Archive for December 2007

Navigating Tab Views in IB 3

MCubed: “In IB2 you navigated between them by selecting a tab view item (ie clicking on any blank space in the tab view) and pressing tab. Simple enough. In IB3 this isn’t the case, and there is no mention of the change anywhere in any release notes or documentation I can find. After much button [...]

How Can You Tell If It’s A Good Idea?

Evhead on the keys to evaluating a startup idea (Tractability, Obviousness, Deepness, Wideness, Monetizability, and Compellingness). Great stuff…

“The key question for evaluating an idea is number one: Is it obvious why people should use it? In most cases, obviousness in this regard is inversely proportional to tractability. The cost of Blogger and Twitter’s [...]

Learn Cocoa For Leopard

Scott Stevenson has completely updated his excellent Learn Cocoa tutorial for Leopard.

If you’ve been meaning to try Cocoa and Objective-C and you have some time to kill on the holidays, check this out.

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Leopard to Quay Stacks?

Macenstein says that the next release of Leopard will give a hierarchical menu view option to stacks.

As usual, Rainer Brockerhoff has led us to the promised land with Quay:

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Ubuntu vs OS X

Andy Matuschak on the ways in which Ubuntu is better and easier than Mac OS X:’

We’ve got all these apps to solve all these problems, but where’s the app to solve the problem of getting the tool to solve the problem we’re currently facing? Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Mike Gibson, you should be ashamed!

Alistair calls out a hacker he caught trying to pirate iPartition: “And Mike, if you’re reading this and wishing you had been more discreet3, you’ve missed the point entirely. You shouldn’t be trying to get hold of illegal copies of other peoples’ hard work in the first place. If you want a copy of [...]

37 Signals on Getting Ink

The serial web developers over at 37 Signals have a great article today on generating marketing buzz for your product.

It boils down to:

Create something of value Be nice and be real

Money quote:

Companies that spend tons of ad/PR dollars to convince people their products are worthwhile are like guys who spend lots of money on gifts and [...]

Using atos to convert numeric addresses to symbols

Daniel Jalkut explains how to use atos to decipher Mac crash logs even if you ship your program without symbols. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

XIB Files

Frasier Speirs: What are XIB files anyways? Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Kafasis on Mac Santa

Mac Voices interviews Paul Kafasis about Mac Santa.

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