Apple has released a set of free E-Books for the Macintosh / Ios programmer in all of us. iOS Human Interface Guidelines Object Oriented Programming With Objective-C Cocoa Fundamentals Guide. The Objective-C Programming Language iOS Technology Overview iOS Application Programming Guide. While not super exciting for the non-programmer, it’s a great sign that Apple is […]
Netflix is one of the content providers for the Apple TV, streaming a growing library of old and new movies and TV shows to subscribers who are paying a minimum of US$7.99 per month for instant access. Now the LA Times is reporting that ABC’s parent, The Walt Disney Company, has reached a one-year agreement […]
TUAW’s Erica Sadun has put together an alpha version of a Mac OS X application known as “AirPlayer” that does exactly that. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate […]
If there ever was any proof that Apple needs to move the iPhone to other carriers, I believe we just found it. According to Consumer Reports, AT&T provides the worst Value, Service, and Consumer Support than any of the other major carriers… T-Mobile is even rated higher than AT&T. Does this really surprise the AT&T […]
Ever notice that a program that is supposed to startup at login doesn’t behave properly? It maybe has a permissions issue. Â Take a look at your console.log, and see if you see any launchctl related errors. For example: 11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Users/Ben/Library/LaunchAgents 11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious […]
On balance, however, I still prefer the iPad. For one thing, I like getting twice the screen size for a little more money up front—as little as $29 for the no-contract model with cellular capability. For another, the iPad has vastly more apps specifically designed for a tablet versus a smartphone—about 40,000 according to Apple, […]
Is there ANY legal and free way to run a Mac OS(virtual or not) on a machine I did not purchase from Apple? What about purchasing the parts separately and assembling them myself? Does that make it any more legal? The short answer, is No. The issue is that Apple’s End User License Agreement, prevents […]
Are you having an issue with Spotlight searches taking an extremely long time for any results to appear? Do you see anything similar in your console log? Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: ================= Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: ERROR: SKIndexTermChars pref returned nil string – using default Nov 7 11:52:01 Mac-Pro-2009 [0x0-0x25025].com.apple.Preview[374]: (/SourceCache/Preview/Preview-504.1/Sources/PVSearchKitUtils.m:161 PVCleanSKQuery) Nov […]