Quickly create new Sticky notes

Macworld

Here are two ways to quickly create new notes from selected text or images in the Mac's venerable Stickies app.

iBooks Author owns your format, not your content

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

There's been a lot of heat and fury surrounding the iBooks Author terms and conditions ever since the service was introduced last week. To boil the controversy down to basics, Apple has introduced a private protocol extension that takes EPUB to the next…

Fantastical and language detection

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Since Fantastical is all about natural language processing, localization is an especially interesting issue. With most apps, localization means translating menus and labels into other languages and displaying the right translations based on a user’s…

iBooks Author: An ebook publisher looks at Apple's textbook creation app

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Erica Sadun and I are ebook publishers. Late last year, we started up an ebook publishing company -- Sand Dune Books -- and were fortunate to hit a publishing home run right off the bat with our book "Talking to Siri." Since we're familiar with…

Why Apple's products are 'Designed in California' but 'Assembled in China'

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Look at the back of your iPhone, or your iPad, or on the bottom of your Mac. You'll see the following words embossed somewhere: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." Many Americans, all the way up to the President himself, have…

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database

Wired 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.

Designing a Badge System

Planet Mozilla

xScope 3 out today, design tool adds mirroring and other new features

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

My non-TUAW job is in print journalism, where I spend my nights as a designer for a newspaper in central Pennsylvania. Part of that work involves being able to estimate, from the glance at a photo in InDesign or a paper dummy, how much of a story I can fit…

iBooks Author accounts are free, existing developers need a new account

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Setting up an account to publish books to the iBookstore has always been free, and the new iBooks Author tool has brought that fact into the spotlight. Self-publishing books to the iBookstore does still have a few hurdles you have to leap through, however.…

Core Data Queries Using Expressions

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Core Data can have a steep learning curve for anybody new to either the Mac or iOS platforms. One of the key points for me was understanding that Core Data is not a relational database but…