by admin - Published: May 25th, 2010 -

CleanMyMac

CleanMyMac è un software per Mac che rappresenta una suite completa per la pulizia del Mac. L’applicazione, con qualche semplice click, permette di ripulire il proprio Mac dai file inutili che occupano spazio sull’hard disk, rallentandolo.

CleanMyMac analizza lo spazio del disco (cliccando su “Scansiona”) dividendo gli elementi trovati nelle categorie: Il Mio Mac (il totale di spazio occupato da file obsoleti), Cache, Log, File di Lingua, Binari Universali, Junk di Sistema, Rifiuti e Avanzi. Ognuna di queste categorie può essere selezionata (o deselezionata) per cancellare in modo mirato i file che occupano spazio.

L’interfaccia utente mostra anche la voce “Estensioni”, tra le quali troviamo i kb occupati dagli “Strumenti” (ovvero Widget), la voce “Applicazioni” tramite la quale possiamo trascinare i software per eliminarli completamente e l’opzione “Eliminazione Veloce” che consente di cancellare al volo i file senza passare dal Cestino.

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Nella pagina principale dedicata alla scansione, è possibile anche visualizzare un riassunto dello scan ed è possibile pubblicarlo direttamente su Twitter. La voce “Tweet il risultato” infatti reindirizza alla pagina di login del proprio account di Twitter.

CleanMyMac è una applicazione shareware per Mac, la licenza da sei mesi costa $14.95 (pari a €12), la licenza a tempo illimitato costa $29.95 (pari a €24) ed è compatibile con Snow Leopard. La versione di prova consente di liberare sul Mac solamente 200MB di spazio.

L’applicazione è localizzata in lingua italiana.

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CleanMyMac, eliminare i file obsoleti per rendere il Mac più performante é stato pubblicato su melablog alle 17:30 di martedì 25 maggio 2010.


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by admin - Published: May 22nd, 2010 -

Google ha annunciato ieri le nuovissime Google Font API. Un’API semplicissima per l’utilizzo di font “custom” all’interno delle nostre pagine web. Le API sono compatibili anche con IE6 e davvero facili da usare.
Quali sono i font disponibili? Tutti quelli presenti nella Google Font Library. ;)

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body { font-family: 'Tangerine', serif; }

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Autore: napolux
Tags: api, google, google font api, webfont

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by admin - Published: May 6th, 2010 -

Thanks so much for all the positive feedback on the Wireframing in Google Docs post. I’m sorry if I haven’t yet responded to your reply, you’re always welcome to ping me on @mortenjust.

One of the questions I got was if I had a set of iPhone stencils coming up. I do.

Like in the ones for the web, there is an empty one, and one with a template. This one is a typical iPhone drill-down pattern; groups > items > item.

In other words, to make your first iPhone wireframe, all you need to do is to add text.

I’ve added both templates to the shared folder. Have fun.

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I’ve been playing around with the newest addition to Google Docs, Google Drawings, and I’m quite liking it. I tried drawing a few diagrams and even a wireframe, and it turns out the basic drawing interactions are just as good – in some cases even better – than what I’m used to in Omnigraffle and Fireworks.

5 reasons Google Drawings beats Viso and Omnigraffle

We know the cloud computing arguments, and they certainly apply to wireframes

  1. It’s live. The entire team can work on the same document and see each other’s work instantly
  2. The wireframes live in the cloud, no sending files around, no outdated documents
  3. The risk of losing data is zero. It saves for every edit you make
  4. It’s free
  5. Most people already have a Google account, so no sign up required

We need stencils

One thing was missing though: Stencils. Omnigraffle has stencils coming out of its ears, and Fireworks has some excellent built-in ones. But Google Drawings in its current early and simple form simply doesn’t have it. So I made one.

Leaving the stencils in the gutter

An interesting limitation is the fact that

  • there’s no stencil library function and
  • you can’t easily copy and paste from one document to another.

One solution, it seems, is to clone one of the wireframe kits and thereby also cloning the stencils into each document. To not print or export the stencils, I’ve left them in the gutter area of the document. Seems to work quite okay.

Kind of blue

I’ve been wanting a blue kit since I left a project years ago where we used blue stencils (the idea was Peter’s). As you may have experienced, some customers simply don’t understand wireframes. The blue color gives that well-known blueprint feel, and shouldn’t prompt questions like “I like it, doesn’t it need a splash of colour?”

The templates

To make it even easier for you (ehm, me) I’ve begun making simple starting point templates.

Main blank template

Product detail page

Landing page

Item list view

They’re all in this shared folder on Google Docs, and it will be updated when there are new templates. If you make one, let me know and I’ll add it to the folder so everyone can use it.

UPDATE: I just added a few wireframe stencils for iPhone

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