Lack of receipt checking could enable Mac App Store piracy

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Not long after the Mac App Store opened, several warnings via Twitter began to surface. "You did implement receipt checking so that people can't pirate your app. Yes?" developer Nik Fletcher (also one of our former writers here at TUAW) asked his…

6 January 2011

It's Clippy! Back as a Mac App Store utility

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

It may not be Microsoft Bob, but boy am I happy that I installed Clippy (US$0.99 in the Mac App Store) on my Mac. No, Clippy isn't that annoying "It looks like you are writing a letter" implementation from years past, but something far more helpful. …

6 January 2011

How to develop a HTML5 Image Uploader

Planet Mozilla

HTML5 comes with a set of really awesome APIs. If you combine these APIs with the element, you could create a super/modern/awesome Image Uploader. This article shows you how. All these tips work well in Firefox 4. I also describe some alternative ways to…

5 January 2011

Steve Jobs portrait made out of Apple products mosaic

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

As reported by MacStories and created for Italian magazine Panorama by Tsevis Visual Design, this picture of Apple CEO Steve Jobs is entirely made up of Apple's white products laid out to create a visually arresting portrait. The creative director of the…

4 January 2011

Ian Wienand: easygeotag.info

Planet Debian

I think I've just about finished my Thanksgiving project easygeotag.info. I'm a little bit obsessive about geotagging my photos and while I know there are many photo management solutions out there that can do it in various ways, I generally find it…

3 January 2011

Stéphane Graber: Getting ready for IPV6

Planet Ubuntu

I’ve been regularly playing with IPV6 since mid-2006 when I first opened an account at SixXS ang got my first IPV6 tunnel up and running. Sadly at that point, there wasn’t much Point of Presence for tunnels, not even mentioning the state of native IPV6…

31 December 2010

Creating iPhone Ad Hoc Distribution builds

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Each time I need to create a build for a beta tester I find myself hunting around for my notes on how to create and distribute an Ad Hoc build. So here, once and for all, are my notes on…

23 December 2010

DVDs are playing back on my Apple TV using AirFlick and AirPlay!

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The Unicorn has landed! Rainbows! Starshine! Skittle poo! It's like Christmas in...um...December! So why this exuberance and excitement? My Apple TV is right now, this very second, even as we speak, playing back a DVD of Finding Nemo. It's seriously…

22 December 2010