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Feb 16 2010

GUI as Interpretive Dance: Oblong/g-speak

Maybe one day I’ll be cool enough to get a TED invite and i can see stuff like Oblong’s demo of their g-speak interface.
As eye candy this is wickedly cool, and, naturally since its developed by the guy who did the design of the imagined interface for Speilberg’s Minority Report, everyone thinks it’s [...]

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Jan 06 2010

MacIndie.com – Our New New Thing…

Well, the cats been out of the bag for a few weeks, but I completely forgot to blog here about one of my new projects: MacIndie.
MacIndie is a resource for Indie Mac andiPhone developers: our goal is to provide Indie Devs with a lot of resources and info ranging from a catalog of free and [...]

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Aug 30 2009

An “iTunes Moment?” More than whiff of desperation…

The Guardian has an interesting piece about Microsoft UK’s media chief Ashley Highfield who was apparently spreading FUD at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival at which he warned TV executives that within two years they will face an “iTunes moment” and “hand control” of their businesses over to Apple. Desperate much, Ahsley?
It’s classic [...]

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Apr 02 2009

iPhone Dev Tips: Renewed Cert Requires Updated Provisioning Files

From the department of “What should be really obvious” but isn’t….

If your Apple iPhone development certificate expires you not only need to get a new one, but you MUST regenerate all your MobileProvision files.
Unfortunately Apple doesn’t mention this anywhere obvious on the Developer Portal, and to make things more interesting, your old and [...]

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Jun 05 2008

Who is Gary Krakow? Why is he off his meds?

TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to “bite the bullet” and “license WindowsMobile or RIM’s Blackberry” code.
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help. Like now. I mean he’s either had a break, or he’s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]

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Jan 23 2008

Patently Insane

Published byDavid HM Spector under Apple, Technology

Here we go again… yet another Patent Troll is going after someone — in this case Apple — for something that so obvious and in fact generic, you’d have to have to be from some other planet not to see that it’s not patentable.
At issue is something known as the “783″ patent, US Patent #7,321,783, [...]

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Dec 03 2007

AT&T’s CEO: Idiot or Genius? You be the judge…

Published byDavid HM Spector under Apple

Quite a big deal has been made of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s diarrhea of the mouth this past week where he more or less pre-announced a 3G iPhone coming in 2008 from Apple.  Cringely esitmates that this may well cost Apple over $1 billion in holiday sales, and that this was a calculated effort on the [...]

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Oct 29 2007

OS X Leopard vs Java 6: Everyone Calm Down!

Published byDavid HM Spector under Apple, Java, OS X

[update: Of course,  the author of this excellent bit of analysis is Eric BURKE ..not "Burns" {/me blushes; looks at ground, fidgets nervously} Oy-vey. Major briano on my part ... must have been channeling an old friend of mine who is, in fact, named Eric Burns. My Apologies to this Eric!! [...]

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Oct 22 2007

Tick… tick… tick… 96 hours until Leopard….

Published byDavid HM Spector under Apple, OS X

In just a little under 96 hours, Apple will loose OS X v 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard” on the world. As a long time devotée of Apple’s stuff (I was writing software professionally back on my Apple ][ in high-school) I think this is the most exciting release yet.
Apple posted a very nice “guided [...]

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Oct 10 2007

Disney to Kids with Macs: DROP DEAD!

So, my 7 yr old daughter surfed on over to Disney this evening after finsihing her homework to play a few games.    No matter what game she tried to play she got a “redirect” message (see below – talk about your poor site design), and then a notice that the game she selected (and it [...]

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