Don’t call it “open source” unless you mean it

Planet Mozilla

⚡️Don’t call it “open source” unless you mean it In terms of releasing code into the wild we live in terribly exciting times. Products like GitHub, Dropbox, online collaboration tools like JSFiddle, JSBin, Codepen and Dabblet make it very easy to show our…

22 October 2012

One month in, iOS 6's Passbook barely passes go

Macworld

In just four short weeks, iOS 6’s Passbook feature has totally revolutionized the life of you, me, and everybody we know. Okay, not so much “revolutionized” as “very mildly altered, maybe.” One of the marquee features of iOS 6, Passbook is Apple’s attempt…

22 October 2012

Share Reminders lists via iCloud web site

MacOSXHints.com

You can now share lists of reminders from the iCloud web site (not individual reminders, however). To do this, hover your cursor over on a list in the left-hand column of the Reminders interface, then click in the little round sharing icon that displays at…

22 October 2012

Joseph Wain designs near-ubiquitous iOS icons

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Chances are very good that almost any iOS app you use contains icons that were designed by one man -- Joseph Wain. Wain doesn't work for Apple and never has. Instead, he's a designer who was impressed at an early age by the work of seminal Apple and NeXT…

19 October 2012

Create a music video with iMovie '11

Macworld

Perhaps you or a musician friend have a song, and you need a music video to help promote it and your band. Or maybe your son or daughter wants to create a video for a song they wrote and recorded. The good news is, you don’t need a mega-budget: just some…

19 October 2012

See details of an app's virtual size

MacOSXHints.com

If you use top in Terminal, you may occasionally see apps with huge VSIZE values. I know this because Witch, one of our apps, is an example of such—it's VSIZE can exceed 11GB. In trying to figure out why this was so (short answer seems to be: we can't…

19 October 2012

Making of Pinbook

inessential.com

Collin Donnell writes about the design, aesthetics, and engineering of his new iPhone app Pinbook, a Pinboard client. It should be a requirement that every new app gets a blog post like this.

18 October 2012