Category Archives: apple
Rebuilding an iPhone
I started tinkering with a couple broken iPhones during a conference call yesterday. I had received the broken iPhones from two friends that I work with. One of the iPhones died by drowning (completely submerged and subsequently fried) and the other by paralysis – it had lost the use of its usb connection. Plugging the [...]
MacBook modding
Useless but awesome: [via SmokingApples]
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I dropped my iPhone -> best iPhone case
I dropped my iPhone a couple days ago. I was walking to my car, pulled out my iPhone, and… crap. It’s got a scratch. Wait… no… it’s got a crack! Dang. Just a few days ago one of my coworkers was admiring how shiny the back of my iPhone was. Barely any scratches – it [...]
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Problems with the latest MacBook Nvidia update
I was going to ignore the issue until I saw this thread from AppleInsider. People that were reportedly having problems with the integrated 9400M video cards in their late-2008 unibody MacBooks are still having problems with the latest driver update. I had some problems a while back with my secondary display flickering, but I haven’t [...]
Quick Tip: free up space in Mac OS X by removing printer drivers
If you’re looking to free up a little bit of space you can safely delete all of the printer drivers that come installed on your system by deleting all the folders in /Library/Printers. Should free up about 3 GB of space. Safe and effective.
Also posted in Tips & Tricks, Utilities Tagged apple, drivers, free, hard drive, Mac, OS X, printer, space 2 Comments
iPhone coding tutorial: Hello world!
In this tutorial I will walk you through the creation of a Hello World application. I know that Apple already has a Hello World! sample that you can look at, but if you’re just getting started that’s not enough of a walk through to show you what’s going on. This will be more than just [...]
Also posted in coding, development, iPhone Tagged cocoa, coding, hello world, iPhone, tutorial 15 Comments
Apple has such high standards, yet App Store developers make money on crapplications
Apple has very high standards for their products. This is their key to success. Ironically, the key to success for many App Store software developers has been to create “crapplications”, or “crapware”. Says High Gloss, creator of Sound Grenade: “Do some market research, work out that most of the people that download free apps are [...]
Still obvious: No iPhone Nano
January 21st posted at Apple Insider: Tim Cook on not playing in the low-end voice phone market: “our goal is not to be the unit share leader in the phone industry. It is to build the best phone.” Thank you Tim…
iPhone beats Android 6 to 1
AppleInsider reports an estimate the the iPhone may have beat out the Android 6 to 1 in sales between October and the end of 2008. This is great news for both sides. For Apple this shows that iPhone sales are still strong compared to its competitors. For Android this shows a great stride in adoption, [...]
Macworld 2009 Expo show floor summary
So many freaking rabbits! There were bunny ears everywhere. At first I only saw women wearing them- “oh, somebody must be handing out bunny ears,” I thought. But then I started seeing men wearing them. I got suspicious. Instead of simply asking a bunny-wearing attendee where he/she got them, I decided to go high tech [...]
Get a LoD of this: Blogger thinks MacWheel Onion Parody is real
In response to the Onion News Network’s MacWheel video one blogger writes: [read from Digg]
Get a LoD of this! Comic response to Steve Jobs weight loss
Today’s Link of the Day comes thanks to Macenstein and xkcd. Thanks! Macenstein posted a comic from xkcd. Funny.
Macrumorslive hacked during Macworld 09 Keynote!
So I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Macrumorslive.com got hacked while it was giving live updates of the Keynote. Too bad because they had a pretty cool Ajaxian feed update thing going on. I’m willing to bet that was step number one towards opening themselves up to hackers. The first hack that I noticed was [...]
Macworld 2009 Keynote coverage summary
So, I’m seeing lots of mixed feelings about Macworld. Some are super excited about the software, others think software stinks and they just wanted their hardware updates. I’m in the middle. I’m not super excited about the software, but I’m not disappointed about the lack of hardware updates either. I knew they weren’t going to [...]
Teaching Microsoft on a Mac