280 North have announced their new product: Atlas, a full-featured visual IDE running in the browser for building “desktop class” web applications. What’s impressive about Atlas, is that it’s almost a complete port of Apple’s Xcode and Interface Builder; the paragdims and visuals are very close. Most of the founders of 280 North comes from [...]

Some say it’s a hack, I say it’s being pragmatic.

Mitch Allen, Palm’s Software CTO, gives a preview into application development with the Mojo SDK.

Daniel Sandler has started an interesting experiment: using Twitter for blog comments. Like him, I agree that blog comments are no more the place where discussion happens so it needs to be done differently.

Microsoft spends more on R&D than any other company in the technology business; last year the spend ran to more than $8bn – four times that of Google and around 10 times greater than Apple’s equivalent budget. I wonder what for? Nothing real comes out of those labs anyway and as the author says: Even [...]

Saul Hansell from the New York Times about the book “iPhone: The Missing Manual” Here is something that did surprise me: The most popular edition of this book isn’t on paper or the PDF file that O’Reilly Media also sells. It is the downloadable application for the iPhone.

Lessons learned from 30 million application downloads.

Good coverage from Ars Technica of Safari 4 major features. I’ve been using it for a couple of days and so far, I like the new tab layout, the speed improvement and the “top sites” feature. Of course, it reminds me Google Chrome but I guess it’s a form of flattery Apple rip something off [...]

An systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the console found in Quake. Quickly indispensable!

I’m out of luck. This week-end my MacBook Pro died of the insidious NVIDIA bug plaguing all machines manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008. Quoting the Apple support page about the issue: In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging [...]