I recently got my hands on an interesting device, the Replug. The design of the Replug is meant to work much like a MagSafe connector does - give it a pull, and it pops out safely. But this is a headphone adapter. If you’ve ever had your computer yanked to the floor by a [...]
The long-discussed “Versions” for the Mac is now open for anyone to download, for free (for now). It’s pretty slick. It’s not as awesome as the hype built it up to be, but it’s definitely worth checking out.
Versions is an app that provides a strong GUI front-end for the “svn” (Subversion) command-line application. I, [...]
I’ve been hooked on Mario Kart Wii since it was released, but there’s been a disconnect for me. Like “Grand Theft Auto”, it doesn’t carry over the level of realism that I experience when I’m out driving a real car - whether it be to run errands, or to race in the Indy 500. [...]
I was a bit worried when I found out about this story, but I should have seen it coming. Engadget reports that people who are purchasing refurbished iPhones (from Apple, no less) are able to recover old data off of the devices using some freely available tools.
I’ve had to take my iPhone in to the [...]
Gizmodo is “confirming” that Apple will release a 3G iPhone next month at WWDC. This is a fairly widely circulated rumor - Gizmodo isn’t saying anything new, but is just betting all of their chips that it’s true.
Leo Laporte has mentioned a couple of times (on his TWiT podcasts) that he believes the iPhone 3G [...]
Wil Shipley, head of Delicious Monster, posted this Twitter message early this morning:
I have deployed the new store (also the basis of Golden % Braeburn) and it’s taking DL1 orders right now. Will watch it, then ship DL2.
Could this mean he was up late last night, getting the code smoothed over, ready for a [...]
This June will mark the one-year anniversary of the original release of the iPhone (though it was announced several months prior). Many Apple fans are chattering that this June’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco will be the time and place to announce a “3G” version of the iPhone, with a new sleek black-colored plastic [...]
I’ve used TextMate before, mostly for heavy development with PHP or Ruby on Rails, but it began to fall out of focus for me when I started using Panic’s Coda instead. I loved Coda’s interface more than any other text editor/web development application. But I lamented the ability to easily sync up my web [...]
The two newest kids on the block, Pixelmator and Acorn, have both been updated to version 1.2, each carrying increased stability and new features. Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog has a post covering some new features - including Curves, Rulers, and more - clearly planned to keep pushing at the market currently dominated by Adobe [...]
When you’re coding a huge project in Xcode, and you’ve written all of this awesome stuff, it’s almost done, and the big release is coming soon, that’s when the worst happens:
The hard drive that had all of your code on it dies suddenly
You didn’t have a backup in TimeMachine
Files become corrupted
You remove some important code, [...]
Closed captioning is a technology that’s been around for a few decades, but it’s changed very little since then. The techniques and processes behind the scenes are even still roughly the same as they were in the beginning. Some Canadians have been complaining that the quality of their captions are even worse than those in [...]
I recently got the red leather sleeve for the 13″ MacBook from Toffee. Toffee is an Australian company whom I hadn’t heard of until I saw this product. They make a whole array of sleeves like this one, even for the larger MacBook Pro.
Material/Build quality
There’s only so much you can say about leather - it’s [...]
I’ve never really liked the Apple mice that I’ve gotten with my machines, and I usually try to get something a bit nicer, like a Logitech or even - *cough* - a Microsoft mouse. These 3rd-party devices feature more buttons with more customization, and better ease-of-use than dealing with the annoying touch-sensitivity of Apple’s [...]
I haven’t agreed with a lot of what John Gruber has been posting lately, but I do agree with this point he makes. He points to Steven Frank’s post about not getting access to the Gold Master (final version) release of OS X Leopard before the general public. It’s pretty bad when developers are contemplating [...]
I was just watching “House, MD” a moment ago on television, and during the middle of one of the commercial breaks, one of Apple’s iPhone ads, “the Winger”, aired. In the bit, the girl recites her blog’s URL, thewinger.com. I can only assume that led to an uncountable amount of traffic slamming into her site [...]
There are some things you can do prior to installing that I sometimes recommend. Many of these things are not guaranteed to work (and some people actually say will do more harm than good). I, for one, don’t see an issue with the basics that some recommend: Start by repairing permissions: either run Disk Utility [...]
Yes, I realize I brought up this topic before, but I wanted to revisit it, now that the beloved iPhone has landed. My hope is that some people can answer a couple of questions I have:
1. M3/M4 Hearing-aid compatibility?
- This is a quick one: how well does iPhone play with hearing aids? In the past, GSM [...]
In school, when working on UI development and web applications, I focused greatly on users and how they would interact with the application to accomplish tasks as part of a larger workflow. One of the key things that we have to try to focus on when designing interfaces is to come to a mental model [...]
Well, I promised an update to the events of this coming week in the world of Apple, and indeed a number of things have happened recently…
Updated hardware
Apple updated the Macbook Pro earlier than expected, with some of the key features that were rumored, so we score it off the “updated hardware” list..
However, there are still some [...]
One week from today, Steve Jobs will be getting on stage to reveal some new developments in the world of the Mac, as well as showing developers how to take advantage of them. Here’s a quick roundup of what we’ve seen so far, and I’ll be revisiting/updating this on Saturday when I land in [...]
