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Nick Heer

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A sassy weblog written by Nick Heer with topics including technology and policy, Apple, Silicon Valley, and privacy.

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The window chrome of our discontent

In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]