Capricious Review

John Gruber’s hilariously funny, dead-on diary of an App Store reviewer. This should be spreading around the Infinite Loop campus right about now. It is also a brilliant blog idea.

Patience and Hard Work

Des Traynor: It’s not just writing an app, it’s attracting a market, supporting customers, dealing with enquiries, writing blog posts, talking to technology news sites, partnering with complimentary applications, handling feature requests. All of that is hard, but you have to plan for it if you’re assuming

Hulu Desktop

Hulu Desktop is a Boxee-like interface for browsing and watching Hulu on your computer. It works with the Apple Remote. Looks nice, and is certainly better than using the web site, but this still isn’t what I’m looking for. To watch it on a TV, it still

Who Regulates the Regulators?

Harvard professor Niall Ferguson: It is more than a little convenient for America’s political class to blame deregulation for this financial crisis and the resulting excesses of the free market. Not only does that neatly pass the buck, but it also creates a justification for . . . more regulation. The old

Another Example of the Greatness that is the Mac Community

Just another example of why the Mac community is so great: @chockenberry I know it’s not “official” till tomorrow, but congratulations on a great release. That is Loren Brichter, creator of Tweetie. Make sure to look at Hockenberry’s reply, too.

Apple Rejects iFlash Touch

David McGavern posted yesterday that Apple rejected his iPhone application because: I called Apple Developer Technical Support to find out what was going on with the review process, and to see if my earlier comments had been received. They then told me the shocking news that writing an iPhone app

The State of Fusion

Michael Mistretta on Fusion Ads: I enjoy the ads in Tweetie. I’m continually wishing there were more of them. I’m biased, so that may not count, but when people say that our ads are more relevant than half their tweets, I start to wonder if we’re really

Jon Stewart and Cliff May on Torture

Tuesday’s episode of the Daily Show included a debate between Jon Stewart and Cliff May on torture, but the full debate was too long to fit in the show. Here’s the unedited version of the debate, which is one of the better discussions I’ve heard. Jon argued

▮ A Series of Niches

Newspapers are dying. Print subscribers are down, print advertising revenue has declined precipitously, and there is no reason to think either of these trends will change. The newspaper’s current model — focus on print, provide general news, and monetize it through an ever-increasing number of mass-market, obtrusive ads

Keynote Kung-fu

Rands on beginning Keynote presentations: I don’t want to worry about anything except the ideas and basic flow. Black is pleasantly generic. The rule is: if you’re starting a presentation by endlessly fussing with your presentation design, you probably don’t have anything to say.

Radical, Yet Not

Loren Brichter on Tweetie for Mac’s sidebar design in an interview with Macworld: The sidebar design in Tweetie for Mac solves these problems in an extremely elegant and scalable way. It’s new and different, which is hard for some people to swallow, but somebody needs to push the

Addendum to TightWind in Print

The TightWind book is a little expensive, and so I wanted to make a more affordable version available along side it, but maintain the same level of quality the book has. Here it is. This is a 52-page booklet version, printed by Magcloud. The print quality is excellent. It