This is the question posed by MacHappens June 29th 2008
How long until Apple introduces the official Mac [u] App Store [/u].
[update: Answer - Two Years and Four Months. The Mac App Store is expected to launch late January 2010]
Users can Try and Buy Apps using iTunes' App Store, the most successful App storefront ever (iPhone App Store).
The latest edition of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) provides developers with a full development and publishing environment. Xcode 4.0 makes publishing Apps and App Updates as easy as one click.
I have linked to ...
Apple has a history of subtly introducing design elements in both software and hardware that eventually end up defining cutting edge industrial design.
AlSiO2 (not plastic) MacTouch please.
MacHappens . Tina Gasperson
1. How do you tackle a deadline?
I think it's more like the deadline tackles me. On rare occasion I will work on something well before it is due, but most of the time if it weren't for some kind of deadline I would probably just keep procrastinating forever. One of my main writing gigs for a long time has been Linux.com / Newsforge.com. They've never given me a deadline, so I made my own up just to keep myself straight. Besides, you don't get paid if you ...
MacHappens . Steven Troughton-Smith
1. How do you tackle a deadline?
In short - badly! Due to the pressures of university and the fact that I work alone most of the time, my time management is all over the place. I only have my leisure time in which to work, and must therefore struggle to motivate myself into getting the job done; if a project is getting awkward, I end up leaving it for a while to find something more cheery to do.
2. Give us a brief breakdown of your workflow on ...
MacHappens . Patrick Dinnen
1. How do you tackle a deadline?
Usually by procrastinating until achieving the project within the remaining time is nearly impossible. Then frightening myself with the near-impossibility of the deadline and killing myself getting it all done just in time.
2. Give us a brief breakdown of your workflow on a given project
My workflow varies a lot. Typically some scribbling on paper and then diving into computer code of one sort or another. Sometimes the code is replaced with electronic parts or cardboard, but a lot ...
MacHappens . Mike Lee
1. How do you tackle a deadline?
I work. Deadlines are just the motivation I need to sit down and buckle in until the work is done.
Leading a team is a different matter. Those projects are larger, and I've learned the hard way buckling in is not my best move.
My strategy as an engineering manager is to ensure my team has what they need to ...
MacHappens . Louie Mantia
1. How do you tackle a deadline?
I tackle deadlines the same as anyone else, it's all about priority management. I first need to find out exactly
what the client wants (when I can) and then start working on versions and checking up with them to make
sure they're satisfied along the way. Honestly, I wouldn't say I had too many deadlines in the past, the work
was generally open.
2. Give us a brief breakdown of your workflow on a given project.
First I'll receive the request from the client for work, and if taken, ...
Steven Troughton-Smith will be hitting us with a version update to his iPhone app Speed.
Here's a pre-release mockup "… A mere glimpse of Speed 2.0!"
It looks like a healthy upgrade to Speed version 1, available now at the App Store for $0.99.
Version 2 (when released) will be priced at $1.99, though if you purchase Speed now, you get free upgrades for life.
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I am fortunate enough to have had a chance to play with United Lemur's first iPhone app offering - Puzzllotto.
Nice interface and amazing soundtrack.
I want more. Can't wait.
Arahabaina!
MacHappens
P.S. http://twitter.com/unitedlemur
Purchased a rare 4GB silver nano for 1st iPod-ers Birthday gift.
It's gorgeous, and quite futuristic next to my old Gen 3 iPod.
Very impressed with the build quality and new features.
The 4GB nano was $30 cheaper than the 8GB model.
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After two hours of surgery, I have replaced the broken LCD panel in my MacBook.
The new screen from ScreenCountry.com produces a significantly better image than the stock Samsung panel.
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It was with a little hesitation that I installed Windows Vista (last week), and Windows XP (Right now... Just off the phone with India actually) on my development MacBook using VMWare Fusion.
I get to try out Chrome, install an anti-virus program again (oh the memories), and try hard not to compare both OS's to modern Linux and Mac distros.
Is it worth it, just to test apps across multiple OS's? I just gave the Evil Empire a Flintstones® vitamin.
It's interesting to see how MicroSoft has evolved their flagship.
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I simply love the execution of this browser. It comes across as straight forward, uses as few preferences as necessary, and is Open Source. Even if it is a means for Google to make (literally) a tone more money.
It's a little choppy right now, though I won't blame that on the app until I try it on Linux or Mac.
Will it become my default browser?
Updates:
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Ugly iWeb slideshow controls
Apple or Google's fault? Webstandards? Proprietary?
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After searching long and hard (google did all the work), and bypassing the DIY route, I found the TC2 portable iPod charger.
It uses two "AA" batteries and works beautifully with my new iPhone.
Finally, a use for the twenty NiMH batteries I have left over from my old digital camera.
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Once upon a time I coveted piles of books, and literally tones of collectables.
I have to admit that my collecting days are over.
Don't get me wrong. I love books and most tangible media, but part of my lower impact aspirations include not collecting more "Stuff".
Gadgets? They don't count as stuff do they? Hypocritically speaking.
Missing the point.
Cool iPhone App = eReader
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Pennies iPhone / iPod touch app.
$4.20 heh.
(update) AppZapper 2 link confirms Austin(+) as "a knife."
"version two. design by a knife."
(update2) Pennies is now available on the iTunes App Store
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According to Apple, one can use a MacBook Pro 85W MagSafe Power Adapter with an ordinary MacBook. The MacBook Pro adapter is only slightly larger, with lower gauge wire (larger), the capacity of powering either MacBooks, and is exactly the same price as its 65W sibling.
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Due to limited availability, Canadian telecom giant Rogers' iPhone 3G sales totaled only 30,000 during the first week of availability with the majority of sales made on the launch day July 11th, according to a source inside Rogers.
No word on Fido sales figures.
MacHappens
How long until Apple introduces the official Mac App Store.
Users can Try and Buy Apps using iTunes' App Store, the most successful App storefront ever (iPhone App Store).
The latest edition of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) provides developers with a full development and publishing environment. Xcode 4.0 makes publishing Apps and App Updates as easy as one click.
I have linked to Wil Shipleys venture Golden-Braeburn.com recently, and while I see a very successful niche for him, I'm sure a large section of the development community will drink the Cupertino KoolAid.
Apple ...
The Mac (a folding tablet, and an addition to the Apple Al SiO2ification series) uses Apples modern design and Multi-Touch technologies to bring a vision of the 1987 Knowlege Navigator concept to life.
Aluminum and glass construction
OLED display (video/photo capture capable)
Apple Knowlege Navigator Concept Video
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Will Shipley has created a promising app delivery service called Golden % Braeburn, and is offering it up to the world.
Put your wares in front of a larger audience, at a lower cost, with hardcode integrated assets.
Details Here.
MacHappens
After reading this tuaw article's comments, I was informed about logmein, a remote desktop webapp. Works great, it's free, and it can turn your iPhone into a mobile desktop computer. Slow = yes.
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Wil Shipley (of Delicious Monster) has announced a public beta of Delicious Library 2 via tuaw. As per the tuaw blog comments, the beta has been launched to test the integrated store. Talk about priorities. Check it out.
Here's a great spoke Wil gave at the C4[1] confrence. The subject is The Creation & Maintenance of Hype....
Woke up to a plugged in, battery drained MacBook.
I had read about defective MagSafe power adapters, though this was my first contact with one.
The end that connects to the computer had started to fray, and became very hot when an intermittent connection was made.
After the long wait until Apple tech support woke up, I was instructed to buy a new power brick.
Two months after my first year of MacBook ownership lapsed, and not feeling like whining or forking over $79.00, I decided to repair my scorched adapter.
Off to Google and found a ...
"creating great products and services for an uncertain world"
Subject To Change is a book by Peter Merholz, Brandon Schauer, David Verba, and Todd Wilkens of adaptive path (a great experience company).
I discovered the existence of this venture while skimming the ap website looking for a some posts on Charmr: "A Design Concept for Diabetes Management Devices" for a friend of mine.
Just started reading it though I was captivated by the preview chapter....
An email (including the image below) perks my interest.. as was intended.
WWDC 2008 "A landmark event. In more ways than one... Everything Mac. Everything iPhone. San Francisco, June 9-13, 2008."
This leads me to think that either a divergence or synergy is about to happen. Apple, a long proponent of single devices for single purposes, seems to be swaying the way of convergence lately.
I for one think a tablet would be cool, though I'm really in the mood for a Mac version of ...
This inclusion in the Al SiO2 series, isn't even an existing Apple Product. While it does look exactly like a Photoshoped iPod touch...., in distorted reality it is so much more.After a fruitless search for a mobile, streamlined way to extend the storage capacity of the iPhone and iPod touch (without nand soldering or time travel skills), the *Apple Stream concept is born.The Apple Stream is a mobile WiFi content server, the same size as the iPod touch....
The renovated QuickTime.
While QuickTime is not a physical product like a Mac or an iPod, I can not think of any Apple software more deserving of Al SiO2ificationDownload Aluminum and Glass QuickTime Mac OS X Leopard ready alternate icon.
via MacHappens
Google is doing its part in the open source mobile phone revolution with Android™ and the open handset alliance.Android™ is an mobile handset platform delivered under the Apache version 2.0 open source license.Google isn't the first to try for an open mobile handset platform, though it sure has some weight to throw around with the members of the handset alliance.OpenMoko was introduced as an open mobile phone platform in 2006 by FIC (First International ...
Some more gorgeous artwork from graphics artist and interface designer Adam Betts.A pair of Apple Mac OS X Leopard inspired desktop backgrounds: “CONQUER THE UNIVERSE”Two versions make up one large galaxy background image for use with a dual display system.MacHappens
AppleInsider.com has recently treated us to a great series of articles under the name Road to Mac OS X Leopardwhich has been followed up with the Introductory Mac OS X Leopard ReviewsMacHappens
Looks like this house could get a little crowded.Apples AirPort Extreme vs. Bang & Olufsens BeoLink website graphics.Imitation really is the sincerest form of imitation.MacHappens
Many have been eagerly awaiting the emergence of affordable, high capacity Flash drives on the market.Enter the Samsung SSD (Solid State Drive) series of Flash drives.Samsung has posted a video revealing some impressive specs and vs. HDD benchmarks.Low capacity Flash thumb drives have been affordable for some time. They are very useful for usbooting a Linux OS, or transferring files. That said, some of us simply want more room to move, and a speed increase to boot.While Samsung has been shipping similar flash and hybrid-flash drives for some time now, it finally looks like they're ready to enter the mainstream with the slick SSD series.My future solid state MacBook...Apple has a history of packing innovations like this into their Macs, though usually with a gradual phase-in, and/or a premium price tag.Update: Check out Ryan Blocks Samsung 64GB SSD transplanted MacBook Pro here.MacHappens
Before heading off for paternity leave (Congrats!!), 43 Folders founder Merlin Mann posed a Geek Throwdown: How to sync two or more Macs?"Sync" in the sense that every file, app, and system preference is the same on each mac.Until someone writes a Time Machine sync app, I (as well as a few commenters) figure the best way is to boot off an external firewire drive that you move between machines. Portable drives are getting faster, smaller, and cheeper. For a little hassle, you can sync without syncing.I love The Throwdown idea. Many people working to resolve a common problem.MacHappens
Apple has officially launched its own list of web apps.In fact they have also re-written the definition of web apps."Since web apps are websites designed specifically for the 3.5-inch screen..."MacHappens
The MacBook/MacBook Pro is the second Apple productto be Al SiO2ized.Click image to view larger.Black anodized aluminumGlass displayFlip down hidden connectorsBuilt-in WiMaxvia MacHappens
How would every Apple product lookafter getting the Al SiO2 treatment.
First up Apples cinema display.Black anodized aluminumGlass displayIntegrated iSightIntegrated Apple Remote receiver(bringing front row to every mac)via MacHappens
Many people have been left wanting with apples unveil of the apps included with new its iPod Touch.
Specifically those outside the United States who have been pining for the iPhone.
Enter "Hack the iPod Touch" a site dedicated to bringing the omitted iPhone apps to your internationally available iPod Touch (once it's internationally available that is).
via hacktheipodtouch
AddFone.com is a website created by Magno Urbano to help people search for and find apps for their iPhones.The sites interface is perfectly suited to the iPhones screen.(yet another site serving us the iPhone sized internet). via addfone
" Aluminium Apple Keyboard: Special features " Posted by Marc Edwards on islayer.com reveals some of the little known, built in features of Apples new thinner aluminum/aluminium keyboard.
via islayer
Here is a link to the recently updated "Essential Mac OS X Apps" page on Mac Specialist.org.While I know and have used many of the apps mentioned, I have only kept the following. Carbon Copy Cloner - Easy-to-use backup/cloning utilityDelicious Library - Catalogue your books, cd's, games, dvd'sFirefox - Open source web browseriPodDisk - Utilize your iPod as an iDiskLittle Snitch - Alerts you of outgoing network connections!!! Quicksilver !!! - Application launcher and much moreTransmit - FTP clientVLC - Play DivX encoded movies (and more).via macspecialist
