The Command Line

I saw this on the Apple Java-Dev mailing list. It would be easy to spew bile as a knee jerk reaction to this, but after consideration, I think it makes sense, for a variety of reasons.

From the Download Squad:

Pac Man widget killed by Namco:

Filed under: Macintosh, News, Fun, Games

Perhaps the fact that Chris Marks’ Pac Man widget was the top Dashboard download on Apple’s site is what killed it. Lawyers for Namco, which owns the rights to the old school game, apparently put the squeeze on both Apple and [...]

Boy, is this ever a troll. Might as well postulate that Apple will become a product-less company in twenty years, subsisting solely on brand cache.

I may be terminally clueless, here, but I just saw Widgetarium on my VersionTracker feed. Damn, I was ramping up on Cocoa to build this same application. Crap!

The bash was OK, but basically, we spent the entire night in line. In line for the bus, to get in, to get food, to get beer, for the company store, for the restroom, and back onto the bus.

As a paid up member of the Apple Developer Connection, I can’t discuss the meat of the sessions, but I can talk about the character of the conference as a whole and the sorts of people I have been meeting. For my first WWDC, I have to say I am immensely pleased.

This was apparently hiding in the iPodderX support forums, I guess I just didn’t search hard enough. Thanks to Ray and August, themselves, for explaining this to me, in person. The fix is to go into iTunes, open preferences, and on the import tab, use a custom encoding rate. Change the channels [...]

Take a look at this. And here’s another interesting write up, though I don’t agree with the conclusion. I tend to agree with Dvorak’s interpretation, that folks will be willing to pay a bit more to get a piece of hardware they are going to be happier hanging onto for the longer obsolescence [...]

I’m getting a little tired of the gross over simplification of Apple’s decision to use Intel processor to mean that this directly equates to beige boxes flooding the market running Mac OS X. I don’t pretend to know the full ramifications of their decision, but I think the very notion of flies in the [...]

I was at the keynote this morning.  I got pictures and video of Jobs talking through this announcement.  Very, very kewl to be there, first person, for what will undoubtedly become a historic moment, one way or the other.
I got to Moscone West at what I thought was an early hour, but it was already [...]