After the stress of moving (tomorrow!) is passed, I’ll be tackling a slate of new challenges this fall, including the usual work at Red Sweater, developing future versions of MarsEdit and my other apps. But I’ll also be punctuating the season with a few speaking opportunities at three great conferences. Çingleton. October 14-15. Montreal, Québec. [...]

I was hired at Apple on May 13, 1996. I was twenty years old, and had been using a Mac for approximately two years, during which time I had been contracting for Apple on and off as a QA engineer, while I finished my B.A. at UC Santa Cruz. Gil Amelio was the CEO. I [...]

One of the UI concessions OS X Lion makes to a time-honored Microsoft Windows feature, is the addition window-resizing hotspots on all edges of a given window. Traditionally, Mac users have been limited to resizing windows only through the use of the “Zoom” button in the title bar, or by clicking and dragging the resize [...]

OS X Lion brings dramatically redesigned versions of the classic iCal and Address Book applications. Many people, or at least some important decision makers inside Apple, are very happy with these changes. Other folks, such as myself, believe they look and behave like crap. When I first saw the Lion version of iCal, my eyes [...]