Archive for September, 2008

Cut and Paste in iPhone 2.2 – A Reinvention of the Concept

Wired on Cut and Paste in the iPhone 2.2:
It’s possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can [...]

Delicious Client for iPhone, iPod Touch

iPhone Central gives the heads up on a new Del.icio.us client for the iPhone. Del.icio.us is hands down my favorite for saving bookmarks – I don’t ever save anything locally (on my computer). Red Delicious looks really promising! Still 1~3 weeks of shipping time for an iTouch here in Korea…

Hockenberry – Apple is Killing Enthusiasm Among iPhone Developers

Craig Hockenberry, main developer of xScope and Twitterific, trashes the Apple’s NDA and application approval process. This is a big stick.

Negative Discourse Accumulating – Dan Moren on Apple’s NDA

Dan Moren from iPhone Central on Apple’s Non-disclosure ‘Agreement’ with iPhone developers:
There may very well be a good reason for the NDA to remain in place—but that shouldn’t prohibit Apple from explaining that reason to its developers. All it takes is for Apple to be a little more forthcoming to begin to undo the damage [...]

Soon! Espresso – XHTML, JavaScript and CSS Editor from MacRabbit

Espresso, an all-in-one XHTML, JavaScript and CSS editor (along the lines of Panic’s Coda) from MacRabbit is set to launch this November. I can say that I’m extremely excited about this application. I’ve tried to warm up to Coda two times now, both times ending in a broken heart. Something about it [...]

Snell of Macworld on the App Store

Macworld’s Jason Snell on the App Store. Condensed version:

Set transparent guildlines for what will and will not make it into the App Store
Publish every (non-malicious) app and let the market decide

This basically is an echo of Wil Shipley’s article. However, I’m hoping that Snell’s journalistic cred will quicken the process whereby Apple wakes [...]

Free Market App Store

Wil Shipley, the lead developer behind Delicious Library, offers his thoughts on the state of the iPhone App Store. Shipley’s thesis boils down to this: Apple should allow any and every app into the App store that isn’t explicitly harmful to users and drop all the ‘quality control’ affectations. He supports this claim [...]

Command + ‘=’ in Dashboard to bring up Widget Panel

If you want to change which widgets are displayed in your dashboard, you just click the ‘+’ symbol in the bottom left corner to bring up a panel of your available widgets. But you can also bring it up by hitting Cmd + ‘=’ – which I discovered by accident by means of a [...]

Protect Your Passwords

Macworld with some good advice on password security. Common sense!

Lifting of the NDA Will Never Come

Red Sweater Blog: “Perhaps the darkest angle of our ongoing wait for the lifting of Apple’s iPhone NDA, is that we seem to be “waiting for Godot.” The parallels to the fabled character are pretty weak, but I can’t help but think myself a fool when I observe that I, along with countless others, [...]