Genius.
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Archive > February 2009
John Welch: ‘On Installers’
Detailed, thoughtful treatise on the art of producing good software installers:
Look, writing installers is not glamorous, it’s tedious, and it’s also completely fucking important. The installer is either the first or second experience someone has with your work. (It’s second if physical media, first if a download.)
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The Omni Group Releases Four Apps, Including OmniWeb, as Freeware
OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter released as freeware. When OmniWeb 5 first appeared, it really moved the state-of-the-art forward.
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Alex Payne on Weblog Comments (and ‘Everything Buckets’)
Alex Payne:
I think people do their best writing when they’re forced to defend their ideas on their own turf. It’s one thing to leave a comment on someone else’s blog, but quite another to put your argument in front of your own readers. It forces a level of consideration that, without fail, results in a [...]
June, Eh?
Rex Crum, reporting on analysts’ thoughts on Apple:
Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. holds a buy rating on Apple’s stock. However, on Tuesday, he trimmed his second-quarter revenue estimate on Apple to $7.7 billion from $7.8 billion, and left his $1.06 a share earnings target unchanged. Wu said Apple’s Mac business looks weak in the current [...]
Introducing Safari 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative browser
Apple today announced Safari 4 public beta for Mac and Windows. With its new Nitro engine, Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. And it features many innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable, including Top Sites, Full History Search, Cover Flow, Tabs on Top, and still others. [...]
Quick Tip of the Week: Using Spotlight to locate a file in the Finder
In Mac OS X Leopard, you can instantly find and then immediately open a document using Spotlight. But what if you find a document and you’re not sure it’s the one you want to open? Or you simply want to learn where it’s located on your Mac? Instead of opening the file, find out how [...]
Rogue Amoeba Is Hiring
Full-time openings for a Cocoa UI engineer and user interface designer at one of the leading Mac development shops. Great opportunity for a rock star UI designer.
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Apple’s PR for Safari 4
I didn’t notice this morning that the marketing name for WebKit’s new JavaScript engine has been changed from SquirrelFish to Nitro.
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Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
You can switch back to the old-style tab bar with one of them, and restore the old “progress bar inside the location field” feature with two others. I’m willing to give the new-style tabs at least a week — don’t be a chicken and switch back already. (Via Matt Gemmell.)
Update: The site has crapped out, [...]
