I took a trip to the Tyson’s Corner Apple Store today. It was PACKED full of Christmas shoppers buying iPods, Macs, and accessories. But I was there to check out the new PowerBooks. Why? Aren’t I content with my 17″ 1.33ghz PowerBook G4? Yes I am. Its the best computer I’ve ever had and is …

You might have noticed that this blog is hosted on happyapps.com. So what is that? What is Happy Apps? I’ve been thinking about writing a manifesto, but maybe this impromptu chat session with my buddy Shep will explain it better: 1:13:57 AM louielouie: so you think i should have a big manifesto or just a …

I upgraded to 10.4.3 today and noticed that the Safari that is bundled with it is now Acid 2 compliant. What does that mean in plain english? It means that Safari is fully web standards compliant, putting it ahead of Firefox and way ahead of IE6 and even IE7. I had been running a WebKit …

The video of Evening at the Adler is now online. It features 10 Mac developers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. Most of them are Mac Indies, meaning independent software developers. You’re probably using some of their apps. Its quite a big download, but well worth it if you are interested in getting a …

I like MarsEdit. It has a nice metaphor: blogging should be like writing an email (and just as easy.) The design is fairly minimal and it is useful for bloggers on the Mac. I reviewed MarsEdit last year. So it’s good to see that MarsEdit will finally get a new programmer, thanks to Gus Mueller …

Welcome to my new blog, titled MacHappy! What’s MacHappy you say? Well… its the state of mind when you’re sort of obsessed with Macs, but… in a positive way. I’ll be blogging about design, focusing in on Mac application design, but also considering other sorts of design. I’ll also be blogging about business, especially the …