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2008

Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked. “am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted] @yahoo.com”. Classy.

# 8th July 2008, 10:10 am / apple, security, socialengineering

Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple's standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that's kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos.

Ben Charny

# 6th June 2008, 9:08 pm / ben-charny, flash, adobe, apple, funny, iphone

The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer. This third episode (the second has also been published) is awesome—Sketchpad (the first GUI), NLS, Xerox PARC, the Homebrew Computer Club, Apple and the Macintosh, Lotus 123, Microsoft, and Virtual Reality presented as the “future” of computing. Worth investing an hour to watch it.

# 6th June 2008, 8:18 pm / themachinethatchangedtheworld, thedreammachine, sketchpad, parc, xeroxparc, apple, macintosh, microsoft, vr

Heavier than Air. Charles Miller points out that every time Apple breaks the mold with a new product (the iPod, the iPod Mini, the iMac and now the MacBook Air) they lose in feature matrix comparisons but win in the marketplace.

# 22nd January 2008, 1:32 am / charles-miller, apple, macbookair, imac, ipod, ipodmini

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

# 13th January 2008, 11:31 pm / google, macbook, apple, usability, natalie-downe, errors, searchability

The strain due to the fact that most business desktops are locked into the Microsoft platform, at a time when both the Apple and GNU/Linux alternatives are qualitatively safer, better, and cheaper to operate, will start to become impossible to ignore.

Tim Bray

# 3rd January 2008, 1:08 pm / tim-bray, predictions, microsoft, windows, linux, apple, osx

2007

The companies that couldn't beat Microsoft have all died, and evolution has resulted in three very different types of companies that are each immune to Microsoft's strategies in their own way. Yet all are still vulnerable to the same thing: a better product. For the end users, this is a good position for the industry to be in.

Ian Hickson

# 6th December 2007, 3:43 pm / microsoft, open-source, apple, google, ian-hickson, competition

How Time Machine works. From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images.

# 29th October 2007, 9:56 am / parallels, apple, osx, leopard, john-siracusa, timemachine, virtualisation, arstechnica

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review. John Siracusa’s 17 page review of Leopard, covering everything from UI tweaks to DTrace sample code. Smart use of embedded video and audio too—I suggest setting aside at least an hour to work through it all.

# 29th October 2007, 8:55 am / john-siracusa, arstechnica, leopard, osx, dtrace, apple

CSS Transforms. WebKit can now do transforms (scale, rotate, translate and skew) in CSS via a new -webkit-transform property. Transforms behave like position relative in that they don’t affect the layout of the page. You can also provide a full affine transform matrix as a shortcut.

# 26th October 2007, 9:45 pm / matrix, transforms, affinetransformation, graphics, webkit, safari, apple, css, browsers

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage. SQLite strikes again. The WebKit team have included a neat update to their Web Inspector that lets you browse and modify your client-side databases.

# 20th October 2007, 12:03 pm / webkit, apple, safari, sqlite, offline, html5, whatwg, webinspector

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February.

Steve Jobs

# 17th October 2007, 6:04 pm / apple, iphone, sdk, developers, steve-jobs, john-gruber

Apple—Web apps. Interesting (and slightly confusing) to see Apple choose “Web apps” as the term for applications targeted at the iPhone and iPod touch.

# 11th October 2007, 8:40 pm / apple, iphone, ipodtouch, ipod, webapps

I thought the big draw for Apple hardware was that "It Just Works." By breaking it, you must know you’re giving up the "Just Works" factor, so what’s left? Rounded corners?

Mark Pilgrim

# 5th October 2007, 4:32 pm / mark-pilgrim, apple

For any song you already own on CD, Apple is asking you to pay three times for it in order to use it as a ringtone on your iPhone: once for the CD you’ve already purchased, again to buy a needless duplicate of the track from the iTunes Store, and a third time to generate the ringtone.

John Gruber

# 14th September 2007, 8:15 am / apple, iphone, ringtones, music, john-gruber, ripoff

Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy. I’ve long been saying that the existence of a ringtone “industry” is a bug, not a feature.

# 12th September 2007, 10:08 am / ringtones, apple, john-gruber, itunes

The Tale of the Mechanical Virus. “What I had discovered, in essence, was a mechanical virus. It infects Mac laptops and speads via the DVI adapters.”—I really hope this isn’t why my DVI adapter is on the blink.

# 9th September 2007, 12:11 pm / mac, dvi, apple, mechanicalvirus, virus

It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse. NBC’s request that Apple “stiffen anti-piracy provisions” is down-right scary.

# 3rd September 2007, 1:42 am / apple, osx, microsoft, nbc, john-gruber

The other interesting thing about the 1.0.2 update is that Apple didn't try to prevent the hacks that are out there [...] one would have assumed that Apple would have done something in this release as a sort of "shot across the bow" but they didn't, which bodes well for a future, more open platform.

Russell Beattie

# 22nd August 2007, 10:08 pm / iphone, russell-beattie, apple, update

Django on the iPhone. Jacob got it working. The next image in his photostream shows the Django admin application querying his phone’s local database of calls.

# 19th August 2007, 7:58 am / jacob-kaplan-moss, django, python, iphone, apple

mobileterminal (via) The iPhone now has a GUI terminal application, which can run a comand-line SSH client. Now I really want one.

# 16th August 2007, 2:54 pm / iphone, apple, mobileterminal, jacob-kaplan-moss

SproutCore (via) MVC JavaScript framework used to build the new .Mac Web Gallery application.

# 7th August 2007, 11:35 pm / ajax, javascript, mvc, apple, dotmac, bill-humphries

Die, Marker Felt, Die! How to replace Marker Felt in the iPhone notes application with Helvetica, via some hackery with jailbreak, MacFUSE and iphonedisk. By the time they arrive in the UK it looks like they’ll have been hacked wide open.

# 16th July 2007, 10:50 pm / iphone, iphonedisk, macfuse, helvetica, apple, jailbreak, jacob-kaplan-moss

I heard that Foxconn - the place that makes the iPods and iPhones - consumes 3,000 pigs a day.

Bunnie Huang

# 14th July 2007, 12:59 pm / ipod, iphone, china, bunniehuang, apple, pigs

The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses. One is a form of loan-sharking: they put up money to make records, then force recording artists to pay the money back with exorbitant interest. The other business is distribution.

Fake Steve Jobs

# 5th July 2007, 12:03 pm / music, riaa, apple, steve-jobs, fakestevejobs, loansharks

Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone (via) Apple’s iPhone developer documentation.

# 4th July 2007, 1:58 am / michal-migurski, iphone, apple

Safari Beta 3.0.1 for Windows. A nice fast turnaround on fixes for security flaws in the beta.

# 14th June 2007, 9:56 am / security, safari, apple, patch

Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours (via) Once again, down to handling of alternative URL protocol schemes.

# 12th June 2007, 1:30 pm / 0day, security, windows, safari, apple

Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows. “Turn off site-specific hacks” is one of the menu options.

# 12th June 2007, 1:18 pm / safari3, safari, apple, windows, browsers

Safari 3 Public Beta. Safari for Windows. Unfortunately this kills the best excuse corporate Web developers had for getting Macs (“we need to run all our supported browsers on one machine”).

# 11th June 2007, 11:06 pm / safari, windows, apple