"One thing is for sure, Apple and Google haven’t left the carriers an exit, and that makes them dangerous. Also, I highly doubt Steve Jobs is going to leave the future of Apple up to the idiots at the telecom giants who have utterly failed to innovate. It will be an interesting soap opera for sure, stay tuned."

"However, 2010 is not like 1994. Apple has money, mindshare and the hottest platform to no longer having to beg. Today, Apple is more concerned about having to re-live its recent history — getting jerked around by Microsoft or held hostage by Adobe — than what it thinks would be manageable damage by a few developers that may leave its platform. Some may regard that as being arrogant. For Apple it’s the price of being in charge of its own destiny. To capitulate at the height of its newly found vigor would be suicidal. Suicidal Apple is no longer."

"It’s not an iPhone and it’s not a laptop: the iPad is a groundbreaking new device. You need to create true iPad apps to take advantage of all that is possible with the iPad. If you’re an experienced iPhone developer, iPad Programming will show you how to write these outstanding new apps while completely fitting your users’ expectation for this device.

Available in Beta April, 2010"

"As Microsoft, Apple, and Google go to war in mobile, search, and on the desktop, expect to see more of this cash deployed through acquisitions. (And one of these days, one of these companies may actually buy something big.)"

"I can understand why a retailer would want to use my copyright as bait to lock in readers—but exactly how is this good for me? This is why I'm not selling digital downloads of the professional readings of With a Little Help. With so much friction and goofiness in the marketplace, I'd rather give the MP3s away under a Creative Commons license and solicit donations through PayPal. My listeners don't want DRM. They want to get their books with a minimum of hassle. But, for the record, I'd put my books in Audible and the iTunes Store in a hot second if only they'd sell them on the same terms that I'd be willing to buy them: no DRM and no license agreement except “don't violate copyright law.”"

"You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country."

"The i7 even represents a sizable (35%) performance increase over the i5 model and costs only $200 more. In fact, the i7 iMac benchmarks compare favorably to 2.93Ghz Quad-Core Mac Pro which costs significantly more."

"As noted on that page, we urge you to do two things. First, be aware that Apple is acting as a gatekeeper, and preventing you from getting the software that developers such as ourselves are trying to provide you. We wanted to ship a simple bug fix, and it took almost four months of slow replies, delays, and dithering by Apple. All the while, our buggy, and supposedly infringing version, was still available. There’s no other word for that but “broken”."

"Create an image manipulation class that uses Core Image
Integrate this new class into attachment_fu, by writing a new attachment_fu processor module
Optionally, update attachment_fu’s automatic image processing list, or rely on using the :processor directive in our has_attachment model definitions."

"Chinese police are investigating the case, including whether or not Sun was brutalized. But the Chinese media and bloggers have surged to the case as a sign of workplace pressure gone awry. They have posted what they say is a Foxconn confidentiality and non-compete agreement, which promises fines for workers who break it. More fundamentally, they have enshrined the story of Sun Danyong as a bitter symbol of China’s industrial age."

"As everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects and so on."

"The Xquartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.org X Window System that runs on Mac OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5."

"The iPhone field mode shows a lot of information. In fact, it is more comprehensive than many other phone field modes, allowing you to see the details of the individual cell towers and a lot of detail about the cell phone network. To access it, dial *3001#12345#*. If you are already in a call, just hit "add call", enter the number above and hit call; the phone will go into test mode, but keep your call connected. "

"Traditionally deployment has been painful because it involves getting all the required software installed, configuring various moving parts, remembering to copy the right files at the right time, and so on. Leopard Server changes all that. In addition to Ruby and Rails, Leopard Server comes pre-installed with everything we need to deploy and run a production Rails application: Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, MySQL, Mongrel, Capistrano, and a few other unique goodies. Indeed, Leopard Server raises the bar when it comes to ease of Rails deployment."

Leopard Server docs

"Actually, I’ve just been informed that we recouped all of our hardware costs about fifteen minutes ago. And we made enough to buy every Mac user a pony."

And I couldn't care less, either.

via some bigot

Have used OM as my Keynote theme of choice for many years. Didn't know about the followup.

"The Quadra 700 could be upgraded to 68 megabytes of RAM, which with its 25 MHz processor made it a very useful computer for scientific or design work" One in my garage...

On the road to ad hoc p2p telephony. Just you watch

How far off is the ubiquitous computing primordium? Maybe a couple of weeks?

Been using Quicksilver for months; time to take it to the next level.

"Monkey-butt Linux running on my dot-matrix printer"