The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthrop...

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Link: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20050909100757)

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[ebow]

That's hilarious--I love it! :D

[autrefois]

Very, very funny! :D I was bursting out laughing at several points, including the end. I needed a good laugh.

Mac people have a weird sense of humor, don't we? I thought my iSteve (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=147605&page=3&pp=40) was weird. This definitely beats me hands down.

iTunes was the only application I really liked the brushed metal in. I don't mind the new interface (better than Mail's), but still I'll miss B.M. in iTunes.

[rice_web]

Damn. That was awesome. :D

[tangerineyum]

B.M. has got to give some respect to Calculator, hes helped me out of some hard times... ;)

[osequis]

Excellent humor and writing!

[Aaon]

Haha that was fantastic!

"When is the Special Event scheduled for the next version of Calculator? Oh, that’s right, there is none, because no one gives a sh*t about Calculator."

[dubbz]

Heh, funny :)

[JeDiBoYTJ]

Brilliant! lol!

[ebow]

I hope someone makes a flash animation of this. Though it may not live up to the cartoon already in my head.

[looklost]

I hope someone makes a flash animation of this. Though it may not live up to the cartoon already in my head.

I was thinking the same thing, funny sh*t. :D

[tom_s]

I love it.
Soon Brushed Metal will have to appear in B-apps to pay his Lexus.

So what exactly are the people at Apple doing? We have Aqua, BM, iTunes, Mail!?

[narco]

Extremely funny. I too will wait for the flash animation.

Fishes,
narco.

[autrefois]

I hope someone makes a flash animation of this. Though it may not live up to the cartoon already in my head.

Great idea! I'd definitely watch that.

[Stridder44]

*golf clap*

[nagromme]

That was funny.

And it points out that Apple REALLY needs to get its UI guidelines into shape and apply them strictly in-house.

I LIKE having two themes--white for conventional document-centric "work space" apps, and metal for compact non-doc-centric apps. Apple has been moving towards that consistent pattern over time. Some apps are hard to define as one of the other--like Mail--but I do like having both.

And I like one of the themes being brushed metal. The new iTunes look is OK too, though.

But what's NOT OK is mixing up a zillion varieties of both.

ALL metal apps should look the same (maybe like iT5) in Leopard. And ALL white apps that have a toolbar should have it unified.

(I know Dashboard has its own theme of a sort--no glass scrollbars--but I understand why it's a separate environment and I don't object to that. It has a reason.)

[wtmcgee]

^^^ amen.

While funny, it brings up how far Apple has strayed from HIG conformity. Just like with the unified look, are we going to see apps now try to copy this look in future programs, splintering the Mac interface even more? I don't know what they're doing, and I don't care what they decide ... but they need to decide something.

[dubbz]

^^^

Heh, yes..

If Apple keep it up, soon enough, the Linux desktop will seem like the epitome of consistency in comparison.

And I'm only half-kidding.

[SPUY767]

Some panty-waisted moderator once suspended my account for a week because I used the work heroine. Can someone please tell me why Macrumors.com, a family site that can't bear the use of a term describing a refined plant product will allow links to stories such as this to be posted on their site. This is anadulterated, filthy, and devoid of humor. This type of article has absolutely NO PLACE on this website and I am apalled that the proprieters of this, what I once thought was a fine site, would allow it to be posted.

[Lacero]

Dude, I get banned all the time. Get used to it.

[ham_man]

That was damn funny. Daring Fireball is a great site...

[asif786]

oh man, that was great..had me grinning the whole way through :D

just dont drink tea/coffee while reading it ;)

[iGary]

It was so funny, I tried to post it twice!! :D :mad: :rolleyes: :eek: :D

[VanMac]

Pretty funny dialogue. Certainly a candidate for some animation.

[solvs]

Some panty-waisted moderator once suspended my account for a week because I used the work heroine.
Simple. Heroine isn't funny.

[mad jew]

God that thing was funny. It reminds me of a friend of mine... :o

[rickvanr]

God that thing was funny. It reminds me of a friend of mine... :o

.. the drunk by 10 AM part? haha

All in all, that's some pretty funny dialogue. Cheers to the author.

[mad jew]

.. the drunk by 10 AM part? haha


Yep... :D

[rickvanr]

Yep... :D

I think everyone has at least one friend like that.

[ph0rce]

Hehe rater amusing :D

[Daveway]

Looks like the server is down. :mad:

[ph0rce]

Looks like the server is down. :mad:

I can get too it :confused:

[mad jew]

I can get too it :confused:


Could be in your cache. :)

[ph0rce]

Could be in your cache. :)

May be a possibility.... ;)

***picks up ibook to see if it works on ther***

[mad jew]

***picks up ibook to see if it works on ther***


Did the same and it works, so maybe the server is back up. :)

[ph0rce]

Yep, works there too :D

yey :D servers fixed... everyone can enjoy the words of BM :D

[Diatribe]

Dude, I get banned all the time. Get used to it.

Awesome. That was funny... :D

[DeSnousa]

That was heaps funny, boy am i a nerd ;)

[ebow]

Simple. Heroine isn't funny.

Yeah, heroines are usually courageous women who should be respected. :rolleyes: Just because spell-checked doesn't mark it as wrong...

Anyway, I saved the script in a file so I can enjoy it regardless of the server's status. If I wasn't busy preparing to move, and if I knew Flash, AND if I had artistic talent, I'd give a Flash version a shot. Oh well.

[solvs]

Yeah, heroines are usually courageous women who should be respected. :rolleyes: Just because spell-checked doesn't mark it as wrong...
Perhaps I should have said "heroine". ;) Now heroin, that's funny. (sarcasm in case anyone misses that, thus getting me banned for a week)