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At Forbes.com, Morgan Brennan reports on the new 8000-square foot Savant Experience Center, a typical “swanky” Manhattan apartment with one special difference — it’s automated with Apple technology. Brennan writes that nearly every feature of the multi…
1 September 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
People toss around the term "fanboy" to the point where it means almost nothing, but if you're looking for a real fan of Apple's retail store aesthetic, check out David Wu's home office. Not only did he have a replica of the Apple Store's iconic Fetzers…
30 August 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
29 August 2012MySQL Performance Blog
Spoiler alert: If your boss does not need an elephant, he is definitely NOT going to buy one from you. If he will, he will regret it and eventually you will too. I must appologize to the reader who was expecting to find an advice on selling useless goods…
28 August 2012inessential.com
In Glassboard 2.2 for iPhone (released yesterday) I used a technique for reducing startup time that is worth writing up. THE THREE PHASES OF STARTUP A table-based, data-driven app like Glassboard goes through three states: 1. Loading. System loads the…
24 August 2012Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, In a previous post I examined how with iOS 5 it became much easier to customise the appearance of some common UIKit controls using resizable images. In this post I want to go a little…
24 August 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Several weeks ago, a developer sent a video as part of his TUAW product pitch. The app itself was interesting enough but I was blown away by the video's music. It was smart, it was contemporary, and it had excellent production values. So I started to…
24 August 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
To be sure, I think OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is the best OS Apple has ever released. It feels like a completed version of what Mac OS X 10.7 Lion should have been. It's fast, it's clean, it melds some iOS concepts to OS X and, for the most part, it just…
18 August 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
Thought you received a text from your beloved ex wanting to get back together? It could be one of your friends pranking you, at least if you use an iPhone. An iOS "hacker" going by pod2g is drawing fresh attention to a long-extant SMS spoofing flaw…
17 August 2012Macworld
The Save dialog for apps that support OS X 10.8's Documents in the Cloud feature makes iCloud the default location for saving a new document. And Ted Landau found that you can't change the default folder location.
17 August 2012