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It’s the Production Line, Stupid 16 Aug 2013 | 12:34 am
“Apple Absolutely Has To Make An iPhone With A Bigger Screen” (Warning: Business Insider link) While that may be true, take a look at what happened at the end of last year: 47.8 Million iPhones Sold...
Cheap as in Computing 14 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
There’s a good case for an iPhone that costs less. But with this lower cost, developers fear that device specifications will suffer: If Apple really wants to compete with Android in the cheap device ...
AMBER Alert Usability 7 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
If you live in the State of California, you got an AMBER Alert last night just before 11 PM. If you have an iOS device, you saw something like this on your lock screen: Or like this in Notification C...
App Updates for iOS 7 3 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Like many of my fellow developers, I am in the middle of an update of an app for iOS 7. As you’d expect, it’s a lot more work than previous versions of iOS. But results are stunning: both David Lanham...
The Origin of Tweet 29 Jun 2013 | 05:36 am
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the ...
Been There, Done That 12 Jun 2013 | 02:13 am
We’re all thinking a lot different today. Designers and developers alike are coming to terms with Apple’s latest iteration of iOS. As I tweeted just before the announcement, there is only one way to d...
Launch Services Woes 23 Apr 2013 | 02:03 am
For the past week or so, I’ve been suffering from slowness in the Finder, corrupted icons and terrible performance in our version control client (Versions). Today, I decided to do something about it. ...
Logging with Xcode Breakpoints 12 Apr 2013 | 05:59 am
If you don’t already know about it, setting actions for breakpoints in Xcode is a great way to monitor repetitive code without adding a bunch of NSLog() to your code. After setting a breakpoint, right...
A Retina Web 11 Jan 2013 | 02:52 am
A tweet this morning by James Duncan Davidson got me thinking about the future of Retina images on the web. Before I start talking about the future, let’s take a quick look at the past. There was a ti...
Behind The App: Twitterrific 5 7 Dec 2012 | 01:37 am
I’ve always loved shows that take you behind the scenes of creative efforts: Project Runway and Classic Albums being two of my favorites. Here’s one about the development of Twitterrific 5. Since a lo...
