Sony and Camera Sensor Size
David Pogue: In short, the single most important statistic about a camera is not the number of megapixels (which actually means very little to picture quality). It’s sensor size. […] “We don’t believe...
View ArticleApple Emerging Technology Job
Apple (via Kontra): Apple’s Emerging Technology group is looking for a senior engineer passionate about exploring emerging technologies to create paradigm shifting cloud based solutions. The candidate...
View ArticleLobotomizing Quicken 2007
Avi Drissman (via Nicholas Riley): But Wealthfront uses Apex Clearing to hold their accounts, and while Apex paid their Intuit tax and offers QFX downloads, guess what? They paid for Windows but not...
View ArticleSlow Updater Purchasing Habits
David Smith: I was a bit surprised at how straightforwardly this analysis came out. It seems clear that the distribution of people who are purchasing your apps follows closely the overall adoption of...
View ArticleApple’s Secure Coding Guide
Apple (via Jim Manico): Secure coding is the practice of writing programs that are resistant to attack by malicious or mischievous people or programs. Secure coding helps protect a user’s data from...
View ArticleOpening Terminal Commands in Editor
When editing a command in Terminal, you can type Control-X, Control-E to open it in your text editor of choice (via Wesley Darlington). When you save your changes and close the document, the command is...
View ArticleUTI Type Browser
Jonathan Wight’s uti.schwa.io is a browseable, searchable listing of Uniform Type Identifiers.
View ArticleSwipeSelection Pro
Jeff Benjamin: Everyone can benefit from SwipeSelection’s extremely improved cursor management when compared to stock iOS. I apologize in advance to Kyle Howells, developer of SwipeSelection, but this...
View ArticleARM Immediate Value Encoding
Alisdair McDiarmid: The rotated byte encoding allows the 12-bit value to represent a much more useful set of numbers than just 0–4095. ARM immediate values can represent any power of 2 from 0 to 31. So...
View ArticleHow Do Alarm Clock Apps Work on iOS?
Ole Begemann: Rise’s surprising solution is to opt out of iOS multitasking altogether. What was presumably intended by Apple as a temporary option for apps when multitasking was first introduced in iOS...
View ArticleFleksy SDK for iOS
Speaking of keyboards, there’s now an SDK for adding the Fleksy keyboard to iOS apps. It’s like TextExpander, where each app has to embed the code separately, since iOS doesn’t allow this sort of...
View ArticleNSManagedObjectContext’s Parent Context
Benedict Cohen: parentContext was introduced alongside a new concurrency model. To use parentContext both the parent and child contexts must adopt the new concurrency model. But the problem addressed...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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