Those of you who thought Apple would sell straight AAC files without any form of personalization may have to think again. Erica Sadun at O’Reilly is suggests that the DRM-free AAC files Apple is selling through iTunes Plus may use a form of steganography.
No, that’s not a dinosaur (don’t worry, I thought so too). Steganography [...]
For those of you who weren’t in attendance at RubyConf (don’t worry, I wasn’t either), you missed out on a fun little role reversal.
The Ruby on Rails world is Apple-dominated. Seriously Apple-dominated. I’d wager to guess that 90% of the Rails coders out there are using TextMate on a MBP. Noting this, one intrepid fellow [...]
The nail may just be in the coffin. Those of you who were paying attention last week may have seen the many screenshots of Office 2008 for Mac floating around. While it’s tough to gauge an application package as big as Microsoft Office on just a few screenshots, what we are seeing looks very promising.
Perhaps [...]
While none of us have actually gotten our hands on the iPhone, if it lives up to the video demonstrations that Apple has released, it’s incredible. The haptic interface that many folks were expecting to see as part of the “video iPod” (which may or may not come to market), is nothing short of phenomenal. [...]
Product: Belkin TuneFM for iPod nano
Price: $49.99 USD
I was quite optimistic when I opened the Belkin TuneFM for the iPod nano. Boasting the “best-in-class audio performance,” I expected nothing but.
The TuneFM nano is a sleek little tuner. It connects directly to the nano’s dock connector and headphone jack, fitting snuggly at the bottom of the [...]
Jeff Croft recently published a short post advocating the rebirth of Flash ala the Javascript renaissance. You can read the comments to his original post if you want to hear a few good reasons why that probably won’t happen — at least not in such a cut and dried form.
Regardless of how you feel about [...]
It’s no wonder that Headdress comes complete with a feature set that will appear to most avid graphic designers out there, at least those who dabble in the web. After all, it was designed by Twinsparc, your prototypical two-man design firm.
At first glance, Headdress may not seem like an exciting application. Those who have [...]
Earlier today Reuters reported that Universal Music, the largest music company in the world, may soon ask Apple for royalties on each iPod sold. One can hardly blame Universal for wanting to push this envelope, given that Microsoft opened the can of worms by offering to pay Universal a royalty on each Zune sold (which, [...]
This may not be the freshest tip for the Quicksilver-inclined, but I find it infinitely more useful than constellation menus and I think it’s something every Quicksilver user should know about.
Using a handy Quicksilver plugin, you can access every menu item in the currently active application. It may not sound useful just yet, but let [...]
John Gruber is a genius. The OSX-savvy writer and producer of the well-known Daring Fireball pointed out today that autocompletion is available in all OSX Cocoa-based applications. Straight from the horses mouth:
The Cocoa text system has a built-in auto-complete feature that is tied to the system-wide spelling checker dictionary. Start typing a word in an [...]
After reading a recent Newsweek piece (ironically, posted on MSNBC), I couldn’t help but grin thinking about what Jobs had to say. When asked about whether or not Apple was worried about Zune, Microsoft’s new iPod killer, Jobs had a few choice words:
In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how [...]
Macrumors is reporting that Target (TGT) has joined the illustrious Wal-Mart in warning major motion picture studios that selling movies on iTunes may just hurt DVD sales.
I never subscribed to .Mac, not even the free version, so when I read all of the recent editorials floating around, I really don’t have much to compare to. From a distance, .Mac looks pretty slick, but despite it’s appeal as an Apple product, ripping on .Mac seems to be the new hot thing. So, [...]
Interarchy 8.2 is a remarkably feature-packed update to an already wonderful piece of software. I haven’t used Interarchy since version 8.0.1, and in the interim the folks at Stairways Software have clearly been hard at work.
If you were paying attention to the media event today the iTunes announcement is already old news. I apologize, but I’m not as quick as I used to be, so I’ve only just downloaded the update.
Hi, I’m iTunes 7. I look familiar, but I’m only kinda related to the iTunes you’re used to. I’m greyer. [...]
I don’t consider myself a design guru, but I do like to dabble in CSS, PHP, and Javascript — at least enough to make my blog look nice. I’m a relative purist when it comes to web design, so I rarely step outside of the text editor/web browser development duo. Occasionally, however, I need some [...]
If you grew up working on a Unix machine like I did, working in Terminal.app isn’t just a walk down memory lane, it’s more productive. While of my everyday computing happens within Terminal, be it server maintenance, MySQL, or file manipulation, using Alt-Tab or Expose to constantly switch back to the Terminal becomes cumbersome when [...]
