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March 09 2010
Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs? [CIO.com]
"The survey found that Macs were cheaper in six of seven computer management categories: troubleshooting, help desk calls, system configuration, user training and supporting infrastructure (servers, networks and printer). Nearly half of the respondents cited software licensing fees as roughly the same for both platforms. A whopping 65 percent of respondents said it costs less to troubleshoot Macs than PCs, 19 percent said they spent the same on both computers, and only 16 percent said they spent less to manage PCs than Macs. Even more impressive, a majority of the respondents citing the low cost of Macs in nearly all categories said Macs were more than 20 percent cheaper to manage than PCs."January 19 2010
Bassjump
A little USB-powered subwoofer for MacBooks to complement the built-in speakers. Cute idea.November 11 2009
MacBook Multitouch
Source code to read the raw gesture data from a MacBook trackpad (or Magic Mouse, I think.)November 10 2009
Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks
A very sweet little demo app that shows the multitouch data being received by the trackpad -- it can track 11(!) finger touches, including the pressure and even the angle your finger is pointing. Works on pre-unibody MBPs too, at least on my August-2008 model.October 29 2009
“ Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices. ”— John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 1984
August 28 2009
What's New In Mac OS X v10.6 [Mac Dev Center]
"This article summarizes the key technology changes and improvements that are available beginning with Mac OS X version 10.6 (also known as "Snow Leopard"). The information about these changes is organized into sections by technology layer: “System Level “Framework Level “Application Level”July 12 2009
Blocks for iPhoneOS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.5 [Plausible Labs]
"Blocks are a great addition to Objective-C, but unfortunately, are only available in Mac OS X 10.6. We have a quite a bit of code that could be greatly simplified using blocks, and so I decided to spend some time back-porting block support to iPhoneOS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.5. "The result, Plausible Blocks, provides a drop-in runtime and Xcode compiler for using blocks in your iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 applications, based on Apple’s Snow Leopard blocks runtime and compiler support."plblocks
"Plausible Blocks (PLBlocks) provides a drop-in runtime and toolchain for using blocks [aka closures] in iPhone 2.2+ and Mac OS X 10.5 applications. Both the runtime and compiler patches are direct backports from Apple's Snow Leopard source releases."July 03 2009
ParseKit - Cocoa Objective-C Framework for parsing, tokenizing and language processing
Mac/iPhone library for string-scanning and writing language parsers. By Todd Ditchendorf, author of Fluid. MIT license.June 09 2009
Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Enhancements and Refinements
Giant list of improvements (and some new features) in OS X 10.6.May 27 2009
The Panic Three-Day Sale
“Yes! Coda, Transmit, CandyBar, and Unison are 50% off. It's never happened before, and it'll probably never happen again. Serious. We're too busy building new things for later this year to notice how crazy this is. Prices are only valid from 12:01 AM PST May 27th to 11:59 PM PST May 29th. Enjoy these apps today and lock in a discount towards any future paid updates.”March 29 2009
Why MacRuby Matters (Present & Future) | Zen and the Art of Programming
The new experimental branch of MacRuby (0.5) uses LLVM to translate to optimized machine code. it's early days yet, but performance is already at least 3x that of Ruby 1.9.1, making it by far the fastest Ruby implementation known. All this and negligible startup time and deep integration with the Cocoa APIs ... should be a terrific way to write OS X apps!February 08 2009
Ruby dictionary for Mac OS X
“Basically, you just install extra dictionary into Mac OS X Dictionary.app with Ruby documentation and get system-wide access to API docs through the operating systems dictionary service. “One of the coolest things is to have access to documentation through Spotlight. While coding, just hit ⌘ + Space and start typing the name of the function or class name that you're looking for.”February 07 2009
iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.
“ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails' standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-services of any language from the iPhone.” Yow!February 02 2009
Lighthouse Keeper [M Cubed Software]
“Lighthouse on your Mac: The best issue tracker on the web is now coming to your Mac in a big way. With the comprehensive coverage that Lighthouse Keeper provides you will rarely need to go into Lighthouse to manage your tickets.”January 24 2009
Video: The Mac at 25 - interview with Andy Hertzfeld
Nice (but short) video interview with one of the lead engineers of the original Mac.Larry Magid’s 1984 LA Times review of 128K Mac
Today (1/24/09) is the 25th anniversary of the day the first Macintosh went on sale. Tech writer Larry Magid has posted a transcript of his original review of the Macintosh from the Los Angeles Times.December 07 2008
Create Booklet 1.0.1
Mac plugin that lets you print half-page-size booklets from any app, just by choosing "PDF > Print Booklet" in the Print panel. (freeware)November 14 2008
Introducing BWToolkit
“BWToolkit is a BSD licensed plugin for Interface Builder 3 that contains commonly used UI elements and other useful objects. Using these objects is as simple as dragging them from the library to your canvas or document window.”November 03 2008
Netflix ‘watch instantly’ for Mac goes public beta
“Netflix has opened the doors for Mac users who want to try their “Watch Instantly” feature — you can now sign up to be part of a public beta program to test the service before its general roll-out.” I tried this last night and it worked well, even over my third-world-esque 1.5MBps DSL line. Not full DVD quality but better than NTSC.
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