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Networking Crashes In Mountain Lion

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Before Mountain Lion 10.8 shipped, I had received reports from one customer that MarsEdit was crashing each and every time he attempted to access the network. For an app like MarsEdit whose entire raison d’être is to access the network, this is quite an unfortunate obstacle. The public release of Mountain Lion has only confirmed […]

The Red Sweater Review Of Instapaper’s Archiving Of John Siracusa’s Review Of Mountain Lion 10.8

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Instapaper developer Marco Arment responded to the latest installment of John Siracusa’s famously elaborate Mac OS X reviews with an amusing, fairly elaborate review of the review itself. Each is worth reading, or at a minimum, each is worth reading later. Siracusa’s article is particularly suitable to archiving for later perusal, as it clocks in […]

Subscribe To Feed Safari Extension

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Now that Safari 6 is available as part of Mountain Lion 10.8, and as a software update for Lion, I can finally explain the rumblings I made months ago about an extension facilitating feed subscription directly from Safari. The motivation behind my foray into Safari extension development was my early adoption of Safari 6 during […]

Target The Forward Fringe

Friday, July 6th, 2012

Marco Arment quipped on Twitter that web designers need to take HiDPI displays seriously, and adapt their designs to look great on them. If you’re a web designer, you really, really need to get a Retina MacBook Pro so you can see how bad your site looks on it and fix it. — Marco Arment […]