TUAW got a redesign yesterday. Looks good. There is an apt description here, something about a lipstick and pig, but I just can’t put my finger on it.
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Does Apple Listen?
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Recently Apple changed its review policy on the App Store. Now you are required to purchase the application before posting a review. Matt Gemmell alerted the blogosphere with a post titled: Apple is Listening. But I’m not sure they are.
Apple’s greatness comes from an unyielding focus on what they feel to be the right course. [...]
Focus and Recompose
Monday, September 29th, 2008
James Duncan Davidson explains the pitfalls of the often used focus and recompose photography technique. I’ve been bitten by this problem more than once when using my over-hyped 50mm 1.8 lens.
Head of Norton AntiVirus Uses Mac
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Head of Norton AntiVirus uses a MacBook Pro.
From CNet:
You’ve got to wonder why. Is it because he doesn’t trust Norton enough to keep a Windows PC safe? Or is he so tired of anti-virus applications intruding on his daily computing activities that he’s switched to a platform where he doesn’t need AV software?
All [...]
Music Based on OS X Alerts
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Missed this song based on OS X alerts when it came out earlier this year. Entertaining. I hope that if you downloaded the AAC file and put it in iTunes and fired up the Visualizer, what you would see is the spinning beach ball.
[Via Big Contrarian]
Fine Cars-Good Advice
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Apt advice from a car collector:
What I choose first in a car is a look, of course an engine has to be good. I have chosen not to buy cars that I could not drive daily… because they are too fragile or too valuable.
When it comes to the finer things of life, whether [...]
Choke
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Choke, a new film adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s work of the same name, is playing now. Watch the trailer. Palahniuk is one of the few authors where the film adaptation was better than the novel. I say this about Fight Club, and I say it as a pretty big fan of Palahniuk.
When I say it [...]
What It Takes to be a Genius
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
MacBlogz reports on the vetting process to become an Apple Store Genius:
Next up were about 20 technical questions that they wanted to ask me. One of the managers kept telling me that it doesn’t matter how many I get right, and that most of his staff couldn’t even answer 10 of them
Unless things have drastically [...]
Silence is Rotten
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
…in dealing with Apple, one should never assume that the company is being malicious when its behavior can be just as easily explained by incompetence. —Jason Snell, Don’t drive iPhone developers away, Apple
Apple vs. Microsoft is done up a little too much in the media and in the minds of [...]
Translating Apple’s Recent Change to App Store Rejection Letters, as Written By Steve Jobs
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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Hey developers: Fuck you.
Look when I gave you web apps, you called bullshit, and now when I give you native applications you call bullshit. There’s no pleasing you so we don’t even try any more. And why should we - you aren’t going anywhere. Sure a few [...]