TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
LED notifications -- the flashing reminders of incoming calls, waiting voicemail or text messages -- are often cited by Android users as an essential advantage over the iPhone. A dedicated LED on the front bezel of many Android devices lets you know when…
23 July 2012MySQL Performance Blog
The threat of SQL injection has appeared prominently in the news recently: SQL injection was documented as a security threat in 1998, but new incidents still occur every month. Making honest mistakes, developers fail to defend against this means of…
19 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A new video was recently released by Apple for recruiting purposes, but perhaps most interesting for us, it is a quick glimpse inside the company's culture. Yes, it's an official video, so things don't get down and dirty at all, but there are definitely…
17 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A trip to the doctor's office usually means one thing -- filling out one form or another. For patients, it's a necessary evil; for health care practitioners, it's a requirement. Longtime Apple developer MacPractice announced today that it has released new…
12 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Oliver Drobnik over at Cocoanetics has posted another really great how-to write-up, this time about Xcode and command-line tools. He shows you how to access apps from inside the Xcode bundle by using xcrun, and how to set your default Xcode install (via…
12 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Are you enthusiastic about Apple's Keynote app for the Mac and wonder what new features Apple may roll into a future version of the App? If you answered yes, then you need to check out this post from Les Posen that was noticed by MacSparky. The…
11 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Facebook has announced a the availability of iOS SDK Beta 3.0. It's a major update for developers and includes goodies like: * Better user session management * Ready-to-Use Native UI Views * Modern Objective-C language features support * Improved…
11 July 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
After months of testing, the team behind the latest version of the extremely popular Cocos2D game engine for iOS has released version 2.0 of the framework, and it's available for download right now. The framework isn't completely compatible with version…
10 July 2012MacOSXHints.com
Mac OS X now has a very basic, built-in font sampler, at least as of 10.7.3. If you don't care about having customized sample text, Font Book can do it without any add-ons. Select the desired fonts in Font Book, choose Print from the File menu, and choose…
10 July 2012Slashdot
mikejuk writes "Although the TIOBE Index has its shortcomings, the finding that Objective-C has overtaken C++ is reiterated in the open source Transparent Language Popularity Index. The reason is, of course, that Objective-C is the language you have to…
9 July 2012