Tag Archives: design

Allowing Your Schedule to Drift

Posted on 9 August, 2010 by Graham Miln

Mac OS X’s ability to schedule hardware power on and wake up is great. However, it does have some limitations. One limitation in particular affected Power Manager’s availability field. Continue reading →

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Making your Mac Available – Powering On and Waking Up

Posted on 5 August, 2010 by Graham Miln

The design problem is surprisingly subtle and hides more than a few edge cases. When you include conditions and sequences of actions, things only get more complex.

Power Manager 4′s solution to re-examine the role of power on and wake up was a significant break from past designs. The change opened up conditions and the creation of far more complex and capable events. Continue reading →

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Mac’s Lazy Design – iMUG Talk

Posted on 7 May, 2008 by Graham Miln

I will be arguing the benefits of laziness at Victoria’s Mac User Group (iMUG) in a couple of weeks. I will discuss how laziness has affected the design of Mac OS X, and how laziness influences the design decisions behind … Continue reading →

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