Sometimes it takes awhile to fulfill a promise.
One such pledge was made last century to my good friend Jeffrey (he was only a prince at the time.) I said that I’d love to write something for his fledgling mailing list: A List Apart. This past month, I finally got around to writing that piece: Put [...]
The iPhone technical specifications mention nothing about how much RAM is included nor how fast the CPU is running. Now that I have a toolchain, it was a simple task to take some code from iPulse to investigate.
Note: Apple has obviously not documented the system level APIs that I’m using to extract this information, so [...]
There are two things that I really want on my iPhone: Twitterrific and Frenzic. Last week I started taking care of the first one and am happy to announce a proof-of-concept.
Don’t expect much in terms of usability or elegance. The application only initiates a network connection to Twitter, downloads a timeline feed as XML, and [...]
It’s no secret that I’ve started hacking on my iPhone.
And what’s the most frequent thing I use in development? SSH2 to copy new builds onto the phone and view NSLog output from the shell.
And is it a pain to enter your password every frickin’ time? And is it slow to connect? Yes and HELL yes.
But [...]
Just how fast is the iPhone?
Let’s run some benchmarks comparing the iPhone to my iMac running Safari 3 on a 1.83 Ghz Intel Core Duo processor:
Test
iMac
iPhone
Slower by
100,000 iterations
0.041 secs.
3.209 secs.
78x
10,000 divisions
0.005
0.413
82x
10,000 sin(x) calls
0.009
0.709
79x
10,000 string allocations
0.010
0.777
78x
10,000 function calls
0.010
0.904
90x
This means that Javascript on the iPhone will take about 80 times longer to run than it does on [...]
If the changes to the Leopard Dock are a good idea, shouldn’t Apple go all the way and do the same thing to the Finder? And then applications, too! Hell, I can totally see these windows flying around with Spaces and Exposé and Core OMFG!
Forget about October, I’m stoked about 10.6! Let’s hope they add [...]
Yeah, I see a lot of icons in my business. I often get asked what makes for a successful desktop icon. And I’ve answered many times—but never in public. This essay also gives me a chance to write about something other than the iPhone :-)
Let me begin with this disclaimer: this discussion is directed at [...]