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I keep up with “WebKit”:http://www.webkit.org builds an a daily basis and have noticed a marked upturn in their release schedule. For the past three months or so, I would normally see an updated build roughly every five days (I’m completely guesstimating here from memory). For the past four or five days, I have seen a [...]

Pretty funny, but having used the iPhone, that Nokia feels positively Soviet-era. I get the point though.

A overview from the multitouch-father.

Now this is worthy of the moniker, a fscking cool hack. Watch the You-Tube thingy to get the thousand-plus words.

Interesting behind the scenes design philosophies and stories from the SxSW panel.

Video from the very dedicated second person in line. Incredible building and incredible lines.

It’s so predictable, it’s become a science.

Really nice article about OSX key bindings. The included samples for partial Windows and Emacs (gasp!) keyboard emulation rule.

The offending string found in “boot.efi”:http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/905005537731/r/360002247731#360002247731:
BTW, anyone tried executing the “file” command on the file /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi? This is the file that gets booted by the EFI (OpenFirmware successor). You get the following answer: /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi: _MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 executable_
OMG, Mac OS X kernel is now loaded by a WINDOWS EXECUTABLE!

“Hilarious writeup”:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060110-5940.html dripping with sarcasm on the Apple / Intel lovin’ going on at MWSF today.
Apple opened up something like a million stores, or 135 total, and they will open more in 2006, with 26 million visitors during the holidays, a US$ 5.7 billion quarter. There will be more stores too, including stores in places [...]

You know, “Apple’s foray (Apple’s my-tay mouse)”:http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/ into 21st century computer mouse technology is cool and all, but ever since I started using my “Evoluent”:http://www.evoluent.com/ mouse, every other mouse on the market (including Apple’s) is still shite for your wrist. You can have my Evoluent mouse when you pry it from my cold dead vertically [...]

“Goodbye PowerPC”:http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050607.ars. A nice essay on what the switch to Intel means to a CPU and Mac geek: the end of an era.

So the gobsmackingly unexpected news is that Apple is switching to Intel for its chips. Speculation and consternation abound among the mac-irritaterati over the weekend. The Inquirer “confirms”:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23714 the story as true.
After Monday’s announcement at Moscone, across the river Styx, ice crystals will start to form and the place will start to look like Norway [...]

Sensing critical mass with the mind-boggling success of the iPod, Apple is poised to introduce it’s own sub-$500 media center to the public during MacWorld SF next week. Apparently, “this”:http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/ is what it looks like. Or not.
UPDATE: It appears to be a suspiciously interesting fake, which is actually a relief. I thought the new boxes [...]

What innovation means from the CEO of the only innovative company left in the computer industry.

Q: How do you systematize innovation?
A: The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes [...]

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts tomorrow in SF, but the OS snarking has already commenced: Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers. Fucking brilliant.

Kick Ay-uss! Opera 7.5 Beta for OSX. The good: The fastest browser I’ve used on my tiBook; mouse gestures are effortless and responsive; page caching is instantaneous (just like on Windows). No one has been able to touch Opera’s speed in this regard. The bad: UI is crapaliciously un-Mac like, but that is a very [...]

Kovach, my learned gearhead friend, found me a great deal on an Evolution MK-361c, a MIDI keyboard controller that I’ve been using non-stop with Garageband since I received it last week.
Allow me to say that GB is the single greatest iApp that Apple has ever produced. It’s incredibly simply to create professional sounding music with [...]