While driving home from a camping trip on the weekend, I was listening to John Siracusa’s Hypercritical podcast, where he was talking about the iPad mini. I usually only listen to the tech podcasts in the car when everyone else is asleep on a long drive, but my wife was listening, and surprised me by […]
Here’s a part of this Twitter chaos that I don’t understand. Okay, so there’s a new limit where a particular application can only add 100,000 user tokens before it hits a limit, and needs to “talk to Twitter†to request more. People are assuming that this talking to Twitter won’t go well, and that effectively […]
I’m developing a Mac app that intends to receive push notifications using APNS. It seems I’m a bit off the beaten path here, so I’m sharing some information here to help the next developer to come along. Technical Note TN2265 tech note is very helpful. It mentions using push notifications on the Mac, and tells […]
Back in the day of dial-up internet, where you had to use a modem connected to a phone line to get online, DSL speeds were incredible. Dial-up internet data speeds typically capped out at about 30k/second. DSL, which uses a digital signal over the same wires, typically delivers just over 600k/second. A 20 times speed […]
I just ran into a bug in iOS 5.1, where the UIPanGestureRecognizer that is installed automatically for a UISplitViewController interferes with being able to drag a slider. This manifests itself as that you can drag the slider left, but attempting to drag it right causes it to move a few pixels and then stop tracking. […]
Apple has released a new Podcasts app for iOS. The app has two interesting design twists on the genre. The first is that the metaphor for browsing for podcasts is an old style radio dial. Check it out: And the other is the media player screen, where, in keeping with the old school radio technology […]
A few weeks ago I blogged about a crash in MealPlan that was found only after I managed to talk a user through sending me a crash log. And in another post I mentioned my frustration at seeing reviews by users saying my app is crashing, when I had no reports from users and no […]
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this thing and it’s hard to know where to start. It looks great. The promise of a tablet that’s really a full desktop computer that can run desktop apps as well as touch apps sounds pretty good, and the hardware looks slick. Nicely designed. I […]
I’ve been thinking about what one might do with apps on a TV set. It’s actually quite an interesting field when you think about it. Here are some things that an Apple TV set could do. One of the reasons a lot of people pay for TV service is for the daily shows, like Dr […]
A number of users requested that they be able to add notes to a meal in MealPlan, and users have also requested being able to add links. I wanted to add a single field for notes, which could include one or more links. The note field would need to be editable, but the links also […]