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Posted
12 March 2008 @ 12pm

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Featured Comment: InfoWeek’s Response

I thought this one was too important to leave in the comments on my piece about Alexander Wolfe’s cynical and lazy blogging on the iPhone SDK.
David Dugan took the trouble to make a complaint to InfoWeek about the article. The full response is in his comment at the above link, but here’s a little dissection:
Alex [...]


Late Night ImageKit

Bit late on this one, but an episode of Late Night Cocoa was recently published featuring me talking about Image Kit on Leopard.


Bampot of the Week: Alexander Wolfe

John Gruber has his occasional Jackass Of The Week award, for which Rob Enderle seems to be in line for a lifetime achievement award. I needed a more Scottish equivalent, so here is my Bampot1 of the week: Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe, for his overblown and incorrect piece about the iPhone SDK entitled “iPhone [...]


Posted
6 March 2008 @ 4pm

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An analogy for RAM and HDD space

I doubt doubt many readers of this blog will struggle with confusing RAM capacity and Hard Disk capacity. Regardless, I offer this analogy that I use to explain the difference to my less-technical friends in the hope that it will help your less-technical friends understand it:

Think of RAM as your physical wooden-or-formica desktop. It has [...]


Xcode: Unit Testing Built Products

Just wanted to share a little trick I recently developed for Xcode. I had a problem with FlickrExport 3: the Info.plist file was not being regenerated correctly when I built the target without cleaning it first. This problem only came to light when I started using preprocessing in the Info.plist to fill in the [...]


Posted
1 March 2008 @ 6pm

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Tech

ScreenFlow: The iTunes of Screencasting

I come to praise an application that puts a smile on my face every time I use it: ScreenFlow by Vara Software. ScreenFlow is an application for recording video from your computer screen and exporting it as a video file for sharing online.
I’m calling it The iTunes of Screencasting, not because it looks like [...]


Personal Shopping for a MacBook Air at the Apple Store

I’m writing this on the train on the way back from a personal shopping session at the Apple Store. I specifically went there to get some time on a MacBook Air, and it was really worthwhile to do so. They lent me a staff member for an hour to talk me through some stuff about [...]


MacBook Air: 10-second review

So I actually handled a MacBook Air today. I didn’t buy it, even though I had cleared with my wife that I would be permitted to live, should I bring one home. These thoughts are really more worthy of Twitter, but I couldn’t get it into 140 characters.
Firstly, as expected, the experience of having [...]


Aperture 2: Did I Get My Wishes?

A while ago, I blogged about my wish-list for Aperture 2. Now that we have the update, I thought I would take a look back:
GPS Metadata Editing
Still waiting for this one!
Ability to lock versions
Nope!
Comments field on Projects
Nope!
Better Handling of externally processed RAW Files
It appears that nothing has changed here since 1.5.
Allow the use of Adobe [...]


Aperture 2: Migrating to RAW 2.0

I’ve migrated my entire library to Aperture 2, but I’m going to be a bit more careful about migrating to the new RAW 2.0 decoder, particularly with my best images. Here’s my plan of action:
I decided that I was happy to migrate en masse images with no adjustments. Fortunately, Aperture makes this easy. [...]


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