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حزب المحافظين فون التطبيق وDPA
I’m an iPhone app developer. I’m interested in new apps that do interesting things. I also have an interest in data privacy. So when I heard that the Conservative Party had launched an app with a...
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تهدئة ماك بوك برو
My 15″ MacBook Pro gets very very hot. So hot that it’s actually uncomfortable to have it sat on your lap. So I was very happy to find out about smcFanControl, which allows you to manually set the fan...
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التطبيقات التي تعمل
What do I mean by “apps that work”? جيد, the most successful apps – those that really عمل for users, those that are used time and time again – are apps that make the best of what a mobile device can...
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بلدي قطع المسافات
Yesterday I attended the NESTA / Rewired State Make It Local hack day. Myself and five other developers were challenged to create something useful with local data in six hours. My contribution was “My...
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اختيارنا: "الجيل القادم من كتب رقمية"
Publishing has had many saviours in recent years. Apple, Amazon and Google have all been touted as potential messiahs by an industry desperate to work out its role in an uncharted digital world. Big...
View ArticleA good idea for an app
I run an app development company. Hardly a day goes by without someone telling me they’ve had “a good idea for an app” – usually just before asking me to develop it for them. The problem is, very few...
View Articleلماذا ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] evaluates to “10″ in JavaScript
This comes from a popular question on Stack Overflow. Given the popularity of the question, the fact that it is now closed and the fact that the highest-ranked answer there is a little imprecise, I’ve...
View ArticleBill Gates predicts the future in 2005
One of our clients came across this yesterday: Bill Gates predicting the future, in a 2005 edition of The Guardian. “You’ll be able to use the camera to take a picture of a sign in a foreign country...
View ArticleIgnored keypresses when typing on iPad
The iPad has a reputation for being difficult to type on. It’s generally accepted that the iPad is okay for short emails and notes, but is not suited to longer documents. The anecdotal consensus seems...
View Articleشروط الترخيص iBooks و المؤلف أبل
I’m surprised by the fuss about Apple’s iBooks Author licensing terms. The terms prevent you from selling your iBooks Author-created works outside of the iBooks Store (although they can be distributed...
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