Archive for March, 2008

Extensive in-depth look at Time Machine’s innards

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008, by moose

If you are curious as to how Time Machine does its magic, you might want to take a good half hour to read the lengthy piece by Sven-S. Porst.
X.5 Time Machine (Quarter Life Crisis):
The impression I get from this – my limited experience spanning a few months and the reports I read – is the following: Time [...]

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iPhone development like brain surgery

Monday, March 17th, 2008, by moose

Great post by Dave Hockenberry about the much-maligned “limitations” (read ban) Apple imposes on background-running apps in the iPhone SDK.
furbo.org · Brain surgeons:
Some have stated that Apple is limiting innovation. My opinion is that they are helping us from collectively shooting ourselves in the feet.

(Via daring fireball.)

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iPod spotted onboard the space shuttle! [updated]

Saturday, March 15th, 2008, by moose

Looks like some astronauts get bored when they go a-flying above our heads, so they need some music to kill time.
Look closely on the picture below, taken probably from one of Endeavour’s mechanical arms or an astronaut:

(click to enlarge)
Yes, it’s a (3G I think) iPod in there…
(via Engadget)
[update: I stand corrected by Xavier who, in [...]

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“Time Machine may back up the entire Aperture Library on each run”. No, really?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008, by moose

According to this tech note from Apple’s KB,
Time Machine may back up the entire Aperture Library on each run:
This can happen if the Aperture library is included in Time Machine backups and a backup occurs while Aperture is running. In this situtation, Time Machine excludes the Aperture library from a backup while the application [...]

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WWDC 2008: “A landmark event” from June 9-13

Thursday, March 13th, 2008, by moose

WWDC 2008: “A landmark event” from June 9-13:

So that image has the whole Interweb abuzz (well, at least a few geek-oriented sites).
According to Gizmodo,
the two bridges could symbolize iPhone and Mac development
and MacRumors is of the same mind:
The developer invitation (pictured above) depicts two bridges, presumably representing Leopard and the iPhone OS.
Ahhh, don’t we all [...]

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iPhone 2.0 to sport new calculator?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008, by moose

So, according to Appleinsider, the 2.0 software update for the iPhone will bring, amongst other things, a new calculator UI:

(left: current one, right, “2.0″ one)
I kinda like the current calculator but there might be two reasons for the new look:
1) Apple decided that the small round keys where sort of easy to miss, and alos [...]

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Patent Wars: Revenge of the Loosers

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, by moose

Apple sued over foundation to iPod + iTunes franchise:
ZapMedia Services, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., claiming to have conceived the underlying principles of the iPod + iTunes franchise a full two years before the first iPod went on sale.
I’m going to try and patent the following: “System and method for trying to [...]

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Whiners, start your engines [UPDATED]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, by moose

So, MacWorld reports that some developers have started complaining about the limitation of the iPhone SDK. Remember when Apple released the iPhone, “developers” copmplained about the lack of an SDK, then Apple announced that they would ship an SDK, and “developers” complained in advance that it would be expensive, locked, only for some selected third-parties… [...]

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