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Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag +. 29.3k Followers, 399 Following, 328 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Issimo (@issimo). In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the 'Classic' Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded 'Mac OS' in 1996, was preinstalled on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered on Macintosh clones for a short time in the 1990s.
—A new online platform that celebrates Italian style.
There are certain Italian words that are simply untranslatable and uniquely describe the culture. One of those is sprezzatura—a nonchalance that makes whatever one does or say appear effortless. Add to the list -issimo, the emblematic suffix so loved by Italians and often used, in any context, to elevate any adjective to the absolute superlative. For Marie-Louise Sciò, creative director of the Pellicano Hotels Group, -issimo was the locus for her latest venture, ISSIMO, a lifestyle and e-commerce platform dedicated to the best of Italian design, travel, food, and style.
On paper, Sciò studied architecture and design at the Rhode Island School of Design; in life, Sciò grew up living la dolce vita at Il Pellicano in Tuscany, her father’s jewel of a hotel in the hidden bay of Argentario in the waters of Porto Ercole. (Today, the Pellicano Hotels Group has a portfolio of three properties, having added La Posta Vecchia in Palo Laziale, a few kilometres from Rome, and Il Mezzatorre in Ischia.)
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In creating ISSIMO, Sciò approached the project as a “cabinet of Italian excellences,” reflecting the soul of the group of hotels she personally cares for. “ISSIMO features the people, style, culture, recipes, traditions that make Italy, and shares our exclusive collaborations and travel tips,” says Sciò. “A place for everything Italian.”
ISSIMO is divided into categories: Bellissimo, homewares and furnishings, along with design pieces; Buonissimo, culinary tales, along with recipes; Chichissimo, apparel and accessories; Coltissimo, collaborations, along with interviews with personalities from the world of culture; and Fichissimo, an extension of the Pellicano Hotels, where you can purchase the most sought-after hotel items but also locally made products, including hand-painted bathroom tiles, bougainvillea-print textiles, and even Ombrellone Visconti sun umbrellas. Sciò is highlighting the independent heritage brands and craftspeople of her home country, including Borsalino, Carolina Bucci, and Lisa Corti textiles.
While summer in Italy may be cancelled for many, it is possible for you to get your fix of il Bel Paese with ISSIMO.
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Belle-issimo
It’s been a regular one on our list of Cons that Symbian is lagging behind Android and iOS in user experience, but that’s about to change. The key elements in Belle are the new homescreen and menu, the updated native apps and overall polish of the interface.
Symbian Belle has a shiny new look
Here’s an extensive video demo of the interface (starring the Nokia 701), so you can get a good feel of Belle before we start.
The widget system introduced by Symbian^3 was incomplete to say the least. Now however, you get up to six homescreens (up from three) and you can delete unneeded ones. Each homescreen has its own individual wallpaper, rather than one for all to share. A notable contrast with Android, the scrolling of homescreen panes is looped so you never need to go back from the last one. Auto-rotation of the homescreen is enabled too.
Symbian Belle homescreen in portrait and landscape modes
Widgets themselves have dropped the one-size-fits-all philosophy and now come in up to five sizes. In addition to widgets, you can also put shortcuts on the homescreen – the end of the silly shortcut widgets.
A tap and hold on a widget or shortcut activates edit mode, but only for that widget/shortcut. You can’t touch the others – there’s no mode where you can edit everything at once (which seems a bit inconvenient to us). You can move, delete or (where available) access the settings of the selected one.
Moving widgets around • Adding a widget to the homescreen
Besides widgets and app shortcuts, you can also add contact shortcuts to the homescreen. To do that you need to go into the Options menu of the contact’s details, but the extra taps are worth it. You end up with one-touch access to the contacts you call most often.
The bottom of the homescreen has three virtual buttons – menu, dialer and homescreen settings. With these buttons, Nokia can go button-free at the front if they want to, just like they did with MeeGo.
The other big addition to the homescreen is the pull-down status bar at the top of the screen – think Android’s notification area or the similar menu available in iOS 5. This area is where notifications and status info await in line for your attention, but you also get toggles for mobile data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Silent mode.
Pull-down menu is always accessible, helpful
This pull-down status bar is available on any screen so you can also quickly change a setting and look up new events.
Moving on, the main menu has changed as well – it’s now completely flat, no level upon level of subfolders nonsense any more. Or at least not by default – you could still manually create folders, if you like. You can’t put folders in folders though (not that you’d want to do that anyway).
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The new main menu
You sort icons alphabetically or manually, by choosing the Arrange option and moving menu items around. You can’t drop a shortcut in a folder while arranging them though. To do that, you have to press and hold on a shortcut, choose Move to folder and then select the desired folder. There are also Add to homescreen and delete options here.
Arranging the menu • Creating a new folder
This arrangement isn’t as convenient as in other OSes and it contrasts with how the homescreen works. On the homescreen you press and hold to move an item, while a tap and hold on a menu item pulls out a menu. To move items around you have to hit the Options key and choose Arrange.
It’s a bit odd how folders on the homescreen work – you can only add a folder to the homescreen by first creating it in the menu. After you've added it to the homescreen, it remains visible in the menu.
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Because the main menu is busier than usual - and will only get more crowded as you install extra apps - the search option is a handy addition.
The task manager in Symbian Belle is virtually unchanged – press and hold the Menu key and it pops up. It fits a bunch of side-scrollable thumbnails, one for each of the currently open apps. It’s worth noting that hitting the End key will terminate an app, while pressing the Menu key just goes to the homescreen with the app active in the background.
The task manager is unchanged