The release of a reasonably refined #iOS7 this autumn may bring back my interest in #Apple mobile solutions; for now, I’m happily rid of it.
The new #iOS interface is not bad at all. Only if your icons are no longer photorealistic, it is better not to show them against photographic backgrounds.
The look of #iOS called for a careful evolution. Jony got carried away, destroying the beloved visual language that others eagerly copied.
The angular, monochrome poster revolution of a century ago is repeating itself in the new design of operating systems.
The Kazakh cleaning lady reminded me a lot of the Chinese assassin from Johnny English 2
The WWDC conference (starts tomorrow) should finally show me whether it is worth joining the Apple ecosystem in the future.
Returning to Twitter, I’d like to report that for the next six months I’ll be, on official duty, in the town of Ozinki, near the Kazakh border.
Be busy. It is the cheapest medicine on earth — and one of the most effective.
— Dale Carnegie
When we are right, we often doubt, but we are usually wrong with complete confidence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Linguist Alexei Shmelev explains how Russian words, unnoticed by ourselves, shape our view of the world around us. http://esquire.ru/words
@jetbrains Got some fun while starting PhpStorm on my desktop with Harry Potter film screenshot as background image :)
If you can find a path without any obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
I love Dropbox because It works like a Dropbox http://db.tt/dYKSMd34
@essnooker Better Sinitsyn on air than Carter in the sky. (A play on the Russian proverb “A titmouse in the hand is better than a crane in the sky” — the surname Sinitsyn comes from “titmouse” — and on the two snooker figures: Sinitsyn is a well-known snooker commentator on Eurosport, while Carter is a well-known snooker player who is also a pilot.)
!raey weN yppaH <- May your weekend go the same way!
Programmers are very warm-hearted people. In the evenings they sit down in an armchair, pour themselves some tea and watch their project deadlines burn…
