Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Higher Resolution iPhones

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

John Gruber analyzed the ramifications of an alleged 960×640 screen on the upcoming iPhone model:

Compare type on your iPhone or iPod Touch against the type in a glossy magazine. […] The next-gen iPhone is shooting for that caliber of resolution — not merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices, but to rival the optical [...]

Jump To PayPal Transaction

Friday, April 16th, 2010

I complained on Twitter about PayPal’s unfortunate transaction search utility, which doesn’t recognize the transaction ID itself as a search term.
Georg C. Brückmann chimed in with a semi-solution, which is a URL template you can use to jump directly to a PayPal transaction by ID. Take the root PayPal URL for your country, and add [...]

A Stroke Of Luck

Friday, April 9th, 2010

One of my customers reported a really subtle bug having to do with a keyboard shortcut for a command. I’m going to change some facts to protect the innocent, but imagine I got a report:

“Every time I press cmd-N to create a new document and start typing, instead of accepting the text, it just beeps [...]

FastScripts Plugin For Google Quick Search Box

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

I love to be surprised by what customers manage to do with my products, so I was thrilled when Martin Kühl wrote to tell me about his GitHub project that provides a FastScripts plugin for Google Quick Search Box.
If you’re not familiar with Google Quick Search Box, it’s basically a Quicksilver-style launcher, which can open [...]