Archive:September, 2009

History of the Browser User-Agent String

 

Slightly more nerdy in reading, but of great entertainment and technological historical significance Go through the ways that browsers tell websites what type of browser it is. Including masquerading as other browsers, the browser wars of the 90s, the Gecko/Firefox/Camino/Gnome camp and the WebKit/Safari/Konquerer/Nokia/iPhone goodness that we have today. Very interesting read and nice to [...]

Bluff Javascript Graphing Library

 

For those who have ever wanted to be able to create quick and effective graphs simply from Javascript, here is the library for you. Weighing in at 8kb, with a few simple additions to your page you can have a dynamic graph. A great way to present data to users. 1 2 3 4 5 [...]

MailWrangler Denied for iPhone App Store

 

Yet another iPhone application has been denied from the App Store this week, and yet again the reason is quoted as “duplicating functionality” of an already available iPhone application. In this case, the application in reference is Apple’s own Mail.app on the iPhone. MailWrangler gives a way to easily use multiple GMail accounts simultaneously. Something [...]

Daring Fireball: Digging Deeper

 

Recently on Daring Fireball, John discusses the basic concepts behind Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign and Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” rebut. John points out a few differences between the tactics and why in fact Microsoft’s commercials are more detrimental rather than helpful for the company and the brand. The framing of Apple’s ads is [...]

Coding Tip: Comma Trick

 

Through the years I’ve been fervently coding, I would have thought this would have came up during my travels. Just how amazing the comma can be. 1 2 3 for ( int i = 0, NSPoint p = [self updatingCell]; i < maxIterations && p.x > 0; i++, p = [self updatingCell] ) { // [...]

OtherInbox

 

What’s so surprising about this project is that it debuted so quickly after the launch of MobileMe and the popularization of the SproutCore framework. OtherInbox hopes to help reduce clutter in your digital life by eliminating spam, organizing receipts and your overall online life. Will be worth watching to see how it turns out. OtherInbox [...]

CocoaNav

 

Ever wanted a truly unique way of browsing through all the Cocoa classes? CocoaNav lets you visualize class relationships and hierarchy, as well as see just what methods are implemented where. Very very handy for those who are not familiar with the NS* family. Free and open source. Download Now for Leopard Only Web version [...]

Espresso from MacRabbit Software

 

There is something very exciting coming for web developers on the Mac late this fall and it’s from the same great company that gives us 2007 Apple Design Award winner, CSSEdit. MacRabbit has been hard at work giving us the same style, elegance, and usability that is offered in CSSEdit, but for HTML and more. [...]

iTunes 8 Album View Still Exists

 

With the Grid View being introduced in iTunes 8, all the buzz I’ve read on the net suggested that the previous Album List View was deprecated in this release. However, its still lurking in the shadows. In the iTunes toolbar, there are three buttons. From left to right: List View, Grid View, and Cover Flow [...]

“Let’s Rock” Event

 

With the updated iPod Touch, iTunes 8, addition of HD TV shows on iTunes and the return of NBC, the redesign of the Nano seems the most significant to me. The previous design, 3rd generation, were quite ugly I think.  Just the design as well as the colors.  However, the updated Nano is simply stunning [...]