Working 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleThe 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...
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