With more and more web applications being built by Mac-addicted developers, I thought I’d have a chat with Stephen Caudill over at FatJam. Stephen not only codes his creations on Apple hardware but also relies on it to serve up the applications to the public.
Travis Vocino for The Apple Blog: Hey there Stephen! [...]
Today I’m talking to a longtime friend of mine and my favorite hipster tech girl, Sara Robertson. I asked Sara to share some of her day-to-day Mac experiences at Warner Bros. Records, the workflow for her personal projects and in the greater entertainment industry.
Travis Vocino for The Apple Blog: Hello there Sara. We’ve [...]
Following up on part 1 of my interview with the creative minds behind AppleGeeks.com, here’s what Ananth Panagariya had to say about his role in writing AppleGeeks.
TAB: I’m not sure which one of you came up with the idea, but where did the idea of AppleGeeks come from?
Ananth: Hawk’s older brother Mohammad had the domain [...]
Anyone who is into Mac shareware applications has heard of MacUpdate, for the uninitiated, it’s basically a giant catalog of every Mac app, getting updated by-the-minute with new software updates. I recently had a chance to virtually sit down with Joel Mueller, the founder and head honcho of MacUpdate, for some questions about his site.
I know you should never start a blog post with a cliche, but the first time I saw an AppleGeeks comic it was love at first sight. Any comic with clever satires, lovable characters, and amazing artwork is bound to turn some heads. But a comic with an Apple theme? Now that’s [...]
Continuing with my “Why Software Companies Support OS X” series, I had a chance to ask some questions to Brian Jacquet, a spokesperson for SlingMedia. As many of you know, SlingMedia recently introduced a new beta of the SlingPlayer which is more Mac-like in appearance.
I asked Mr. Jacquet why SlingMedia supports Mac OS X [...]
1. Where did the Big Robot name come from?
Pete: Big Robot is actually my middle name.
Ryan: Yeah, we thought the company would have that personal feel to it if we used something close to us for the name, so we went with Pete’s middle name. His mother is very proud.
2. Who makes [...]
Why do software companies support the Mac? Don’t get me wrong, I love that there are so many options available for OS X. However, OS X users are a small percentage of the overall market (according to Wikipedia, Mac users are a mere 6% of the market). How do you find out [...]
Andrew Sims is the host and producer of MuggleCast, the most popular Harry Potter podcast in the world.
I had the great opportunity recently to ask him a few questions.
Tell us a bit about MuggleCast, and its history.
MuggleCast started back in August 2005 when its parent website, MuggleNet.com, decided to look into the possibility of running [...]
Recently a gallery of images of a basement that is part lounge and part museum surfaced on Flickr. I recently had a chance to talk to the man behind this undertaking and ask him a few questions.
Could you please tell us a little about yourself?
My name is [...]
Day One of Macworld was cool for the Keynote, but I didn’t see anything cool on the show floor, and I didn’t attend any conferences.
Day Two, however, was much cooler.
The only presentation I saw was a bit of the Macworld Best in Show (some representative from Adobe talking up the CS3 beta), but I got [...]
I had a chance to sit down with two developers from plasq and talk Mac, interface design, and development. Enjoy this interview with Cris Pearson and Keith Lang.
TAB: Thanks for taking the time for this interview. Where are you guys based and what are your roles at plasq?
Cris: We are both in Melbourne, Australia. [...]
If you read the popular DrunkenBlog, you’ve probably seen a number of the awesome interviews there, and the coverage of the Mac, Open Source, Linux, etc. More than a year ago, the author known as “DrunkenBatman” interviewed Evan Schoenberg about the up-and-coming IM client for the Mac, known as Adium (or sometimes AdiumX). A [...]
It’s been forever since I posted here, so I thought I would bring you nice folks a little something special. Today I bring you an interview with the creator of Jisho. Read on to the full article to learn about Jisho, and the diet coke swilling student behind this great app.
i’m painstakingly dialed-up via my bluetooth cellphone over my earthlink dialup account, so i’m looking at bandwidth below 14.4. so be patient Rich and I are sitting next to eachother. He’s got spare batteries. He’s cool like that. Ok here we go:
10:02AM - music playing. w00t!
10:05: Steve Welcomes us: 500 apple engineers on site. [...]
At least two of us from The Apple Blog will be attending the conference and the Keynote by Steve Jobs at 2pm Pacific Time Monday. It is unclear at this time whether there’ll be any reliable WiFi access during the keynote itself. Even if there is, everybody will be on it trying to do exactly what we’ll be doing. We’ve got quite a few contingency plans in place so we’re reasonably optimistic.
Recently I was lucky enough to grab the attention of the venerable Quicksilver developer, Alcor, and ask him some questions about the OS X-altering program he conceived. If you haven’t heard of Quicksilver, or don’t know what it does, or haven’t tried it yet, stop right now! Read this, this.
Ok, welcome back. So I got to ask some questions about Quicksilver, it’s background, Alcor’s intentions with the application, and so on. But instead of me babbling about the background of the interview, just read what he had to say:
The Apple Blog:
I LOVE QS. I’m honestly giddy and like a little school girl when I gush about Quicksilver to others. It’s just so natural when you get used to it. I don’t know any other application that people would be this gung-ho about. How does it feel to be the creator of such a groundbreaking app with such a cult following? And What’s it like to be responsible for changing the way so many people use their computer?
Alcor:
It is nice to have people so passionate about it. The community that has grown up around it is probably the greatest reward. In the end, the users are the ones who do most of the innovating. We are just providing tools.
I talk to Adam about his latest book, the role of AppleScript in Mac OS X and how he came up with the example scripts used in the book.
I talked to Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer’s Notebook, about the book, QTJ technology and his other projects and interests.
TiVo CEO, annoyed by “Windows nightmares”, switches to Mac, his IT department follows
