Archive for 2011

State of the Meat 2011 Edition (4)December 30, 2011
The Failure of iMessages December 29, 2011
Cornerstone and Subversion 1.7 December 24, 2011
Static Code Analysis December 24, 2011
Thoughts on Writing Emails Using Markdown December 22, 2011
Help Finish QuicKeys 4 for Lion (6)December 22, 2011
The Software Developer’s Dilemma (6)December 16, 2011
Check App Store Updates With a URL December 13, 2011
TextMate 2.0 Alpha December 13, 2011
Binary Constant Macros in C (3)December 12, 2011
MFIndexSetForeach Macro December 12, 2011
iCloud: Lessons Learned December 12, 2011
Hex Fiend 2.1 December 12, 2011
NeoFinder 6.0 (2)December 12, 2011
ATPM 17.12 December 3, 2011
QuickTime History December 2, 2011
Kindle vs. Nook vs. Kobo Review December 2, 2011
Gitbox Is 1 Year Old December 2, 2011
Object File Inspection Tools December 2, 2011
“Spamming” the Mac App Store (1)November 29, 2011
You Guys Are Millionaires Right? November 28, 2011
Deleting Dave Winer’s FaceBook Account November 28, 2011
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare November 28, 2011
Steve Jobs NeXT Videos November 28, 2011
Manual Entry in the iPhone Reminders App November 22, 2011
Kindle Annotations Lost in Book Update (24)November 21, 2011
Siri and OmniFocus (1)November 18, 2011
Nearly Hygienic C Macros via __COUNTER__ November 18, 2011
Death and Resurrection of an SSD (4)November 18, 2011
Steve Jobs and iAds (1)November 18, 2011
Apple’s Aesthetic Dichotomy November 17, 2011
Apple Removes “Texas Hold’em” From App Store (4)November 17, 2011
Arithmetic Expressions in Shell Scripts (2)November 16, 2011
The Real Cost of Patent Trolls November 15, 2011
Luma Loop Discontinued Due to Bad Patents November 10, 2011
Flash Is Dead (1)November 9, 2011
kABUIDProperty (1)November 7, 2011
Apple Edicts November 7, 2011
Creating iCal Events November 7, 2011
Sichel on Sandboxing November 6, 2011
Macworld on Sandboxing (3)November 4, 2011
Alfred Powerpack and the Mac App Store November 4, 2011
Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates (2)November 4, 2011
ArsTechnica on Sandboxing (1)November 3, 2011
Why the Mac App Sandbox Makes Me Sad (1)November 3, 2011
The Long-Term Failure of Web APIs November 3, 2011
Google Kills Its Other Plus November 2, 2011
Apple’s Planned Obsolescence Schedule November 2, 2011
AnandTech’s iPhone 4S Review November 1, 2011
ATPM 17.11 November 1, 2011
iPhone 4S Camera Comparison October 25, 2011
John McCarthy, RIP (1)October 25, 2011
If Flickr Had an Ego October 25, 2011
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS Readers That Sync October 25, 2011
NSCompositingOperation at a Glance October 25, 2011
Dropbox API October 21, 2011
Clouds (4)October 19, 2011
Tower 1.2 October 19, 2011
iPhone Accelerometer Keylogging October 19, 2011
Python’s for/else October 19, 2011
Siri Dictation Commands (2)October 19, 2011
iPhone Image Adjustments… Live in Aperture October 17, 2011
Top 10 DTrace Tune Up Tips October 16, 2011
iOS 5 Cleaning October 13, 2011
Dennis Ritchie, RIP (2)October 13, 2011
Secrets of iOS 5 (1)October 13, 2011
A Permanently Sweet Solution? October 13, 2011
iCloud and the Mac App Store (5)October 13, 2011
Siri (7)October 12, 2011
Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant (1)October 12, 2011
Dart October 10, 2011
BBEdit 10.1 October 5, 2011
ATPM 17.10 October 4, 2011
Growl 1.3 (7)October 3, 2011
App Sandboxing Risks Eroding the Mac’s Identity (2)October 2, 2011
The App Culture (3)October 2, 2011
Drift Rejected From the App Store (6)September 28, 2011
Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire (4)September 28, 2011
OverDrive Adds Kindle September 26, 2011
Logging Out of Facebook Is Not Enough September 26, 2011
TextMate 2 Announcement (2)September 26, 2011
Disabling Third-Party Cookies Doesn’t (Meaningfully) Improve Privacy September 26, 2011
Sharper (2)September 25, 2011
iCal Search Problem (4)September 25, 2011
Common Miscapitalizations of Tech Names September 22, 2011
One App’s Poison (1)September 22, 2011
Beware of Versions and Auto Save in 10.7 (7)September 22, 2011
How to Stop Safari 5 From Unexpectedly Reloading Pages (5)September 20, 2011
Apple IDs September 20, 2011
Netflix and Qwikster (1)September 19, 2011
Google, JavaScript, and Dart (3)September 15, 2011
Grappler (4)September 15, 2011
Metro September 15, 2011
Reliable Crash Reporting September 15, 2011
John Sculley Interview (1)September 14, 2011
Meet Amazon.com’s First Employee September 9, 2011
Sandbox Corners (5)September 9, 2011
1Password 3.9 (2)September 8, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors, v6 (10)September 6, 2011
The Part of Xcode 4 That Tires Me Out (4)September 2, 2011
ATPM 17.09 September 1, 2011
Twitter’s t.co to Become Mandatory (4)August 31, 2011
Improvements in Windows Explorer (3)August 30, 2011
Making Beautiful Forms August 30, 2011
XPCKit (1)August 27, 2011
Steve Jobs August 25, 2011
Word Breaks for Nerds August 24, 2011
A Peek Past Lambda August 19, 2011
Scripting Language Comparisons (2)August 18, 2011
Kagi’s VisualHub Update (2)August 17, 2011
po [NSNumber numberWithBool:NO] Outputs 1 August 16, 2011
QuickPick Pulled From App Store August 16, 2011
Bezos and O’Reilly on Patent Reform August 15, 2011
Apple Style Span Is Gone August 15, 2011
The Infamous Apple “Syntax” Poster August 15, 2011
History Of The Stack Exchange API, Mistakes August 15, 2011
Customer Loyalty August 15, 2011
Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader August 10, 2011
Searching in Safari 5.1 August 10, 2011
MacBook Air SSD Benchmarks: 2010 vs 2011 vs Lion Encryption August 9, 2011
Lion Is a Quitter (4)August 9, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors, v5 (5)August 8, 2011
UnQL (2)August 5, 2011
iCal’s Missing Months (17)August 2, 2011
ATPM 17.08 August 1, 2011
FastScripts vs. the Mac App Store July 29, 2011
Kobo App Update (2)July 26, 2011
Kindle App Update July 25, 2011
The Xcode 4.1 Review July 25, 2011
Picking Off iCal’s Paper Bits (3)July 23, 2011
Preview Regressions in Lion (14)July 23, 2011
Dock Indicator Lights (2)July 22, 2011
Safari 5.1 and MathML (2)July 22, 2011
Disabling Safari 5.1’s PDF Viewer (12)July 21, 2011
Save Sheet Shortcuts in Lion (3)July 21, 2011
Objective-C Tagged Pointers in Lion (1)July 21, 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion July 20, 2011
Presumed Valid July 20, 2011
Rapid DHCP July 20, 2011
BBEdit 10 (4)July 19, 2011
Git Commit Generation Numbers July 18, 2011
The Final Image July 18, 2011
The Smart Cover, a Few Months In July 18, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors, v4 (4)July 18, 2011
The iPhone’s Home Button July 15, 2011
The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer (2)July 15, 2011
Quicken’s Compatibility With Lion (13)July 8, 2011
Growl 1.3 Changes (1)July 6, 2011
Push, Dropbox, Async, and Indie Sockets July 4, 2011
Apple to Enforce iOS In-app Content Policy July 4, 2011
Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (OTCC) July 4, 2011
LaunchBar 5.1 July 4, 2011
iTunes Match Makes Unlocked Copies July 4, 2011
ATPM 17.07 July 1, 2011
Dropbox Policy Changes July 1, 2011
Final Cut Pro X FAQ (17)June 30, 2011
Obligatory MobileMe Filtering June 30, 2011
Pushing iCloud (4)June 30, 2011
Designed for Use June 30, 2011
Designing GitHub for Mac (6)June 30, 2011
The Future Is Disposable (4)June 25, 2011
Lazy Evaluation in Objective-C June 21, 2011
Dropbox Authentication Bug (6)June 21, 2011
gdb Tips and Tricks June 20, 2011
History of Collaborative Editing June 18, 2011
Kindle Periodical Improvements June 18, 2011
objc_msgSend_vtable (2)June 18, 2011
What We Talk About When We Talk About RSS (8)June 15, 2011
Automatic Reference Counting (5)June 15, 2011
Citi Accounts Were Hacked via URL (1)June 14, 2011
iOS 5 and iCloud (7)June 14, 2011
Hal Abelson Q&A June 10, 2011
App Store Subscriptions, Revised (1)June 9, 2011
Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 Q&A (3)June 5, 2011
The Future of NetNewsWire (2)June 5, 2011
Objective-C Blocks vs. C++0x Lambdas June 5, 2011
Drive Genius 3 LE (2)June 5, 2011
The Depth and Breadth of Python June 5, 2011
DDMathParser June 5, 2011
Nook Simple Touch June 5, 2011
ATPM 17.06 (4)June 2, 2011
It’s About the Hashbangs (1)June 1, 2011
Windows Phone 7 (1)June 1, 2011
Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown May 27, 2011
Gitbox 1.3 (3)May 27, 2011
Amazon’s Mac Downloads Store (1)May 27, 2011
Mac Defender: Pay Attention But Don’t Panic May 27, 2011
The Economics of Carbonite and Dropbox (1)May 27, 2011
Regarding Objective-C & Copland 2010 (7)May 24, 2011
Scripting Is Dead; Long Live Scripting May 20, 2011
SourceTree 1.2.1 (9)May 20, 2011
Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 May 19, 2011
Twitter Requiring OAuth for Direct Messages (3)May 18, 2011
Why You Can’t Really Anonymize Your Data May 17, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors, v3 (7)May 17, 2011
Soghoian Files Complaint to FTC About Dropbox (1)May 13, 2011
Small iOS Developers Targeted Over In-App Purchase Patents (2)May 13, 2011
App Piracy Is a Huge Problem (21)May 13, 2011
iMac Hard Drive Replacement (5)May 12, 2011
iAd Policy Change: No More Kid-Focused Apps (1)May 11, 2011
Long Past Time to Open FaceTime (1)May 11, 2011
iFlowReader Evicted From the App Store May 11, 2011
Sandvox 2.0 (2)May 10, 2011
Dropping Rosetta and Classic (7)May 6, 2011
news:yc Rejected From the App Store May 6, 2011
How Apple’s Moral Compass Works May 2, 2011
Discover the Features or Read the Content May 2, 2011
The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale (5)May 2, 2011
ATPM 17.05 May 1, 2011
CodeRunner 1.0 May 1, 2011
Why Instapaper Free Is Taking an Extended Vacation (3)April 28, 2011
iAds and Location Data (3)April 27, 2011
E-Book Piracy (1)April 25, 2011
Amazon EC2 Outage (1)April 22, 2011
consolidated.db (8)April 21, 2011
Ask Joel Spolsky Anything April 20, 2011
Kindle Lending Library April 20, 2011
Dropbox’s Lack of Security (1)April 20, 2011
NetNewsNostalgia April 20, 2011
So Long, Google Video April 18, 2011
Compile-Time Tips and Tricks (1)April 15, 2011
Cutting That Cord (1)April 15, 2011
The Proper Care and Feeding of NSImage April 15, 2011
Subclassing NSInputStream April 15, 2011
The Tragic Death of the Flip April 14, 2011
Don’t Mimic Real-World Interfaces April 14, 2011
Implementing imp_implementationWithBlock() April 14, 2011
CoffeeScript April 13, 2011
Xcode 4: Open Quickly in Assistant Editor (1)April 13, 2011
QuickPick Rejected From the Mac App Store (5)April 8, 2011
appCode (2)April 6, 2011
Average App Store Review Times April 6, 2011
iPad Subscriber Data (1)April 6, 2011
Cong 0.8 April 5, 2011
ATPM 17.04 April 3, 2011
Signal Handling April 1, 2011
Skype 5 for Mac March 31, 2011
Multitouch Multitasking Gestures on iOS 4.3 (1)March 31, 2011
Briefs Rejected From the App Store, Again (1)March 29, 2011
Taking the “World” Out of WWDC (1)March 29, 2011
Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers March 28, 2011
App Store Design Awards (1)March 28, 2011
Betrand Serlet and Craig Federighi March 24, 2011
.NET/C# Generics History March 24, 2011
Disabling Dropbox’s Haxie (8)March 22, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors, v2 (7)March 19, 2011
Using ppc and 10.4 SDK With Xcode 4 (1)March 19, 2011
Make Sure Your iOS Device Is Really Encrypted (4)March 19, 2011
imp_implementationWithBlock() (2)March 19, 2011
Random Numbers March 18, 2011
Ingredients 1.0 March 18, 2011
The Story of Oregon Trail March 18, 2011
Objective-C Debugging Aids (2)March 17, 2011
Imperfections.app March 17, 2011
Slow Company (2)March 17, 2011
A Plea for Baked Weblogs (1)March 17, 2011
iPad Gets GPS Location via iPhone Personal Hotspot March 12, 2011
Twitter (1)March 12, 2011
Dropbox Mobile Less Secure Than Desktop (1)March 11, 2011
Biplist March 10, 2011
Non-Floating Help Window (1)March 10, 2011
Xcode 4 (10)March 10, 2011
Comparing iPhone Text Editors (17)March 9, 2011
Anatomy of a Crushing March 8, 2011
iPad Smart Covers and iPhone 5 March 8, 2011
Little Brent Tables March 8, 2011
Apple Documentation Search That Works March 8, 2011
On The Usefulness Of Core Data’s User Info March 8, 2011
DropboxSync (1)March 8, 2011
Multitasking March 4, 2011
A Tour of OSAtomic March 4, 2011
Trust (3)March 3, 2011
The Return of NetNewsWire Lite March 3, 2011
iTunes 10.2 March 3, 2011
iPad 2 Smart Cover (1)March 2, 2011
BugzKit March 2, 2011
The Apple Strategy Tax (15)March 2, 2011
Dirty Percent (9)March 2, 2011
ATPM 17.03 March 1, 2011
What Is Apple Doing With QuickTime? (2)February 28, 2011
App Store Revenue Stream (3)February 24, 2011
Blocks + GCD Design Patterns February 24, 2011
What Happens After Yahoo Acquires You February 22, 2011
More on Section 11 (2)February 22, 2011
iPhone Notes App Comparison (1)February 22, 2011
SpyTunes February 22, 2011
In-App Purchase Consequences February 21, 2011
Implementing In-App Purchase (1)February 21, 2011
Readability iOS App Rejected (5)February 21, 2011
Verizon iPhone 4 Antenna (5)February 21, 2011
Confessions of an Apple Store Employee February 18, 2011
A Hypothetical Netflix “iOS Plan” (6)February 16, 2011
Thunderbird in the Usability Lab February 16, 2011
Tower 1.0 February 16, 2011
Thoughts on iOS Content Purchase (9)February 16, 2011
Apple’s Three Laws of Developers February 16, 2011
App Store Subscriptions (18)February 15, 2011
Python’s Dictionary Implementation (1)February 13, 2011
They’ll Die Out Eventually (1)February 12, 2011
Broken Links (4)February 10, 2011
This App Is Your App February 9, 2011
The Squint UX Test February 8, 2011
iCapitalism Rejected From the App Store (2)February 4, 2011
Core Data on Cocoa Unbound (2)February 4, 2011
In-App Purchase and Rent-Seeking February 4, 2011
Accidental Flickr Account Deletion (1)February 4, 2011
ATPM 17.02 February 2, 2011
“1984” (5)January 31, 2011
Frustration With Google AdWords January 27, 2011
Transmit 4.1.5 Now Half-Available (1)January 27, 2011
Complete Friday Q&A January 27, 2011
Instapaper’s Long Tail January 25, 2011
The Future of Dropbox January 24, 2011
iPhone Mail Auto-Scrolling January 24, 2011
Legendary Selections, Dude (1)January 24, 2011
BMScript January 24, 2011
An Encoder Is Not A State Machine (1)January 14, 2011
State of Sync (3)January 14, 2011
What If Flickr Fails? (1)January 14, 2011
Time Machine Failure (9)January 12, 2011
Intel and ARM January 10, 2011
Mac App Store Unanswered Questions January 9, 2011
C Macro Tips and Tricks January 7, 2011
Unique Mac App Store Bundle IDs January 7, 2011
Twitter for Mac’s UI Design (2)January 7, 2011
Trouble in the House of Google (3)January 6, 2011
A Better Text Find & Replace User Interface (1)January 6, 2011
Making Too Much of TDD January 6, 2011
ATPM 17.01 January 3, 2011