April 2011
12 posts
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South Park Takes on Apple, Steve Jobs in Season... →
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Why Apple is tracking Location Data →
Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone?
Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.
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How to beat Apple →
Jason Kottke wrote an interesting piece with in my opinion some solid advice for competitors on how to compete with Apple. His most interesting observation is this:
I can’t remember if this is my own theory or I read about this on Daring Fireball or something, but the Apple products & services that Apple does well are the ones that Steve Jobs uses (or cares about) and the ones he...
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“We’ve got ambitious people from all around the world, that come here because...”
– Barack Obama
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3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking... →
I’ve been following the recent news stories about the iPhone’s “hidden tracking system” very closely. The main stream media was obviously all over this. After all, who doesn’t love a good scandal involving Apple? It’s guaranteed to get a lot of hits. As a geek I’ve learned to take every single news article about Apple with a huge grain of salt, especially...
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Randomly-Selected Snippets in TextExpander →
Brett Kelly wrote a nice tutorial on how to do random snippets in TextExpander using a nifty python script. An idea originally posed by Shawn Blanc
I wasn’t able to get Brett’s script working on first try because I had some linebreaks (which I didn’t notice) in my snippets, stupid I know. I actually figured out this was the problem by rewriting his script using Ruby. Turned out...
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The Dangers of Relying on Facebook →
pixamid:
Our app Pixamid is heavily reliant on Facebook - so much so that unless a user logs in with Facebook, the app is almost useless (it will still take photos and save them to the iPhone, but no magic whatsover)…
We went ahead and built our app with this reliance.
This post immediately reminds me of some advice Marco Arment gave during his speech @ Webstock 2011
Marco...
How to Get Good at Making Money →
ryancash:
Great article by Jason Fried. Love his idea about how to practice making money:
So here’s a great way to practice making money: Buy and sell the same thing over and over on Craigslist or eBay. Seriously.
Go buy something on Craigslist or eBay. Find something that’s a bit of a commodity, so you know there’s always plenty of supply and demand. An iPod is a good test. Buy it, and then...
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Computer Science for the Web
Josh Caldwell:
The building blocks of the internet — everything from network protocols, markup language interpretation and transformation to search algorithms — are fundamental topics of computer science. However, when it comes to building ‘web applications’ some software engineers and computer scientists balk, thinking web development is ‘below them’ -...