 3:21 pmMenu extras can’t use colour pixels for anti-aliasing.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: More about BBEdit and Mac OS X
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 • 4:19 pmA retraction of sorts.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: FileMaker Pro
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 • 2:16 pmFully-owned Apple Subsidiary + Proprietary Interface Controls = Ugly White Smears.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Pages 1.0.x
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 • 10:53 amCocoa applications are not immune. They just have different problems.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: BBEdit 8
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 • 2:49 pmYup. Even Bare Bones Software.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: MacLinkPlus Deluxe 15
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 • 2:41 pmThe top performer in terms of smoothed text illegibility.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: iView Media Pro 2.6.x
Sunday, October 16th, 2005 • 4:47 pmWelcome back to the wonderful world of Geneva 9 pt.
Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Mac OS X’s Help Viewer
Sunday, October 16th, 2005 • 4:14 pmNext in the line of convicts awaiting execution: Apple.
The Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Excel 2004
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 • 6:31 pmA new blog category, and a nice screen shot courtesy of Microsoft to launch it.