Behind The App: Twitterrific 5

I’ve always loved shows that take you behind the scenes of creative efforts: Project Runway and Classic Albums being two of my favorites. Here’s one about the development of Twitterrific 5. Since a lot of the people reading this aren’t developers, I’m going to keep the jargon to a minimum. You’ll be able to enjoy […]

iTunes Manglement

I think we can all agree that iTunes is in need of a major overhaul. So why isn’t it happening? Apple has shown no fear of rethinking and innovating with the user interfaces that manage our own personal data. Both the iMovie and iPhoto apps are great examples of this: they’ve gotten much simpler to […]

VMware for developers

Many of us rely on VMware Fusion for testing our products both on older and newer versions of Mac OS X. Your development machine may be running Lion, but it’s incredibly handy to run both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion on the same machine. With the recent release of Mountain Lion DP2 some problems cropped […]

Sandboxing

The recent release of xScope 3.0 is our first product to use the new application sandbox that will soon become a requirement for submission to the Mac App Store. I’d like to share some experiences and advice on how to use it in your own products. First off, Ivan Krstić and the rest of the […]

Homebase

A lot of people I know and respect have been commenting on problems associated with the iPhone mute switch: John Gruber – On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch Andy Ihnatko – Unmuting on The Mute Question Marco Arment – Designing “Mute” Guy English – Mute This Both sides of the argument have valid […]