Topic: Apple
August 12, 2009, 12:12 pm
Apple will charge just US$29 for the next major release of Mac OS X. Most previous versions have cost US$129. How can they afford to charge so little? Because Snow Leopard will pay for itself by retiring software debt.
July 19, 2009, 7:19 pm
With apologies to David Letterman’s Stupid Human Tricks segment, I presented a session at Barcamp Auckland (BCA3) on some WebKit-specific features you can leverage in web applications for iPhone, Android, and the Palm Pre. This is my synopsis, plus a bonus trick I didn’t present at the (un)conference!
May 29, 2009, 6:18 pm
Recently, Rebecca Murphey asked on Twitter why she was seeing choppy animation of CSS transitions in her iPhone web application. Initially, I had the same experience, but through some experimentation came to find the smoothness I craved.
March 19, 2009, 11:59 pm
I gave a presentation tonight to the Auckland Web Design Meetup on Dashboard widgets. Here are my slides and a little commentary for those who were unable to attend.
March 14, 2009, 3:14 pm
Recently, on Dashboard-Dev, Aaron Vizzini asked how to integrate Growl notifications into Dashboard widgets. I just did this in Hurler and tr.im.it, so I am happy to document the process here.
August 22, 2008, 8:22 am
This might be pretty obvious, but it’s really simple to use Coda’s Terminal tab to interact with your local system from the command line. Here’s how…
April 8, 2008, 11:00 am
I thought I had it all sorted. I thought I had put together a foolproof way to track exactly how many times my PHP Function Reference widget had been downloaded and from where. I was wrong.
April 7, 2008, 4:07 pm
It’s done, finished, out the door, in the can. Version one-point-oh of my PHP Function Reference (aka, PHPfr) widget is officially available for download. And, oh my dog, it’s about time.
March 30, 2008, 12:34 pm
There’ve been a couple of false starts over the 2 years that I’ve been developing this Dashboard widget, so excuse me if I didn’t want to say anything until I knew a release was close, but PHP Function Reference 1.0 is nearly done. w00+!
January 8, 2008, 8:01 am
How’s this for a New Year’s Resolution? I resolve to simplify my life by not pretending I have time to maintain 10+ Dashboard Widgets. Anyone want to take them over?
January 16, 2007, 4:16 pm
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t see a good solution on the Mac for merging folders full of files. Well, today I really needed to do just that, so I figured out a way using only Panic’s excellent ftp program Transmit.
May 6, 2003, 9:08 am
Apple Computer launched an online music store last week to much hype and much rejoicing among the Mac faithful. In the first week since its launch, the store has moved 1,000,000 tracks out across the Internet at US$0.99 a pop. This is all glorious and righteous … right?
