TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Apple's announcement of Thunderbolt on Feb 24th was greeted by excitement, as Mac users became aware of the tantalising possibilities of this new high-speed port. There's lots of things Thunderbolt can do that were simply not possible before -- driving…
11 December 2011inessential.com
Our friends at Double Encore have released the DE Tweet Sheet — an iOS-4-compatible version of TWTweetComposeViewController.
10 December 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Zite is probably the most-used app on my iPad. I love the way it crawls hundreds of thousands of news sites for the stories I am going to find interesting. It's a bit like Pandora for news, and I can give any story a thumbs up or thumbs down while the app…
9 December 2011Planet Mozilla
In a closely tracked world of tasks and deliverables, people know what to do, and do it. Fortunately, humans are also social beings, which means there’s a whole lot more to the work we do than checklists and achievements.People need contact. They need…
9 December 2011Macworld
Macworld senior editor Dan Frakes takes a look at the lesser-known screenshot features of Mac OS X.
8 December 2011MySQL Performance Blog
One of the more common questions I get asked is which Linux distribution I would use for a MySQL database server. Bearing the responsibility for someone else’s success means I should advise something that is stable, reliable, easy to manage and has plenty…
8 December 2011Macworld
Did you know you can copy and paste a whole lot more than just text and graphics? When you start in the Finder, you can use the Copy command to lift all sorts of information from a selected Finder item. Here are some of Sharon Zardetto's favorite tricks.
7 December 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A while back, designer Jake Marsh commented on an inconsistency in Apple's use of linen textures in iOS 5 (hat tip to Daring Fireball). In both OS X Lion and iOS 5, the linen texture is "underneath" other UI elements in almost every instance. In Lion,…
6 December 2011inessential.com
Pat Dryburgh made an updated version of my Ballard stylesheet that makes it so images don’t extend beyond the content column. Good thinking. (It’s not a problem I run into, since I almost always run NetNewsWire on a large display. But if you’re using a…
5 December 2011Slashdot
Michael J. Ross writes "Web designers and developers alike are increasingly enthused about the capabilities offered by HTML5, which is generally considered the combination of the latest version of the Web's primary markup language and its related…
5 December 2011