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Twas The Night Before C4

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

I’m leaving for C4 tomorrow, which is sort of my way of making up for missing WWDC this year. I’m excited to meet lots of people in person who I’ve come to know through the bit paths of the internet. It occurred to me that most people at the conference won’t know me when they […]

Tangerine Dream App

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The boys at Potion Factory are at once inspiring and depressing. It seems that in the space of time it takes me to think about an app and decide to maybe, sorta get started on it, they’re able to design and implement a totally functional, fun, and beautiful app that completely exceeds my expectations. Either […]

As The Eagle Files

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Michael Tsai is the man behind C-Command, and well known for the past few years as the author of SpamSieve and DropDMG, in addition to his tireless work on ATPM. Last week he released EagleFiler, and I’m pleasantly surprised to see such a mature 1.0 application drop (swoop?) unannounced from the sky. I’m not sure […]

Taking The Blame

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Apple shipped a Windows virus on a very small number of iPods, but like a child who can’t say sorry without adding a “but” clause, their announcement falls short of complete contrition. “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves […]