Reg Braithwaite has a brilliant piece about Apple as a purveyor of hardware as opposed to software.
Apple is in the hardware business:
People who think of the argument as being Apple vs. Microsoft think of the two companies as being in the OS business. But Apple is not in the OS business, and hasn’t been in [...]
Posted on November 13, 2007, 11:14 pm, by jamiegrove, under
OSX.
I’ve been posting little zip archives of the latest scal on the site for awhile now using the nice “Create Archive” feature in OSX. Problem is, when you create a ZIP archive all of the happy Mac hidden directories come along for the ride. This includes .DS_Store. If the directory is under [...]
Posted on October 6, 2007, 8:49 am, by jamiegrove, under
OSX,
scal.
I wouldn’t say I’m a heavy user of Dashboard, but I really like the idea of creating widgets. Widgets are also used in the iPhone and iPod Touch, so if I ever make the switch [crave] there’s no doubt I’ll want to develop some useless toys for my $$$ toy.
Since I’ve [...]