The Case For A 7″ iPod: The more I think about it, the more I think these rumors are right, but we’ve all been interpreting them the wrong way. The new 7″ iOS device supposedly coming this fall is not an iPad Mini. It’s a giant iPod touch. (Via MacStories) An …
Read more →The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar: #19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating. (Via Hacker News) I’ve read too many books that cheat.
Read more →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 A Better Finder Rename My Living Desktop 5 TheMacBundles …
Read more →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 PSD download that mimics the tooltips in iPhoto …
Read more →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 NeXT legacy, which means Xcode now …
Read more →It took me several hours and missteps to convert my son’s Windows 7 box to Ubuntu, all because of the wireless adapter. It’s a Cisco branded Linksys AE2500. Here’s what I learned: Use the 32-bit version of Ubuntu (actually, I didn’t try 64-bit after switching …
Read more →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 pledges of $256,145 (the project’s lead, Chris Granger, …
Read more →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 the App Store gold rush for iOS developers, the Mac App Store …
Read more →With advance hype rivaling Diablo III’s, Panic has released the second version of their web development tool, Coda. It’s now on sale, as of this morning, for $49 – a 50% savings that’s good only through tomorrow. If you’re going to buy it, now’s the time. As …
Read more →Back in the year 2000, Steve Ballmer danced, as they say, like a Monkey Boy, chanting, “Developers! Developers! Developers!” in an infinite loop. Sweating like an offensive tackle in August two-a-days, he hopped and pranced and bellowed his devotion to …
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