Archive for the 'Hacking' Category

From Steve’s Mouth

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

So, the day has come. Today, developers learn what the next step is on the road to developing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. We’re eager to find out what awaits us in the weeks and months to come. Will anybody get to develop apps, or only Apple-approved developers? Will the apps be sold […]

Find Gremlins With BBEdit

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

MarsEdit has a little shortcoming that can cause a vexing situation from time to time. It takes what you type or paste into it a bit too literally. So if you flub up at the keyboard and make some wacky keystrokes, you might end up with a weird “invisible character” in your blog post. What […]

Rogue Displays

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The folks at Rogue Amoeba have a product called Airfoil, which enables sending arbitrary audio streams to “AirTunes” devices. They just updated it to add support for streaming to your Apple TV. While Apple TV is receiving this streamed audio, it shows various information about the sender, which gave Rogue Amoeba an idea for doing […]

Crappy Crash Logs

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Developers who write code inevitably write code that crashes. Luckily for our users, 99% of those crashes happen on our own development machines, and we get the opportunity to fix them before shipping them off to our unsuspecting computers. But every once in a while even the most polished and refined software exhibits that nastiest […]