Category: Mac

January 4, 2013

Application Idea: Virtualize Cloud Storage

I have a Dropbox Pro account with 107.5GB of storage, an iCloud account with 15GB of storage, and free accounts with Box (50GB), SpiderOak (2GB), GDrive (5GB), SkyDrive (7GB), ASUS WebStorage (8.5GB), Cubby (5GB),...

Mac / Software

November 20, 2012

GeekTool Won’t Let Me Drag an Icon to the Desktop

TL;DR — Turn off Path Finder desktop to use GeekTool. I’ve been meaning to install GeekTool on my new Mac that I bought, um, over two years ago. Time flies. Anyway, I installed it...

Linux / Mac

August 30, 2012

Fixing Wireless in Linux, and Why This Should Matter to Apple

In this post, I talked about my travails getting my son’s USB wireless adapter working in Linux. A few weeks later, it stopped working. Puzzling. I opened a terminal and ran: lsusb The computer...

Development / iOS / Mac / Software

August 17, 2012

More on Wang Ting — the copyright infringer swiping apps and selling them on the App Store

More on Wang Ting: It’s frustrating that Apple has no problem playing gatekeeper and keeping apps out of the store for the most trivial and arbitrary of reasons, but won’t play gatekeeper when presented...

iOS / Mac / Software

July 20, 2012

Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News

Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News: “Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with...

Mac / Software

June 9, 2012

Mac Bundle Season

I know of four Mac OS X software bundles on sale right now: MacUpdate ($49.99) Parallels Desktop 7 BusyCal ScreenFlow 3 Civilization V Jaksta Espionage 3 Speed Download 5 Attachment Tamer 3 KeyCue 6...

Mac

June 9, 2012

iPhoto iPad tooltips PSD

iPhoto iPad tooltips PSD: Since Apple’s designs tend to heavily influence third-party apps (just as their hardware tends to be copied wholesale by Samsung and HP) (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Gemmell offers a free...

Development / iOS / Mac / Software

June 5, 2012

XVim — Vim in Xcode

XVim: I work as a freelance Objective-C developer (amongst other things), so I find myself butting heads with Xcode on a regular basis. Recent releases have integrated several separate applications that betrayed Mac OS’s...

Development / Mac

May 26, 2012

If there’s any doubt that developers have moved to Mac OS X . . . .

A Kickstarter project that caused buzz amongst developers is Light Table, a development IDE that aims to fundamentally shift how we build software. As of right now, it has 5,726 backers (including me) and...

iOS / Mac

May 25, 2012

Three Things That Should Trouble Apple

Three Things That Should Trouble Apple: It’s a tag team wedgie patrol. (Via Daring Fireball) Great line. I would add a fourth: with their continued emphasis on iOS-ifying Mac OS X, the end of...