The Part of Xcode 4 That Tires Me Out
Brent Simmons: [T]he only thing worse than managing multiple windows is managing multiple panes. Yep. Update (2011-09-05): Gus Mueller: And I really miss having Interface Builder as a separate...
View ArticleComparing iPhone Text Editors, v6
Since version 5 of my comparison, I’ve added rows for tracking iPad and TextExpander touch support. Elements added support from LF line breaks and a nice interface for choosing the folder on Dropbox....
View Article1Password 3.9
1Password 3.9 is now available, and only from the Mac App Store. It’s the first non-Apple application I’ve installed that’s sandboxed: icarus$ codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/1Password.app...
View ArticleSandbox Corners
Daniel Jalkut: I think that Apple would have a lot more developer enthusiasm for this feature if it wasn’t so clear to many of us that our apps will be forced to lose features in order to adopt...
View ArticleMeet Amazon.com’s First Employee
GeekWire interviews Shel Kaphan: I remember, at one point, Jeff was all excited that we call it Relentless with the idea that we would relentlessly satisfy customer needs or something. It took a little...
View ArticleJohn Sculley Interview
John Sculley (via Hacker News): What they needed was someone who could keep the Apple II computer, which was a cash machine, commercially alive for three more years because Steve Jobs was still a year...
View ArticleReliable Crash Reporting
Landon Fuller: Implementing a reliable and safe crash reporter on iOS presents a unique challenge: an application may not fork() additional processes, and all handling of the crash must occur in the...
View ArticleMetro
John Gruber: Metro is to Microsoft what iOS is to Apple — starting over from scratch, carrying no legacy baggage or expectations. Windows 8’s “Desktop”, the traditional Windows interface, is like Mac...
View ArticleGrappler
Grappler, from The Little App Factory, is a little app for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites. I’ve tried a variety of applications, scripts, and helper Web sites over the years, as well...
View ArticleGoogle, JavaScript, and Dart
Lambda: A leaked Google memo, The Future of JavaScript, from November 2010 is being circulated around the Internet, outlining Google’s supposed technical strategy for Web programming languages. Google...
View ArticleNetflix and Qwikster
Reed Hastings: Another advantage of separate websites is simplicity for our members. Each website will be focused on just one thing (DVDs or streaming) and will be even easier to use. A negative of the...
View ArticleApple IDs
Glenn Fleishman: By having an Apple ID serve every function related to Apple — operating system, purchasing, and cloud-stored data — our friends in Cupertino may have bitten off too much. Simplicity is...
View ArticleHow to Stop Safari 5 From Unexpectedly Reloading Pages
Jason Sims: You should now see a Debug menu in Safari, to the right of the Help menu (not to be confused with the Develop menu). In this menu, disable “Use Multi-process Windows” by selecting it (when...
View ArticleBeware of Versions and Auto Save in 10.7
Gus Mueller: You open up the PSD in Preview, make a minor edit to it such as adding a little text to it or draw a couple of red lines. The intention is to select all, copy, and go to your email app to...
View ArticleOne App’s Poison
Peter Ammon: “You’re an idiot,” says House by way of hello. I think it over, but it doesn’t help. I say ”The main thread is not calling exit, it’s not returning, it’s not crashing, so where is it...
View ArticleCommon Miscapitalizations of Tech Names
A short list from Shawn Blanc. See also Apple’s Publications Style Guide.
View ArticleiCal Search Problem
I’ve recently discovered that iCal’s search is not showing me all of the matches. If I go to the right months I can see the events there, but they don’t appear in the search results list. This is a big...
View ArticleSharper
Jesper on upcoming C# features: First, there’s an API model for writing dynamic read-eval-print loops where lines of code can be interpreted in a script-like fashion and kept intact as you go; running...
View ArticleDisabling Third-Party Cookies Doesn’t (Meaningfully) Improve Privacy
Kevin Montrose: The other is Apple’s Safari browser, which denies setting third-party cookies unless a user has “interacted” with the framed content. The definition of “interacted” is a bit fuzzy, but...
View ArticleTextMate 2 Announcement
Michael Sheets: There will be a public alpha release this year, before Christmas, for registered users. TextMate is my preferred editor for reStructuredText.
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