January 2010
39 posts
“One of the complaints in Wilcox’s piece is how do you print from iWork? Who...”
– The Macalope Weekly: Welcome, all-knowing iPad! | Laptop | MacUser | Macworld
People forget that the reason Xerox never did anything with all their user interface research because they didn’t want a ‘paperless office’ to impact their sales of paper-based devices and technology....
3 tags
1 tag
“The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver,...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock, via Jeremy Keith (via nikf)
“I’m a techie, but I don’t need to be able to program on every...”
– iPhone Development: Failure to Think Different
Word, brother. WORD.
7 tags
BookBook - Twelve South →
ME WANT.
*cough*review copy plz kthxbye*cough*
4 tags
“In recent times, Senators merely notify the Majority Leader of an intent to...”
– Aaron Zelinsky: Save the Senate: Bring Back the Filibuster
WTF?
No, really: What. The. Fuck?
So the Republicans can be all political-minded and derail anything and everything the Democrats want to do, purely because it’s the Democrats doing it, by asking? They don’t actually have...
gwbenson - snow experimentation →
Some lovely experimentation with snowscape photography from my mate George.
6 tags
iPhone Development: Greatly Exaggerated →
Jeff brings many of Jon Casasanta’s points down to earth and discovers that, like Mark Twain’s hero, rumours of the death of Mac software have been greatly exaggerated.
Jeff’s main point—the same which leapt immediately to my own mind—is that the most interesting new developer technology is on the Macintosh, not the iPhone. Sure, the iPhone has a more modern user interface...
Twitter joke leads to Terror Act arrest, airport... →
And people wonder why I don’t want to move back to England. It’s just not the place I grew up in, a fact which causes me no end of pain, since I loved that place so much.
I hope that sanity will one day return to the UK, but until then I’m not going to subject my daughter to the ordeal of growing up in that place.
“Accountability is key. If there is no accountability, there is total freedom to...”
– Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the failure of counter-terrorism intelligence procedures
“When I was a little boy, I remember watching ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny...”
– Conan O’Brien (via thedailywhat) (via maniacalrage)
History is Bound to Repeat Itself
benjaminstein:
I get secret joy out of watching people speculate about upcoming Apple products. What amuses me is that people have a really hard time innovating themselves, and more importantly, a hard time believing that Apple can innovate.
Of the thousands of predictions about the Tablet/iSlate, they pretty much all boil down to two possibilities: a MacBook running OS X without a keyboard or...
1 tag
7 tags
More iPhone Background Thoughts
So response to my previous post has been fairly positive, despite not achieving the critical mass necessary to land on Daring Fireball— come on @gruber, pay attention ;o)
I’ve had a few conversations with people over the last week about some of the implementation details and suchlike, and I wanted to expound on the original idea a little. The first post went into some reasonable detail on...
“A second lawsuit, filed with the same court, claims Apple’s array of Macs...”
– Kodak strikes at Apple in iPhone, Mac patent dispute • The Register
Isn’t this, like, the whole fucking core of the UNIX method of application development? Pipes, input/output, etc? Buh-huh?
Anonymous asked: I really like your glass button blog post, and am trying to copy it. However, I need to put it over a fairly light background at times (almost white), and the default settings don't really look right. I've played around with the RGB colours that were (0.6, 0.6, 0.6) in the default, making them all sorts of other variations, but still not quite happy with it. So I think it will be a...
“A report from a friend on the search process flying to the US yesterday. —If it...”
– Steve Hayman on Twitter
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to say it until it happens:...”
– iPhone Development: CES Keynote
1 tag
CoreFoundation dual-mode code macros
Since I’m doing some work on AquaticPrime using SecIdentityRefs, SecKeyRefs, etc, and since I want it to be compatible with either Garbage Collection or manual memory management, I need to handle CoreFoundation objects properly in both cases. It’s not difficult to do, but it lends itself to some nice syntactic sugar, which I’ve chosen to implement as the following macros....
craigz asked: Sorry to bug you, but have you completely given up on Apple TV and as a second part to this Q, what do you think of Boxee's soon-to-be recent hardware debut? (That remote is too cool for school regardless.)
I’ve enabled the ask-a-question thingy that the nice folks at Tumblr have added recently. Aside from this post, there’s a nice link in the sidebar over on the right there.
So if you have any odd Mac/iPhone programming questions you’d like answered, hit me up.
1 tag
“Below are the three simple words of the TSA mission statement: “Tedium,...”
– Patrick Smith, via Bruce Schneier’s TSA Logo Contest (hat-tip to Scott Knaster)
5 tags
A Lovely Tablet Computing Idea
Note that I didn’t say ‘slate computing’ as more and more have done since “the impending Apple Slate” was mentioned (including Steve Ballmer oh-gosh-why-am-I-not-surprised). It’ll probably happen, similarly to the iPod name, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves in the rush to be the first to embrace the latest buzzword.
So, I was reading this article...
“The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have...”
– Squashed (via marco)
5 tags
iPhone 4.0 Hope: Background Tools via launchd
A lot of people want to run apps in the background on the iPhone, but I believe that Apple has some very legitimate concerns about the feasibility of doing so, at least on the current hardware platforms. However, I believe that there is a perfectly valid way of accommodating most developers’ background-execution needs. This system is called ‘launchd’, and I believe it would...
HTC and other OEMs prepared to challenge the... →
I think what they really mean is “HTC and other OEMs waiting eagerly to see what Apple’s going to do so they can produce cheap knock-offs of the same basic external design”, no?
If 'Star Wars' Was On Facebook
→
Lord Hoffmann Is Not Afraid of the Terrorists →
fraidycats:
We lose when we erode the rule of law.