Logging Out of Facebook Is Not Enough
Nik Cubrilovic: But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the Web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to...
View ArticleOverDrive Adds Kindle
Glenn Fleishman: The Kindle announcement is essentially a format extension, not a new deal between libraries and Amazon that would add hundreds of thousands of books to OverDrive’s collection. In most...
View ArticleKindle Touch and Kindle Fire
Very impressive announcements from Amazon today. I’m actually most interested in the new $79 Kindle. It’s the perfect size and weight for reading, and a good compromise of features. I have a Wi-Fi...
View ArticleDrift Rejected From the App Store
Devin Chalmers (via Manton Reece): Eventually it became clear that, from the reviewers' perspective, there was a problem with that, at all: it wasn't the (already redacted) signup links that we were...
View ArticleThe App Culture
Jason Snell: Not only does this approach risk turning the Mac App Store into a wasteland of arcade games and one-trick-pony apps, it risks dumbing down the Mac app ecosystem as a whole. While...
View ArticleApp Sandboxing Risks Eroding the Mac’s Identity
Andy Ihnatko: It took me a few weeks to realize something: the whole point of sandboxing is to isolate all of the processes running in your system, and prevent any one of them from interacting in any...
View ArticleGrowl 1.3
Growl 1.3 is now available, exclusively from the Mac App Store. I like the new history feature, and I’m happy to send the developers the $2. The Mac App Store necessitated the switch from a preference...
View ArticleATPM 17.10
The October issue of ATPM is out: Cover Sponsors Welcome E-Mail MacMuser: iDisk Lament PEBKAC: Readers, Readers Everywhere, and Not a Library to Spare Desktop Pictures: Easter Island Out at Five...
View ArticleBBEdit 10.1
BBEdit 10.1 is a terrific update, just a few months after BBEdit 10. The “Open File by Name” command has at last gotten a major improvement: it shows the list of matching files as you type. (There’s...
View ArticleStevey’s Google Platforms Rant
Steve Yegge: That one last thing that Google doesn’t do well is Platforms. We don’t understand platforms. We don’t ”get” platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully...
View ArticleSiri
John Gruber: The best sign I can think of regarding Siri’s practical utility: after a week of using this test iPhone 4S, yesterday, while using my regular iPhone 4, without thinking I held down the...
View ArticleiCloud and the Mac App Store
Clark Goble: My real worry is that programs like those will stop being made. My secondary worry is that more and more features of the OS will require being a signed application by Apple. i.e. only work...
View ArticleA Permanently Sweet Solution?
Business Week’s profile of Scott Forstall (via John Gruber): Before the introduction of the iPhone, Forstall supported Jobs’s view that Apple didn’t need to create an ecosystem of third-party...
View ArticleSecrets of iOS 5
Jeff Carlson: If you type with your thumbs while holding an iPad in both hands, or if you want take the new Show/Hide keyboard button out for a spin, check out the new Split Keyboard feature. To begin...
View ArticleDennis Ritchie, RIP
Tim Bray: It’s hard to believe that there was a time when any of these weren’t conventional wisdom, but there was such a time. Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than...
View ArticleiOS 5 Cleaning
Marco Arment: There’s no longer anywhere to store files that don’t need to be backed up (or can’t be, by the new policy) but shouldn’t be randomly deleted. This is problematic for lots of apps[…]
View ArticleTop 10 DTrace Tune Up Tips
Brendan Gregg and Joyent: Applications can become slow or unresponsive while waiting for CPU work, memory requests or disk I/O to complete. Standard performance analysis tools like Activity Monitor and...
View ArticleiPhone Image Adjustments… Live in Aperture
Joseph Linaschke reports that photo edits made on the iPhone are non-destructive. The photo imports into Aperture as the original image, with the edits translated to Aperture adjustments. This is...
View ArticleSiri Dictation Commands
Jim Rhoades (via Erik Barzeski) lists some spacing, punctuation, and capitalization voice commands that Siri recognizes. I’ve yet to figure out how to escape these, when I want the literal word. Maybe...
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