One of the challenges existing Mac developers face with the Mac App Store (MAS) is whatever copy protection you have been using up until now has to be thrown out in favor of a protection scheme based on Apple’s App Store “receipts,” a tiny cryptographically signed file they place inside purchased applications that let your […]

I use Twitter. A lot, and almost entirely on my Mac desktop. Over the years, I have switched between many popular client applications, often returning to old favorites when the specific advantages of one outweighs the advantages of another for my current priorities. The way I use Twitter is to leave one of these client […]

Following the cues of friends Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment, and Neven Mrgan, among others, I’m digging in to the Red Sweater Blog archives to find some older posts that I think are worth reading, if you missed them the first time around. I love the idea of highlighting things that others have written, but since […]

Like many people these days, I am using Marco Arment’s Instapaper to facilitate effortless postponement of reading longer, potentially interesting content I find on the web. Marco provides a handy bookmarklet that you can add to your browser’s button bar, so when you find something cool you just click “Read Later” and it gets added […]