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Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02

January 17, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02:

Allerta – Allerta is an open source typeface designed for use in signage. Allerta was designed to be easily and quickly read from a distance. Each letter exploits the most unique aspects of that individual letter so that each character can be easily distinguished from any other.
Omnifocus Themes – Make OmniFocus less ugly with themes.
Picture Imperfect – Praise for Hipstamtic
Advanced drawing using AppKit –
MTA.ME – Animated musical MTA map
How Egypt did (and how your government could) shut down the Internet –
iPad App Marketing Case Study: Flickpad –
Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink — PaulStamatiou.com –
TextMate user – Using the best tool for the best job. TextMate – A great collection of TextMate tips & goodies.
Crash-only software: More than meets the eye [LWN.net] – Many Linux systems actually boot faster when recovering from a crash than from a clean shutdown & startup.
365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides –
Change Default iCal Event Length | Mac Tricks And Tips – I was looking for a way to change iCal's default event length to 30 minutes when I was scheduling meetings for MacWorld and I found this. It works nicely.
The F Word – You cannot advance the game by simply making it harder. This tactic hasn’t been acceptable since Space Invaders.
Scouting NY –
Dear Me: Get to work | 43 Folders – GTD is all about rapid, intuitive selection of what you need to be working on now. Whip out your context list appropriate for the time-place-opportunity-space you are in now. Scan through it, then do.
For the longest time I was having a problem with this. I'd scan through my context lists and I'd see things like:
Pack box up
Ask Bob about meeting
Review new design book
Send Cherry income information
Scanning down a list of actions in a context list should be like running your hand across a silk sheet. Scanning through these tasks felt less like silk and more like sand paper. Pack what into the box? What did I need to know about the meeting? Review the book for what, specifically?
Mobile & App Store WordPress Themes –
Persisting model state in Obj-C | XPerienced Blog –
Parallels Consumer Tech Blog: Do your classes require Windows? – Fact: 27% of college students use Macs (more than any other computer). Learn how to maximize your capability…

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Links for 2011-01-16

January 16, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-16:

Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms – People seem to hate AIR. Wherever you see AIR apps, there are support forum threads opened by customers begging for a native alternative, and usually a moderator sheepishly explaining that they just don’t “have the time” to do native apps for each platform. You see the same thing for popular services that only offer in-browser Flash apps.
10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques – Smashing Magazine –
Git – DreamHost – Instructions for setting up Git on DreamHost
what color is YOUR moggie? | MetaFilter –
What have you tried? » Matt Legend Gemmell – If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question “What have you tried?”

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I was originally planning to make a separate HD version of Removr with different levels designed especially for the larger screen, but after looking at several other games I saw that many of them use the same levels in the iPhone & iPad versions. Therefore, I decided to make a single universal version that supports iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The current levels work nicely when scaled up on the iPad, and I found that kids especially prefer to play it on the larger screen. I’m still doing some final testing and will hopefully submit it in a few days.

Links for 2011-01-12 through 2011-01-14

January 14, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-12 through 2011-01-14:

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Links for 2011-01-08 through 2011-01-12

January 12, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-08 through 2011-01-12:

How do iPhone apps Instagram/Reeder/DailyBooth implement custom NavigationBars with variable width back buttons? –
Visual 6502 in JavaScript –
Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona—By Ken Silverstein (Harper’s Magazine) –
peg.gd: Don’t Think of an Elephant – Hot rhetoric entertains the choir—but it won't buy you a single convert.
Not until you understand framing.
OWC launching SandForce-based SSDs for latest MacBook Air –

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Links for 2011-01-06 through 2011-01-07

January 7, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-06 through 2011-01-07:

Red Sweater Blog – The Future Of Mac App Store Installs – I learned a few things about how the Mac App Store install process works:
The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know – 40 Yiddish Words You Should Know #translation #xl8
Felt Tip blog – The Mac App Store bundle id issue is going to be a big problem if it’s not fixed:
Embryonic Stem Cells May Be Used to Cure Blindness « webbits – “@ChrisPirillo: Embryonic stem cells may be used to cure blindness. Awesome!
AlanQuatermain/mac-app-store-validation-sample – GitHub – Okay folks, here it is:
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers – Very cool and helpful site.
Read the fucking HIG. – Dear Mac Devs,

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How Mac App Store Updates Should Be Done

January 7, 2011 by Mike Cohen

As you probably know, Mac apps that you bought previously can’t be updated through the Mac app store. This is causing a lot of hard feelings between loyal customers and developers. Here’s a proposal for how app store upgrades can be implemented, with Apple’s cooperation.

Apple needs to allow an unlimited number of promo codes for the Mac app store. This is the only change Apple needs to make.
Developers who wish to provide updates can set up a page or script where a customer enters their current serial number.
With a current serial number, the developer can issue a promo code. If they wish, they can charge an upgrade fee for the promo code.
The customer then uses the promo code to download the app from the Mac app store.

Voila! Everyone is happy. The customer gets a free or discounted upgrade from the Mac app store, and the developer gets another sale or download, which increases their ranking and allows the customer to rate their app.

Links for 2011-01-06

January 6, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-06:

Validating App Store Receipts – You can add receipt validation code to your application to prevent unauthorized copies of your application from running. Refer to the license agreement and the review guidelines for specific information about what your application may and may not do to implement copy protection.
Receipt validation requires an understanding of cryptography and a variety of secure coding techniques. It's important that you employ a solution that is unique to your application.

You should perform receipt validation immediately after your application is launched, before displaying any user interface or spawning any child processes. Ideally, this check should happen in main, before NSApplicationMain is called. For additional security, you may repeat this check periodically while your application is running.
FriendDA — Slightly more than a hearty handshake –
Simplenote, JustNotes and TextExpander, Note Creation Bliss! –
Clarus History –
Dogcow Lore –

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Links for 2011-01-03 through 2011-01-05

January 5, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-03 through 2011-01-05:

Is This the End of the World? [Bad Things] – The new year has arrived and it is awful, what with bird/fish/crab death, floods, freezing temperatures, and zombie ex-Vice Presidents.
Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought) – When using computers, we like to refer to things with names. For example, this website is known as “www.aaronsw.com”. You can type that into your browser and read these words. There are three big properties we might want from such names:
secure: that when you type the name in you actually get my website and not the website of an imposter
decentralized: that no central authority controls all the names
human-readable: that the name is something you can actually remember instead of some long string of randomness
In a classic paper, Zooko argued that you can get at most two of these properties at any one time.
How the Tea Party’s fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine – Read It And Weep – (@Dahlialithwick riffs on the latest round of Constitutional Fetishism)
MacTech Labs: Virtualization Benchmarks | MacTech – #mac users want to run W7 on your Mac? Feast your eyes on this head-to-head benchmark comparison via #mactech
Do CES vendors fear Apple? – Do CES vendors fear Apple? [The Loop Links]
Defining and Managing Contexts in OmniFocus « Simplicity Is Bliss – Not sure how to put contexts to use in your workflow? @Simplicitybliss has some great advice here:
Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU –
How does the Twitter iPhone App implement a custom tab bar? –
RSS War! (As Fought On Twitter, Naturally) –
Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. –

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Links for 2011-01-02 through 2011-01-03

January 3, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-02 through 2011-01-03:

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