I upgraded my machine to OS X Yosemite the other day, and while Apple is very excited about the new design, there are some things I do not like. For one, I find the default colors of the text bubbles in messages to be too bright, nor would green and blue be the colors I would choose. Unlike past versions of OS X, there is no longer any ability to choose a color I would like from the app’s preferences. Apple has their reasons for removing choice from the way users experience their operating system, but personally, I don’t care what those reasons are. I’m just not happy that they took away a feature I liked, and the offense is compounded by what I feel is a poor color choice.
I also feel that the new folder icons are a downgrade from previous versions. Once again, I find the colors to be too bright. But, there is a way to change the folder icons to something less stressful to a user’s retinas. A programmer by the name of Yuki Yamashina has posted a how-to on github. From start to finish, the process only takes a couple of minutes, and a user can change the icons into whatever they want. As for me, I desaturated my folder icons to more closely resemble the icons from previous versions of OS X, and I couldn’t be happier (see below). Thanks, Yuki!

Done.
[Mike wipes drool off his chin]
via The Verge

From Bloomberg:

Actor Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

“We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,” Sorkin told Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang on a coming edition of “Studio 1.0.” “He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting.”
Why would he have to audition? The dude is perfect for the role.
I can’t wait to see him bury the awful version Ashton Kutcher did.
[ok, I know Kutcher is a huge fan of Jobs and he didn’t do a half-bad job playing him, but the movie wasn’t very good]

BGR’s headline:
What if iOS 9 came with a major interface overhaul inspired by the Apple Watch?
Really interesting question.

BGR: Ingenious new app is every math teacher’s nightmare come true

Hendo Hoverboards on Kickstarter

Yeah, daddio! From World’s Finest #224.

via Gadget Love

via Minimal Mac

Across the Web today is news that Apple accidentally leaked specs and images on the new iPads being announced tomorrow.
From The Verge:

Regardless, if you were hoping for major design changes, the iTunes document all but confirms they’re not coming this year.
This is everything that is wrong with tech news today. If it’s not new, it sucks. It’s boring. Old news. They act like 5-year-olds getting bored with a new toy five minutes after opening it up.
What exactly is wrong with the current design of the iPad and iPad Mini that The Verge wants to see changed?

This week Michael and Bryan discuss crazy, roadside car race spectators, Ebola, iOS’s Crappy Handling of Animated GIFs, problems upgrading to iOS 8, the nature of sports fans, Michael’s complete disregard for sports, the end of Bryan’s news embargo and horror flick archetypes. This episode opens with the sound of the Blue Angels in F-18/A Hornets during Fleet Week in San Francisco.
Weekly Exhaust – Episode 19

That’s a picture of one of the godfathers of modernist architecture, Le Corbusier, vandalizing a French villa in the nude.
The heroes and idols you look up to are people. Fucked up human beings like the rest of us.
This fact doesn’t take away from the brilliant and creative things they may make and say, it’s just a reminder: they’re just people.
Lucky for him 4chan didn’t exist when he was alive.

—Barry Switzer