Category: Apple
Oct 192007
The Marble of Doom. Record how long the marble/beachball/pinwheel impedes your progress, then see how much money that time would be worth if it were billable. I should do this for the time I’ve spent working around IE6.
Aug 72007
The new version of iPhoto, announced not too long ago, features Web Gallery, a way to export your photo library to a .Mac web share. The sample gallery confirms that these Ajax-heavy galleries use Prototype and Scriptaculous under the hood. It could not make me happier that Apple seem to have adopted the two libraries company-wide.
Jul 92007
Do not drop, disassemble, open, crush, bend, deform, puncture, shred, microwave, incinerate, paint, or insert foreign objects into iPhone.
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iPhone Product Info. Guide
Jul 82007
In case you’re not tired of iPhone musings: as I was playing with the two-finger zooming in Safari, I remembered Dave Hyatt’s April 2006 blog post on high-DPI web sites. Eerily prescient in hindsight, he argues that web developers should make sure their images can scale — in anticipation of high-res displays (like, say, 160 dpi) and browsers that let the user zoom in (like, say, Safari). The timing of the post makes me wonder just what Hyatt knew and when he knew it.
(4)Jul 12007
Joe Hewitt: Firebug for iPhone. Oh, hell yes. Joe: I owe you a keg of beer if we’re ever in the same place at the same time.
Jun 302007
I’m going to have to compile a list of all the tiny UI touches Apple got right with the iPhone. I’ve been playing with this thing for a couple hours and I keep discovering new stuff.
(1)May 302007
Word is the MicroTards are fuming at me for taking a “low blow” and comparing Windows to hell. Maybe they’re right. The analogy isn’t perfect. You can’t get out of hell. You can get out of Windows.
Mar 112007
If you’re like me and your MacBook Pro keeps waking up inside your laptop bag (draining your precious battery life), you can force it into “safe sleep” (hibernation) instead by running sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1 from the terminal. It takes a bit longer to go to sleep, but it also prevents these accidental awakenings, since you have to hold down the power key for a second or two to wake it up.
Feb 162007
Allan Odgaard plugs my JavaScript Tools Bundle, which (thanks to Thomas Aylott) is now a part of BundleForge. Pretty cool.
(1)Feb 72007
Maciej announces feature freeze for WebKit nightlies. They’re going to focus on stability leading up to the Leopard release. They’ve added a lot of stuff since 2.0, especially on the JavaScript front: mutable DOM prototypes, DOM L3 XPath, getters and setters, and engine performance improvements. If all browsers moved this quickly I’d be a very happy man.
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