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Searching for iPhone App Names

iPhone OS 3.0 introduced Spotlight Search: Flick to the left and you can search through the apps you have installed as well as other things like contacts, calendars events, emails, songs and notes. For...

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iOS 4 ReadMe

iOS 4 Software Update This update contains over 100 new features, including the following: • Multitasking support for third-party apps* - Multitasking user interface to quickly move between apps -...

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Older versions of Xcode/iPhone SDK

Every once in a while you have to compile an older project with an iPhone SDK you may no longer have installed. Apple removes links to the older versions even though the SDKs are still on their...

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iPhone/iPad vs Android

I started using the TweetDeck User Stream Preview today and instantly I was able to see how fast tweets were coming in for each column. I was especially struck by the speed difference between my...

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Excluding build & log folders from TextMate

How many times have you done a Find in Project (Command-Shift-F) in TextMate and accidentally searched through your Rails development.log or your Xcode build files? TextMate tries to read these massive...

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Fixing error -39 when syncing an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

Are you getting a -39 error when you are syncing your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch? To get rid of it, you have to delete the ‘optimized’ versions of your photos and force iTunes to re-generate them: 1....

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Installing the Android SDK on Mac OS X

The official Android SDK page has instructions on getting setup but they cover multiple platforms and contain lot of noise. Here is the short list of instructions: System Requirements: You need an...

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Zaarly

Back in the mid 90′s I got my first high tech job at Aldus in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. Twelve years later I left the InDesign team at what was now Adobe Seattle to follow the Web 2.0...

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Steve Jobs: World’s greatest imperfection

Steve Jobs died yesterday. I’ve been a Mac guy a long time, but I’m not going to wax poetic about my first Mac, the joy I’ve gotten from Apple products, or how the Mac first made my career at...

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Facebook IPO’d today. What about the rest of us?

It’s Facebook IPO day. If you work at Facebook it’s gotta be a thrilling day. Even more so if you’re a newly minted millionaire. But what about the rest of us? If you’re in the startup world, you may...

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