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Joe Hewitt

Joe Hewitt, creator of the iPhone Facebook application and Three20 framework, has moved back to web development. A blog post explains, placing on Apple’s App Store process without using so many words. But he makes an observation on how little … Continue reading

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Rogue Amoeba no longer developing new iPhone applications

Rogue Amoeba no longer has any plans for additional iPhone applications, following an egregious Apple rejection.

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Loren Brichter on Tweetie reload

Joshua Kaufman interviews Loren Brichter on Tweetie’s reload gesture. A good, non-technical read on finding the right way to present a feature, adding a custom gesture, and providing feedback.

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Memory and thread-safe custom property methods

Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Memory and thread-safe custom property methods

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Ars Technica on Snow Leopard

John Siracusa: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. Includes a discussion of some of the file system’s new tricks and QuickTime X’s secrets, which you’ll probably never need to know. But don’t you want to know?

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Snow Leopard is built for the future

Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster): Snow Leopard is built for the future. A short overview of what Snow Leopard’s new technologies mean from an application developer’s perspective.

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Adding shadow effects to UITableView using CAGradientLayer

Matt Gallagher (Cocoa with Love): Adding shadow effects to UITableView using CAGradientLayer. Non-obvious and useful.

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On heuristics and human factors

Wil Shipley (Delicious Library): On Heuristics and Human Factors. This is a big part of what separates great applications from the rest.

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Installing MySQL on Mac OS X

Hivelogic: Installing MySQL on Mac OS X (from source). Useful if you can’t use a prebuilt package for some reason. (Remember to adjust the instructions for the latest version instead of 5.1.33.)

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Password Changes in Open Directory

John C. Welch (aka Bynkii, Angry Mac Bastard): Password Changes in Open Directory (One burst of profanity). For us Mac users who are sometimes a little too smug about the Mac’s user interface. (The podcast: Angry Mac Bastards. Extreme profanity … Continue reading

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