Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
Friday, June 6th, 2008
MacRumors writes:
A few rumored changes could be positioning Apple for a transition to sell OS X for generic PCs:
Changing .Mac to Me.com (platform neutral)
OS X Leopard (not Mac OS X Leopard)
10.6 to be Intel only (dropping PowerPC would be necessary)
"No new features" in 10.6 could be due to resources devoted ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Back a hundred years ago when I was studying Human-Computer-Interaction, there was much discussion about touchscreens. They mostly discussed the difference between a mouse, a touchscreen and a light pen. The latter two devices got short shrift from my lecturer as they had two issues.
your arm obscured the screen
your arm ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I don't believe I ever linked this before...
Wil Shipley spoke to some students in 2005 and told them, in no uncertain terms, why it was better to be an independent Mac developer than it was to be virtually anything else (an independent Windows developer or any iteration of Working For ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
In the next week, we're going to see what Apple has on offer from WWDC. Everyone is expecting some news about the new iPhone models because, with the exception of a minor memory storage upgrade, the iPhone will have been on sale for 1 year without any changes and Apple ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My copy of "iPhone Open Application Development" arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It's a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it's a nice little addition to the collection. ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials -
support for the camera
support for conversations
support for locations!
Looking forward to June!
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"):
"...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In an odd combination of non-day-job-work and play, I found this:
"I started working with the audio toolbox on the iPhone today. This morning, I added sounds to the little dice rolling application I've been writing. I recorded a total of fifteen sounds, five of a single die being rolled, five ...
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