Yearly Archives: 2008

At last – Apple Revises iPhone Developer NDA

Link to press release. It’s about time. The dirt was piling up and as the press release says this was causing development strife. My favorite part: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. [...]

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Jay (through a wine glass)

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Super 8 Mirror Self Portrait

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Abobe Creative Suite 4 – It’s the little things

Layer masks can now stay linked to Smart Objects while moving/transforming the objects. Sorry that it took a while. I’m glad the Photoshop team got to that one. As with all updates to the suite, our workflow gets more and more non-destructive and powerful. The tiny tweak above makes Smart Objects suddenly extremely more malleable.

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My Daughter (via 3D ultrasound)

Her twin brother still didn’t want to show his face, so this is all you get for now. I think she looks just like her mother.

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Fun Console Message in OS X

While dealing with a randomly unmounting bus-powered hard drive I noticed a funny little message in the Apple OS X Console (emphasis mine): Sep 8 16:17:01 epeacock-Mac-Pro mds[34]: (/Volumes/Transfer Drive/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/9464266C-1F8A-4FB7-A0E8-44D55281108B)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexUpdateContent:Caught mach exception. Fun Fun Fun.

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Our baby is…

…a boy and a girl. Big surprise for us! “AA” is the boy and “BB” is the girl. The last two images show genitalia, so anyone who is opposed to fetal nudity should avert their eyes.

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Windows Usability According To Bill Gates (circa 2003)

The Seattle PI has a great reprint of one of Bill Gates Windows usability critiques aimed at his employees (via Daring Fireball). This was made available thanks to the antitrust hearings years ago, so it’s the real deal. It’s an interesting read — if you have ever been frustrated by downloading a Windows patch or [...]

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