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Re:Skype for Mac 5.0 beta released on Thursday November 04, 2010 @11:54AM (#1869396)
Oh, I found "make text smaller" under view. But this is context sensitive and not global. So now I have different conversations with different sized font. Who is designing this product?
Re:Skype for Mac 5.0 beta released on Thursday November 04, 2010 @11:50AM (#1869374)
Yikes. What I liked about the previous version of skype was the relatively streamlined real estate. This version looks like a suburban mini mansion. On my macbook the new layout takes up half of the screen. Normally this would not be a problem if you can actually change the settings, font size, styling, or something. Haven't found out how to do that yet.

Rule of thumb for designers: Whitespace is your friend. But using it doesn't guarantee that your interface will be better.

I'm really not sure how this is relevant to a company that has over 15,000 employees (non retail). If you've done any work for apple or their HR department you would most certainly know it's not run like a startup.
Re:HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @12:53PM (#852975)
please, please, please, let me get what I want, lord knows, it would be the first time: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Qm9KrtqdBi8o5MNXJpuO1w==...
Re:Ask YC: Hiring contractors to convert PSDs to HTML/CSS on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:52PM (#393864)
I've used psd2html and was very pleased with the work, I have high standards. I would use them again.
Re:Ask HN: what tunes are you working to at the moment? on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @08:26PM (#383847)
christmas songs - motown christmas
Re:Ask YC: What do you use for time and todo tracking? on Sunday June 22, 2008 @08:26PM (#224530)
We're using unfuddle. It's pretty much like basecamp and trac combined. A good product, and the company listens to your suggestions.
I'll give it a try. I currently use browsercam (http://www.browsercam.com) and vnc into different platforms to test sites.