Archive for the 'Apple' Category
Friday, March 24th, 2006
This post is part of the MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! Since I first wrote […]
Posted in Apple, Hacking, Intel, MacBook Pro, Programming, Usability | 148 Comments »
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
A much-overlooked perk of Mac OS X’s BSD underpinnings is the presence of full-fledged support for NFS (network file system) in every shipping version of the operating system. This support serves as the underlying technology for the “Network Domain,” the fourth member of a family of directory hierarchies that also includes the System, Local, and […]
Posted in Apple, Darwin, Hacking, Technology, Usability | 28 Comments »
Monday, March 13th, 2006
This post is part of the MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! I’m the (mostly) happy […]
Posted in Apple, Intel, MacBook Pro, Programming, Usability | 80 Comments »
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Apple’s documentation team just keeps getting better and better. Not only is the writing clearer and more connected to real-world applications than it has been in the past, the team seems to be getting prolific! Today they dropped a huge update on their site, including a bunch of brand new titles. The completely new documents: […]
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, Programming, Xcode | 9 Comments »