Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

I’m going to offer up my solution to the SpringBoard overload problem. If you’re not familiar, with 60,000+ apps on the the App Store, many iPhone customers have downloaded over 100 apps. And, that means that SpringBoard (the Home Screen) has become full. Additional apps over the ~120 limit, fall off the screen. Now, in [...]

As the title says, MechaWorks is building an Apple site. Because of my proximity to Apple however, I will have no editorial relations with the site. The news will not be driven, or touched by me… beyond any general advice and council (which, I would give to anyone, anyways). More details on it will be [...]

What was supposed to be a simple, five minute procedure… turned into an hour-long debacle. I wanted to print out a door sign for the MechaWorks meeting room at E3. Simple, right? I opened up iWork Pages, dropped the MechaWorks logo (in TIFF format) in, and the MechaWorks icon (in EPS format), sized them to [...]

Early this morning, we shipped the first MobileEdition-powered app to Apple. The Phone News app (from PhoneNews.com, of course) is in their hands right now. Stay tuned for when we get release dates for that, and other MobileEdition-powered sites. Now that one is done, getting the rest up is the process that we’re starting right [...]

Apple gave all iPhone developers some additional work to submit new apps, and we weren’t expecting that on launch week. So, MobileEdition will be delayed for additional testing… only by a couple of days (not counting the weekend). We still expect the first MobileEdition-powered sites to be in Apple’s hands by mid-week. In case you’re [...]

I’ve been hounded by emails pretty much non-stop ever since TheStreet.com reported on a potential Apple/Electronic Arts deal. Apple doesn’t buy companies like EA. Apple buys small to mid-range companies with large amounts of intellectual property. That IP can be tapped and used to make new chips, add multi-touch to iPhone, and all sorts of [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about HD and iPhone lately. I’m sure you’ve heard something about that by now. But, let’s take a look at history for a second first, just in case the crowds at Moscone West decide revolt if Apple doesn’t announce iPhone HD at WWDC. When the original iPhone came [...]

Scarred and tired, Jack Bauer has been infected by a supervirus and must take on a derelict PMC, hellbent on world domination. Sound familiar? If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid 4, you’ve officially been there and done that. I’ve long talked off-the-blog about 24′s continual ripping off of Metal Gear Solid. People have finally started [...]

Over the past 48 to 72 hours, Apple has issued a lot of updates, for everything from AirPort to RAW support. I just ran Repair Disk Permissions on a couple of Macs that have gotten all those updates beamed down… and there were quite a few permissions glitches. So, be sure to run Repair Disk [...]

For the first time, I’ve found a web browser that makes Web 2.0 apps feel like desktop ones. And, that browser is Safari 4. Safari 4 may lack all those community plugins, a point for which Safari is constantly critisized. But, that’s because people take Safari for granted. That’s right. People take for granted that [...]