Filed under: Odds and endsSachin Agarwal, cofounder and CEO of Posterous, and former Apple employee who worked on Final Cut Pro, thinks that the Finder is dead. I wouldn’t break out the sackcloth and ashes (or the champagne, depending on your feelings …
Category Archives: iPhone Apps
Apple.com’s Downloads page being updated again
Filed under: SoftwareThere are signs of life at Apple’s Download page. If you look at the list on the right Hot Plan 1.5.1, Screenflick 1.6.13, and Volumetrix 2.0.1 were all added on May 4th. Before that, Pasteboard Recorder was updated on March 26th.
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Rudix, a lightweight way to add new Unix utilities
Filed under: UNIX / BSDRudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default.
When setting up a new Mac I always install these Unix utilities: wget, ncftp, lynx with SSL support, and the GNU Core Utilities. I compile them…
msmtp, a free tool to send email from Terminal
Filed under: UNIX / BSDI fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several “Why don’t you use use XYZ instead?” replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail.
But one …
iPad pulls Fraser Speirs back in to iPhone OS development
Filed under: App StoreWhen I saw Mac developer Fraser Speirs’ Twitter post linking to a blog entry titled “Back In” I knew what it was about: the App Store.
Back in September 2008, Fraser announced he was ceasing new iPhone OS development in a widely…
Use mailsend to send email from the Terminal
Filed under: UNIX / BSD
Update: After this article was written I learned of mstmp which I highly recommend instead of mailsend.
There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron or launchd, when certain even…
Apple posts thoughts on Flash
Filed under: Steve JobsApple has posted their Thoughts on Flash, signed by Steve Jobs himself, which echos a lot of the commentary that you’ve probably already read on why Apple isn’t supporting Flash on iPhone OS devices, and why they plan to block ap…
Downloads page at Apple.com no longer being updated
Filed under: SoftwareOn March 16th, we reported that although the “Downloads” tab had been removed from Apple’s homepage, the downloads page itself was still available.
However, about 10 days after that, Apple apparently ceased updating the page. The m…
Hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 10v discontinued
Filed under: HacksThe Dell Mini 10v, choice of netbook hackintosh owners everywhere, has apparently been discontinued as of a week ago. I discovered that today when I couldn’t find any on Dell’s site, and confirmed it with a live chat with a support re…
Manage your TUAW commenter profile
Filed under: TUAW Business We’ve had a few inquiries on our tip line and feedback form in the past few days about managing your TUAW commenter profile. Whenever you leave a comment on a TUAW post, an account is created for you using the name and email …