An O’Reilly book being released on March 13, 2008:
Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple’s desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground. iPhone [...]
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iPhone Open Application Development Book from O’Reilly (not from the SDK)
iPhone: Apple trojan 2.0
Ars Technica is reporting that on March 6th Apple will hold a press conference where they will announce the “iPhone Software Roadmap”:
learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.
Wow, look at Apple sounding so enterprisy with words like “Roadmap”. So it’s pretty much set(as I said before) [...]
Imaginary performance boosts
Brent Simmons:
I bet every software developer has seen this—release a new version, even one you know to be slower, and some people will thank you for the performance boost.
Perception is a bitch and people do buy into the numbers game. 1.14 > 1.1.3 thus faster.
I guess that’s why Microsoft doesn’t use numbers that much (2000, [...]
iPhone firmware 1.1.4 but no SDK
On Sunday night I said we should expect the the SDK but no consumer update. I got it….but completely opposite.
So next time I make a prediction….believe the contrary.
But trust me… the SDK won’t come out without Steve presenting it. It’s his baby!
(Via Macenstein.)
New MacBook and MacBook Pros: No exterior change!
Apple today released an update for their Macbooks and MacBook Pro laptops. The MBP now include MultiTouch trackpads and a very nice set of hardware upgrades like 200 GB standard HD.
My only concern is the MacBook Pro’s casing which hasn’t changed much since the G4 PowerBook. It sucks that I have owned three Apple laptops [...]
Mac Pride
I just got a call from a family member that recently switched to a Mac. They took over 200 pictures yesterday and were resizing them to upload them to facebook. The managed to do 20 pictures in a couple of hours using Photoshop.
They called me because of some trouble they were having uploading pics [...]
Get a Mac to go with that digital picture frame you got for Valentines Day
Apparently they have discovered trojans in picture frames coming from China. Who buys these things anyway?
John Gruber comments on article by Deborah Gage in the San Francisco Chronicle:
I love how it’s called a “computer virus”, not a “Windows virus”, but the advice they offer is to test the thing on a Mac or Linux [...]
Mac OS X 10.5.2 Officially Out!
Open up Software Update since Leopard’s second mayor update is out. There are more than 130 bug fixes and improvements. Here is a list of changes. I am specially exited to take at look at the new Time Machine feature:
Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled [...]
What menu option do I choose?
One of the only good features available from the highly critized Leopard help. Menu bar option search assistant.
(Via TUAW.)