I read an article this morning highlighting some very peculiar questions regarding how developers interact with customers via the iPhone/iPod Touch App store. I read all of them and the answers seemed so clear that I don’t know why Apple hasn’t answered them officially. Perhaps they will in the next two weeks, or there are [...]
I find it sad that in the time past since the keynote very few bloggers or news have really understood what 10.6 promises. From what I know inside of Apple, they’re not kidding about improving OS X. Let’s take a quick inventory of the IT industry and what is about to happen in the next [...]
I have a whole batch of criteria for what makes it in my dock and gets tossed. I know we all have something that makes us promote an application to its often-clicked life in the Dock. I thought I would share some of mine and also see what readers do with their Dock icon set. [...]
I am so insanely inundated with work that I was happy to see we had a review for a different approach to task lists and reminders. LifeShaker’s approach is to avoid the list-based approach, in favor of grids and boxes. There are color coded categories, which are assigned to goals. The largest area of [...]
I learned that the background on the Dock in Leopard is a set of 4 PNG image files, and I got the hamsters running. I made Sky and Wood for you, and here’s what they look like:
Installation
To ‘install’ them, go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock and click on the gear icon in the Finder window.
Select “Show [...]
Step 1. Announce a device running a version of said operating system with proper modifications for the device’s interface and applications.
Apple Announces iPhone, Stock Soars. Jan 9 2007
There have been very few times in Apple’s history where investors bought on the news. When Jobs started to introduce the phone, before calling it a phone, the [...]
I saw a post on the homepage of MSN today for the top design disasters of the tech world. Guess what made the list? Our friend the brown Zune. Good to see Microsoft has some humor in itself, even if it is a stretch from one of their affiliate companies.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a room at 1 Infinite loop few know about. The entrance is guarded by laser beams and ninja trained monkeys. The employees that work in the room are completely self contained and sequestered from the the outside world. They are payed handsomely for this, driven by the [...]
I was excited to learn that Ringtones were now a part of iTunes. I thought it would be great if I could mash up some stuff in GarageBand, or shoot, even my current iTunes tracks, and easily get them on my iPhone. I hurriedly downloaded my new copy of iTunes to get this ability [...]
Remember when computers didn’t have internet access? When it was fun to say “five and a quarter” or brag about having a hard drive. One of the things I remember most was staying up into the night, fascinated with the thick manuals that came with the machine. It is like a geek version of Sherlock [...]
Single Click Downloading
I was cruising around looking to spruce up my desktop and got to a page that offered many wallpapers and different screen dimensions. All of these dimensions are of course linked to a file that has to be saved somewhere. A simple click on the link causes Safari to open a new window [...]
A year ago I wrote that Apple should wait on iLife ‘07. Here we are, and I have to wonder did it work? I mean, Steve Jobs did comment on considering the wait!*
I thought I would take a minute to reevaluate this post, and reflect on the developments since then. It seems we are halfway [...]
When I was eight my friends and I planned to build a tank. None of us told our mothers why or how we would do this tank project, but once we had it there was no doubt we would be the kings of the neighborhood. We got a bunch of old tires together, broke scissors [...]
Thurrott is back in action with the continuing contribution of fence riding quotes this week. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve read his articles since I was a young little geek and enjoyed them. It’s just great to see someone who’s career has focused on Microsoft’s products continually speak highly of its competitors.
Here AppleMatters explains how [...]
MacNN is reporting that Apple has filed a patent to use the iPhone as a remote control for AppleTV. I’ve used Salling for years and loved it, so is this Apple’s answer to the same thing. Good thing for Salling though, I don’t expect them to go the way Konfabulator did. Salling works on hundreds [...]
The computer hardware industry seems ready for a paradigm shift. Intel’s PRAM sampling is next month, and the effects of this are that we will enjoy even lower prices on current flash memory and a compelling speed improvement ready to replace it. No doubt this stuff will benefit the pretty much everything Apple makes.
There is [...]
I’m a geek and a Mac fan. I admit it. I’ve read Job’s letter four times already. I’ve read countless rebuttles, analyst opinions, and blog posts about Job’s Thoughts on Music. Yesterday the solution to the problem of DRM hit me. Stop buying DRM’d music. We can demand this because its our dollars we give [...]
Am I the only blogger looking back on the last two months and thinking…
What the hell are Apple and Microsoft doing to each other?
I don’t care about who started it first, that can go all the way back to 1983 and there is still no answer. It has to stop, and Steve and Bill made [...]
When I started Tackle Technology, Daylite was the first killer application I bought for the company. Organization is productivity, and Marketcircle did a fantastic job with Daylite 3 in helping me keep people productive when the situation could have been chaotic.
Shortly after that purchase, I received an email from Marketcircle sales letting me know about [...]
I was so excited to see that after five years, 50 million lines of code, and 5 billion spent that I could finally wipe out that OS X install for a Windows Vista Ultimate Edition with Office Ultimate Edition 2007. I’ve been saving all this time to spend the $1080 in Microsoft goodness that will [...]
