Tag Archives: software

At last – Apple Revises iPhone Developer NDA

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 1, 2008

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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Abobe Creative Suite 4 – It’s the little things

By Eric Peacock | Published: September 23, 2008

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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Windows Usability According To Bill Gates (circa 2003)

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 25, 2008

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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Snow Leopard aka Mac OS X 10.6

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 9, 2008

Though the iPhone 3G is going to be the buzz for a while, Apple’s other WWDC announcement of pausing to do a proper optimization of OS X is great news as well. First, from what I can see this wasn’t being demanded from users and developers, however all software benefits from some cleanup and optimization. [...]

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Cabel Sasser – Coda Confidential

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 30, 2008

This is a great presentation if you’re keen on doing UI elements and screen-based design for applications, the web, etc. For the record I bought and now use Coda and love it for the hand-coding portions of my site work.

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Leopard First Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 30, 2007

Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata. It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, [...]

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