Justin Blanton explains how he writes on the Mac. It’s a great setup, and the same thing I use, except the TextMate bit. I prefer writing directly in Notational Velocity.
As he mentions it in his footnote, Notational Velocity can store it’s files (as plain text files) in any folder, including a folder in your Dropbox. I store mine there as a second-tier sync, knowing I can get to my stuff, even if Simplenote is down.
We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
In addition, for the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps. We hope it will make us more transparent and help our developers create even more successful apps for the App Store.
The iPod touch has been around about as long as the iPhone. It was launched three months after the first iPhone 2G, almost exactly three years ago. While the iPad has been in the market less than six months, a large number of potential competitors have been launched running Android and there seems to be a real rush to market. Six months is about as quickly as any hardware product can be reasonably engineered.
This sure seems to be a violation of Apple’s terms:
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Oh, wait. This is Gizmodo. They don’t concern themselves with such things.
Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman, on Delicious Library 2:
So Delicious Library 2 would ship with a whole new back- and front-ends—in effect, it was like a whole new product. But Shipley didn’t stop there; instead, DL2 piled on new features, including a whole list of new product categories it could track, like video games, tools, and other items. It also added web exporting with iWeb integration, a companion iPhone app (which was later dropped due to API limitations set by Amazon), library sharing with friends, improved AppleScript support, and more.
So very true, Shawn.
Have I ever checked email, read incoming tweets or responded to a text message while behind the wheel of a car? Yes. I’m usually at a stoplight or stuck in motionless traffic when I actually use my phone’s virtual keyboard. That factor might make might my behavior slightly less risky, but it doesn’t make it any less stupid.
While I can imagine either sending or receiving a message so pressing that an action would have to be taken at that very moment, I’ve never actually experienced such a scenario. The urgency that drives me to check Twitter or read an email while in the car is entirely a creation of my own mind.
Janie Porter at WTSP Channel 10 News in Tampa Bay:
A woman in the Philadelphia area is recovering from “Blackberry thumb” surgery.
The mortgage banker spends 12 hours a day texting clients on her iPhone.
“I’m texted out,” she said.
The constant texting put so much pressure on her hands that the tendons in her thumb became inflamed. She had to undergo surgery to remove the tendons.
Nope, we’re not crazy… okay, maybe just a tiny bit (but shh, don’t tell anybody). From today, we’re making just about the entire iPhone app available free for everyone to use — yay!
What’s the catch? We’ve introduced a limit to the free app: you’ll be able to sync manually once every 24 hours with the Remember The Milk servers, which is great for backing up your tasks and notes online.