ERA by Jawbone (2014)
Nicholas Riley: Externally the new ERA looks much the same as the old one, just smaller, lighter and thinner. […] The new ERA has shorter battery life but no apparent change to the headset’s excellent...
View ArticleQuit and Reopen Apple Mail to Receive Messages
Apple (via Mac Rumors): For some email providers, new email messages in Mail may only appear to arrive when Mail is first opened. No new email arrives until Mail is quit and reopened. What’s odd about...
View Article37signals Becomes Basecamp
Jason Fried: Moving forward, we will be a one product company. That product will be Basecamp. Our entire company will rally around Basecamp. With our whole team - from design to development to customer...
View ArticleBegging for App Ratings
Wil Shipley: The total number of users who’ve rated this particular version is only six. Never mind that 113 people have rated our app before—if you look at the “all versions” rating, our rating is a...
View Articleman’s Special Xcode Support
Wolf Rentzsch: So Apple’s man calls xcselect_get_manpaths() to dynamically add Xcode-specific paths to man's search paths. Sneaky. […] libxcselect.dylib is key to Apple’s technique of providing stubs...
View ArticleReplacing the Objective-C “Delegate Pattern” With ReactiveCocoa
Justin DeWind: Instead of having to assign a delegate to the UISearchBar and implement searchBar:textDidChange:, let’s modify the UISearchBar so there is a signal representing changes to the text.
View ArticleVerizon Using Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix
David Raphael (via Dave Winer): I’ve since tested this almost every day for the last couple of weeks. During the day – the bandwidth is normal to AWS. However, after 4pm or so – things get slow. In my...
View ArticleAvoiding Massive Controllers
Brad Grzesiak (via Mark Bernstein): Well, to be sure we’re on the same page, allow me propose rules that must be followed in order to adhere to this heuristic: The IBAction macro must not be used in a...
View ArticleTales From the Crash Mines
Landon Fuller: This has been a deep dive, and I hope that we’ve presented some useful methodologies that you can use to analyze complex or difficult-to-reproduce issues in your own code. Even if you’re...
View ArticleStrings, Unicode, Localization, and Parsing
The new issue of objc.io is all about strings. Ole Begemann: The truth is that an NSString object actually represents an array of UTF-16-encoded code units. Accordingly, the length method returns the...
View ArticleDesign Details: Paper by Facebook
Brian Lovin: Paper by Facebook has been out for a day now and the reviews are, for the most part, quite divided. I haven’t been an avid Facebook user for some time, but the design and attention to...
View ArticleScriptnotes on Final Draft
Scriptnotes 129 (via Guy English): Craig Mazin And so I was a very early adopter of Final Draft. And I stayed with Final Draft through the revisions. And along the way I got disillusioned. And I’ve...
View ArticleEmbedding Resource Files in a Cocoa Foundation Command Line Tool
Drew McCormack: Graham Lee and several others pointed me to two standard solutions: you can use the linker to embed the files in the __text section of the Mach-O binary, or you can use a tool called...
View Articlerezycle 1.5.5
Rezycle (App Store): Simply drop your classic application or resource file onto rezycle and it will extract all of the resources for you and place them into a folder next to the original file. But...
View ArticleAn Illustrated History of objc_msgSend
Greg Parker on the Mavericks version of objc_msgSend: The method cache data structure is rearranged for higher speed and smaller data cache footprint but larger total dirty memory footprint....
View ArticleOn Hacking MicroSD Cards
Andrew Huang: Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself. On...
View ArticleTimestamp Disservice
Daniel Jalkut: In the event that the timestamp server cannot be reached for whatever reason, codesign simply fails. This is probably a good idea, because if it’s important for signed code to also...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Cheap USB to Ethernet Adapter
Angus Gratton: One of them is sold on ebay for $3.85 AU ($3.99 US), including postage to Australia. The other is sold at Apple Stores for $29. […] The Apple adapter also has many more small components...
View ArticleHopper Disassembler 3.0
I highly recommend Hopper. Vincent Bénony: The user interface has been greatly enhanced thanks to the new inspector panel, which made its appearance on the right side of the main window. This panel...
View ArticleApple Passes Microsoft
Benedict Evans: This is a pretty good illustration of the scale of mobile: Apple limits itself only to the high end of the mobile market but still sells more units than the whole PC industry.
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