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Here’s 30 of the best tools for developers, some of which you might already be using and others you might have just have heard of in passing. Even if you’re not a developer, be sure to give the roundup a look, as there’s a lot of productivity apps in here that just might appeal to you too!
Apple has just pushed out OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 just moments after releasing iOS 6 to the general public. The update makes available a variety of features that put OS X on par with iOS, namely Facebook integration inside Notification Center, Game Center, Contacts, and Mountain Lion's "Share" button. 10.8.2 also includes Power Nap support for late 2010 MacBook Airs, as well as consolidated AppleIDs and phone numbers — which means that iMessages or FaceTime calls sent to your phone number will now also appear on your Mac.
— Download the latest version of iTunes 10.7 — This will add iOS 6 compatibility to your software Back up your photos and important files. Even if you use iCloud, consider doing a full backup in iTunes, just in case. If you don’t already have a copy of your contacts and calendars on your Mac or PC, go ahead and back those up too. Find your power. Apple won’t let you update your device if you don’t have a minimum amount of power. The updates are fairly large, at over 500MB per device — so go ahead and plug into some power before starting the update.
To launch Wi-Fi Diagnostics, hold down the Option key as you click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar. That’ll open the Wi-Fi menu with an Open Wi-Fi Diagnostics item at the bottom; click that item to open the utility. You can also launch the program directly from its hidey-hole: In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder, and enter /System/Library/CoreServices/. You’ll find the Wi-Fi Diagnostics app in there.
In keeping with recent meteorological themes – iCloud, Thunderbolt – yesterday Apple introduced the new “Lightning” connector for its mobile hardware. This will be the replacement for the venerable 30-pin dock connector introduced 9 years ago. I haven’t seen it in person yet, but here’s some speculation on how it may work.
On the face of it, this dongle and app combo is a remote shutter release for your iPhone – but that’s just the beginning of its capabilities.
The rumors are confirmed the iPhone 5 does use the nano-SIM standard. Although they didn't mention in its event, the company has confirmed with an iPhone model comparison chart.
Take a look at these vintage Apple Inc. commercials for a tour of the past.
The Canon EOS C100 is almost “affordable”, and we should see lots of content from it. I’ll be buying one for my rental business, and hopefully I’ll learn something about shooting video. Film Information (By Sebastien DEVAUD) “Earlier this year, i was contacted by Canon Inc to create a new exclusive film for the worldwide launch of the new EOS Cinema camera : The EOS C100
After writing about how iPads and YourTeacher helped raise math scores by 49%, I decided to speak with YourTeacher CEO Charlie Hermes to find out more about his company, and what it’s like to publish textbooks on the iBookstore.
Wonderful Article!
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-nine newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. One of the key patents published today covers a major patent win for Apple TV, the set-top-box. Apple's patent clearly shows that Apple TV was and/or is going to work with cable TV and provide PVR like features. Whether Apple TV will ever make the leap to being a fully advanced iOS based Smart TV is unknown at this time – though it certainly would be a way to get under Samsung's skin. That's reason alone for Apple to move into this market. Only time will tell.
Apogee has now officially introduced the Quartet, which arrives carrying four inputs and eight outputs for a significant boost in channel capacity. The Quartet can also be paired with Apogee's Duet 2 or Ensemble product to expand the number of channels even further.
If you’re worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach of an FBI agent’s laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a tool to help you check. AntiSec claimed on Tuesday that it had culled 12 million device IDs, along with accompanying personal information, from the FBI in March of this year. The hacker group then leaked 1 million of them, saying it had removed some of the identifiable information from the list, while leaving enough for users to see if their device was leaked.
Fitts’ Law is an essential principle of Human-Computer Interaction theory that was formulated almost 60 years ago. It’s critical to UX design for the desktop and laptop, but with interaction techniques being vastly different on mobile devices can we still use it the same way? We’ll look at what Fitts’ Law consists of and how it is applied to design on mobile devices.
One line of JavaScript and a few mod_rewrite rules and we have no fuss Automatic Conditional Retina Images. No DOM crawling. No redundant requests. No server-side scripts. No cookies? No problem, they just get the original image. The only change you might need to make to your workflow is explicitly defining image width and height in HTML (you should really be doing this already) and background-size in your CSS. And of course, creating retina images. If your original image is named circle.png the retina version should be circle@2x.png If you forget a retina image the original image will be served, even on retina devices.
Do you wish you could bring your TV with you wherever you go? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just slide your TV right in your pocket? Well, Elgato’s EyeTV Mobile product has you covered.
Neat option for the travelers.
According to several U.S. security agencies, a hack burrowing dangerously around the web through browser-based Java software has already hit Windows and is a serious danger to Mountain Lion OS X.
Oh come on..., not again!
The Urban Weather Station connects to your WiFi network to upload data to your Mac and iOS devices, monitors temperature and humidity, air pressure, air quality, outsold sound levels, and includes an indoor sensor to track temperature, humidity and CO2 levels in your home or office.
Following Apple’s big win in U.S. court today against Samsung, Apple CEO has sent a memo response to Apple corporate employees. The statement is reminiscent of Apple PR head Katie Cotton’s statement from earlier today, but adds some other new, personal touches as Apple’s CEO (who celebrates one year on the job today). Read more at http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/24/tim-cook-tells-apple-employees-that-todays-victory-is-about-values/#drRi9CpTt8YAKDei.99
Zero Dollars for Apple.
