New iPods and free ponies for all

Macworld covers an Apple special event on September 1st. But their predictions hedge bets, offering a “good chance” of something more substantial than just new iPods.

A one day project

I started work today on an iPhone project with a friend. I figured it would take only a day to get to a reasonable 1.0. I’ve only put in about a half day on it so far, but at this point I’m pretty sure it’s actually a two day project.

The secret to enjoying Xcode

One of the things that made me like Xcode more and become more efficient with it is realizing that while all coders are insane, me and Xcode’s designers are insane in different ways.

iTunes zoom behavior

iTunes prior to 9.0 used a click on the zoom widget to convert to the mini player, leaving people like me who actually like to zoom a window option-clicking it.

On skins and plugins

I started this post over six months ago, but never quite got around to finishing it. It might never be finished. But this is a thorn to me, so I’m just going to post it as is. Should your new application support skins?

Xcode and iPhone OS 3.0.1

To get Xcode 3.1.3 working with iPhone OS 3.0.1, you’ll need to teach Xcode how to target iPhone OS 3.0.1. Xcode will automatically recognize iPhone OS 3.0.1 and look for a new SDK at a set path. The problem is that SDK doesn’t exist. The good part is that the iPhone OS 3.0 SDK works… Continue reading Xcode and iPhone OS 3.0.1

Macworld Keynote

A few thoughts, based on watching the keynote via QuickTime: Phil Schiller was great. He seemed to be a little nervous in his delivery, but he was interesting in a casual, friendly way. If he has a chance to do some of Apple’s special events in the future, he’ll be a little less awkward.