Archives for April, 2006

Apple Design Awards – another motivator April 27th, 2006

The Apple Design Awards for 2006 are open for Mac Developers to submit their shipping apps. This is another good motivator for us who are developing Mac apps but are a bit perfectionist to actually release our apps. Beta apps and non-shipping apps are not eligible. A new requirement this year is that the app …

17″ MacBook Pro is here April 25th, 2006

Apple released the 17″ MacBook Pro today which was a big surprise to me. Then again, Apple was at NAB so that is a good time for them to announce new hardware. I’ve currently got the 17″ 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. So let me do a quick comparison (this is the current 17″ MBP vs the …

John Gruber is living “The Life” April 21st, 2006

Today I opened up my full-text RSS feed of Daring Fireball. I found out that John Gruber has quit his day job at Joyent and is now living “The Life”. (A term he invented and popularized which is now nicely fitting.) I love reading his stuff and I’m eagerly awaiting my DF t-shirt (the classic …

Interesting insights from the Apple earnings call April 20th, 2006

In the late 90s, like a lot of people, I was really into investing. I mean it was sort of effortless back then. You could almost throw darts and come out with at least a 20% return. Do some actual research and you could get 70% return. Things are more normal nowadays. One of the …

19 is my limit April 14th, 2006

I used to really like to sleep. I’d get 8 hours on average. I’d be completely rested and wide awake all the time. But I always felt like I didn’t push myself enough. Like I was missing out. The past few weeks (probably more) I’ve pushed myself to the edge. Like they say in Firefly, …

Boot Camp changes the equation April 11th, 2006

Boot Camp makes it more compelling to buy a Mac nowadays, I think. I talked with a friend on Sunday whose Windows laptop is dying. Now he is thinking about adding a desktop Mac to go along with it, because of Boot Camp. He’ll run Windows and also OS X. I think he’s wanted to …

I’m now a happy Daring Fireball subscriber April 7th, 2006

Well I finished my federal taxes and I realized I was getting a nice refund. Plus I had recently read today the brilliant article “Windows is the New Classic“. So I did what a good Mac enthusiast would do and finally bought a Daring Fireball membership! Now I’ve got access to the Full Article and …

No way! DualBootCamp. April 5th, 2006

No, Boot Camp is not the latest Ajax-enabled webapp from 37signals. (That’s Basecamp.) Boot Camp is Apple’s really late April Fool’s Joke. No, that’s not it either. Boot Camp is Apple’s 30th Anniversary surprise! It is an official Apple-supported way (currently in beta) to dual-boot an Intel Mac in both OS X and Windows XP. …

Licensing is hard April 5th, 2006

I’m doing something I’ve never done before, which always makes for a good learning experience, but sometimes can seem quite hard. I’m writing licensing code and also implementing the process around it. I’ve never actually charged for any software before in my life. And neither have any of the companies I’ve worked for! Well, that’s …