The App Stores Are Not “Long Tail”
Yann Lechelle: Chris Anderson correctly analysed that the advent of e-commerce sites like Amazon or iTunes gave more prominence to the bottom of the catalogue than ever, therefore making it possible to...
View ArticleYou’re Using Your Camera’s Flash Wrong
David Pogue: Truth is, you shouldn’t use the flash at a performance like that anyway. Not at a sports event, not at a school play, not on Broadway, not at fireworks, not at the Olympics — because your...
View ArticleiOS Security White Paper
Apple (PDF): Apple does not log messages or attachments, and their contents are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data....
View Articlebup
bup (via Charles Parnot): Highly efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format. Capable of doing fast incremental backups of virtual machine images. […] It uses a rolling checksum...
View ArticleHow to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing
Mike Vanier (via @CompSciFact): The Y combinator is a higher-order function. It takes a single argument, which is a function that isn't recursive. It returns a version of the function which is...
View ArticleLife Outside the Mac App Store
Dan Counsell: It’s been 4 years and throughout all this time we've continued to sell RapidWeaver in and out of the Mac App Store. I expected direct sales to trail off as the years went on. I kept...
View ArticleOpt Out of Dropbox’s Arbitration Clause
Dropbox: We’ve made a lot of changes to Dropbox since we last updated our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and online Dropbox for Business Agreements. So today, we’re starting to email users to let...
View ArticleSoftware Update Backdoor?
Nat!: Another question I asked myself was: Is Software Update actually contacting Apple servers or am I being served a compromised update with even more security holes by the NSA? Does it matter where...
View ArticleApple Releases iBeacon Specification
Doug Thompson (via Sven Read): Apple has quietly rolled out its iBeacon specification as it starts to certify devices that carry the Bluetooth LE standard. Under their MFI program, manufacturers can...
View ArticleStarting to Demo the Wolfram Language
Steven Wolfram: We’re getting closer to the first official release of the Wolfram Language—so I am starting to demo it more publicly. Here’s a short video demo I just made. It’s amazing to me how much...
View ArticleCocoa Script “Shaders”
Gus Mueller: I also played around with Cocoa Script “shaders” for shape graphics in Acorn. This won’t ship in 4.4 (or maybe ever?), but it was fun to code up and might be something awesome some day....
View ArticleWorking With Woz
Randy Wigginton: Working with Woz was like working with the smartest person you’ve ever known kicked up a couple notches combined with a practical joker. The best times Woz and I had were not coding,...
View ArticleiOS Keylogging Vulnerability
FireEye (via Ashkan Soltani): We have created a proof-of-concept "monitoring" app on non-jailbroken iOS 7.0.x devices. This “monitoring” app can record all the user touch/press events in the...
View ArticleiOS Background Fetch
David Smith: There is, however, an intrinsic danger in applying this ability without fully thinking through the implications. When enabled within your applications you are essentially building a...
View ArticleCore Intuition Jobs
Daniel Jalkut on Core Intuition Jobs: Core Intuition Jobs aims to solve this problem by becoming the go-to source for both employers and job-seekers in the Cocoa development market. Other sites like...
View ArticleFont Points and the Web
Craig Hockenberry: Let’s just say I spent a lot of quality time with Google before eventually stumbling across a hint on Microsoft’s developer site. The document talks about using a default setting of...
View ArticleThe Netflix/Comcast Deal
Russell Brandom: US cable giant Comcast has announced a deal with Netflix allowing Netflix’s video-streaming service a more direct route through Comcast’s network, which should improve streaming video...
View ArticleApple’s SSL/TLS Bug
CVE-2014-1266: The SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange function in libsecurity_ssl/lib/sslKeyExchange.c in the Secure Transport feature in the Data Security component in Apple iOS 6.x before 6.1.6 and 7.x...
View ArticleKVO Considered Harmful
Soroush Khanlou (via Marcel Weiher): All of these nuances in the API cause KVO to embody what is known as a pit of failure rather than a pit of success. The pit of success is a concept that Jeff Atwood...
View ArticleAre Core Data Fetched Properties Useful?
Marcus Zarra: Unlike a relationship, there is no way to pre-fetch a fetched property. Therefore, if you are going to fetch a large number of entities and then desire to access the fetched property for...
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