The previous little “Saved!” frame had a great run, but its time has passed. Readers are now saving more pages than ever on tablets and phones, and the old bookmarklet wasn’t visible enough there. Instapaper’s customers would often complain that they didn’t even see the old bookmarklet working.
So the bookmarklet now sports a completely new design that’s highly visible at every screen size, and works in more browsers, too.
Category: Apple
Mac Floppy
My bud Thomas Brand has a new site, and it’s awesome.
Twitter Apps to Get Ads
How long until third-party apps have to include these tweets?
Missing the Surprise
In the world of 24-hour news, Twitter accounts and blurrycam photos, it’s hard to be surprised by much anymore.
Sure, Apple pulls it off every once in a while — most recently with Mountain Lion — but usually, when an Apple event is about to be held, just about everyone has a good guess at what is under that black cloth.
This time around, every nerd I know is talking about the iPad 3’s Retina Display, its LTE chipset and the fact that the case is 0.8 mm thicker.
Apple Announces iPad Event
It’s on March 7, in San Francisco.
Apple announced right in the middle of the Google keynote at Mobile World Congress. Classic.
‘OS X Cowardly Lion’
Chernobyl? There’s an App for That
Photographer Gerd Ludwig’s coverage of Chernobyl is stunning. At $7, this app is very much worth the photos and information it contains.
Apple Launches Developer ID Program
Apple:
The Mac App Store is the safest place for users to get software for their Mac, but we also want to protect users when they download applications from other places. Developer ID is a new way to help prevent users from installing malware on their Mac. Along with Gatekeeper, a new feature in Mountain Lion, signing applications with your Developer ID certificate provides users with the confidence that your application is not known malware and has not been tampered with.
Photoshop for iPad
As cool as this seems, why would Apple not wait to show this off with a Retina Display iPad in a few weeks?
On the Macintosh File System
After listening to this week’s Hypercritical, on which John and Dan discuss file systems for about 17 hours, I realized that I didn’t know much about what came before the Hierarchical File System.
HFS, of course, is the grandfather of HFS+, which the Macintosh uses today. It was first released with the Hard Disk 20 for use with the Fat Mac in September 1985.
Apple dropped support for MFS in System 7.6.1.
The original Macintosh shipped with the Macintosh File System. Designed to run on the 400k floppy disks that Mac owners knew so well, it had several notable features:
An Exclusive Look at Mac OS 9
…speaking of Thomas Brand, this is great.
Dual Booting with Mountain Lion
A reckless enthusiast might throw caution to the wind, install 10.8 over their existing operating system, only to complain about the rough edges later. An experienced veteran of beta software knows you can’t easily undo an operating system upgrade and prefers to preserve their current OS while dual booting into 10.8.
Depending on your Mac, dual booting between two versions of OS X can be accomplished in a number of ways.