I love Apple’s MobileMe service – and the improvements that came to the Mail service last month were a huge step forward in the right direction, bringing features such as easy archiving, server side rules, vacation messages, and rich text formatting when composing messages on the web. Now that the update to the Mail service [...]
Apple traditionally gives out Apple Design Awards in several categories for Mac applications every year at WWDC, the Worldwide Developers Conference (running this week – keynote from Steve Jobs at 10am PST this morning). However, this year Apple did not have categories for Mac applications, only for iPhone. Therefore, the popular tech website Ars Technica [...]
With an overwhelming number of downloads this past week came a large pool of great TWSS jokes submitted from users, which is great! However, it became painfully apparent that the current system of moderation won’t hold up to such high usage, and as a user, you let me know this. Read more on the TWSS [...]
If you have not yet grabbed a copy of That’s What She Said Jokes for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad – now is the time! To celebrate over 225 jokes and the release of iPad version (available once apple approves the update), you can get TWSS Jokes for FREE until May 10th! Grab your copy [...]
Check out this awesome article reviewing the hot topic of the Apple developer TOS (Terms of Service), including some email correspondence between the article author and Steve Jobs. Read the article here.
Congratulations to Loren on his new position with the Twitter mobile team. He is taking Tweetie and turning it into Twitter.app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad as part of this new job. I was wondering what was going on when there wasn’t even a blog post saying when Tweetie for iPad would be available. I [...]
With Apple’s announcement of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, Apple slipped in a contractual change that is raising some hairs in the development community. Previously section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer contract prohibited using private APIs in your application. With the announcement of iPhone OS 4, Apple added wording prohibiting using third [...]
Pretty exciting news from the WebKit team: This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework “WebKit2″. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where [...]
Apple announced the immediate availablility of a developer preview of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, with plans to bring the update to iPhone 3G & 3GS and late model iPod Touch users “sometime this summer”, with the iPad lagging behind “sometime this fall”. The announcement hinged upon seven major features, with well [...]
Adam Engst gets it: So what’s the difference between a Mac and an iPad? It’s that blank slate thing. No matter what you do on a Mac, the keyboard and mouse and window-based operating system make it impossible to ignore the fact that you’re using a Mac, and it’s often equally impossible to ignore the [...]