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Making Microsoft Office on the Mac look more PC-like

by Sang Tang (Dec 28th, 2009)

Previously, I've mentioned that, despite their similar DNA and file interoperability, Microsoft Office for the PC and Mac are different in their own little subtle ways. This is part function: for example, Microsoft Excel on the Mac uses the 1904 date system, while its PC counterpart uses the 1900 ...

Sneak Peek: ColorSchemer Studio 2, pick your palette

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 24th, 2009)

As part of my trade, I work a lot with colors. ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory. It had its shortcomings, though, and some other tools had surpassed it, both on the desktop and on the iPhone. However, I got a ...

Palette lunchware app customizes Leopard dock

by Michael Rose (Nov 25th, 2007)

In honor of the holiday weekend, when many of us overate ourselves into food comas, I'm coining a word to describe a class of shareware apps: "lunchware," those programs inexpensive enough that you could buy them for what you might otherwise spend on lunch. If it's less than $12, it's lunchware, so ...

TUAW Tip: make friends with Mac OS X's Font and Color palettes

by David Chartier (Jul 17th, 2006)

One of the things I'm sure we all love about Mac OS X is how integrated so many of the apps and services are with each other, but did you know that integration can stem all the way down to the fonts and colors you use amongst your apps? In almost any input-based, Cocoa-written app you're running ...

Widget Watch: ColorBurn

by Dave Caolo (Jan 27th, 2006)

Here's a helpful widget for all you web design/creative professionals who are looking for a little inspiration. ColorBurn by firewheel design is a Dashboard widget that suggests one color palette per day, consisting of four colors and their corresponding hexadecimal values. You can change ...

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