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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:
Farewell, Old Friend and Enemy
They’re about to tear this down.
I only cut through the medical district yesterday on a whim, and while I knew this day was coming, I was shocked to see that the room in which my life — and the lives of my family members — changed forever was about to get demolished.
Part of me wanted to chain myself to the equipment, and another part of me wanted to tear what was left of the building to the ground for them.
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.
App Recommendation: ReaddleDocs for iPad
At $4.99 in the App Store, some might think its pricey, but ReaddlDocs scratches me right where I itch, so to speak.
For my day job, I have to carry (and be familiar with) hundreds of PDFs worth of building plans, schematics, cut sheets and service contracts.
Now, I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro which, while being ridiculed by some, is the perfect machine for me. However, my iPad 2 is obviously much more portable, with better battery life.
Setup: 1984
AP Unveils New Logo
‘I Hesitated’
From a great post by Elizabeth Cawein, editor of my student newspaper my junior year of high school:
And then, very abruptly, I’d written: “Someone asked me today if I was passionate about journalism. I hesitated.”
I went on to push at all the big questions: is this really what I want to be doing? Is what I’ve always planned for my life and my career the right thing for me? Do I love this or not? Does that matter?