Category Archives: Macintosh

Flash Is A Mess

Kevin Lynch of Adobe made some interesting claims recently while trying to defend flash and explain why it should be included on the iPad and iPhone:

Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not [...]

Wil Shipley on the MacBook Air

Yesterday, Apple announced the new MacBook Air. As I was reading the specs for it, I thought this would have been the perfect machine for me back when I commuted to Manhattan by ferry or Path train. Or even when I travelled frequently to give JavaScript training classes.

I simply can’t believe people are complaining about [...]

Make Me Laugh

I read a post about running Mac OS X apps on Linux on Slashdot this morning:

I have the urge to commit my 24″ Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I [...]

Beaming Up To The Mothership

It’s now official: I’ve been offered a position as part of the UI team for the Apple online store.

Naturally, I’ve accepted.

Of course, this means we have to move again. Fortunately, I have a very patient wife… I’ll be scouting apartments down in Los Gatos, Campbell, and Mountain View. Basically, towns that have a town rather [...]

Cocoa Drinking Fool

After spending most of my spare time building Web technologies lately, I’m finally going to switch gears to building a Cocoa application.