OS X’s Spotlight searching functionality is pretty handy, but I’ve always been annoyed by having to arrow down to select the top hit and launch/open it. I stumbled upon a shortcut by accident. Holding down Cmd will highlight the top hit, and then pressing Return will launch/open it. So, Cmd-Space, type, Cmd-Return. [...]
I was in the Tampa Apple store around 1pm today, and they still had iPhones in stock. There were maybe 20 or 30 people in line. It wasn’t that crazy. I called ahead and reserved a MacBook Pro (more on that later). They had someone help me personally and sell me [...]
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.
Translation: while a lethal dose of caffeine might make you “enter The Matrix,” thereby stopping time and allowing you to fix five validation errors in half a second, it does not improve our site’s ability to process your requests.
Apple’s announcement that there will be no software development kit for iPhone, while it may fool some in the media, will not fool developers, who see this as a giant “f-you.”
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Apple’s press release could use some translation, with a hat tip to John Gruber.
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications
Our browser works.
When it begins shipping [...]
I’ve had Verizon FiOS Internet service at my house for three weeks. My IP address hasn’t changed yet. The tech who installed the service said he thought IPs change every week or so, but here I am nearly a month later with the same address. Can anyone else with residential FiOS service [...]
Six Apart announced yesterday that Movable Type 4.0 will have a GPL version. This is big news. It certainly raises a lot of questions in my mind. Where would I be today had Movable Type 3.0 been released with a GPL license in 2004? Where would WordPress be? How will [...]
Yes, MacBooks Pro. “MacBook Pros” sounds horrible to my ears.
Yesterday morning, Apple announced an update to their MacBook Pro line of professional portable computers. A processor upgrade means that all models are faster, and can now address 4 GB of RAM. Previous models were limited to addressing 3 GB of RAM (which [...]
I started out with one blog: Tempus Fugit. I blogged about all sorts of things there, from personal topics to technology to politics. When my involvement in the WordPress project intensified, I split off my WordPress blogging to a new site: Mark on WordPress. And once again, I feel the need to [...]