Posts by astrosmash

Quote: Originally Posted by LighteningKid  I wish I knew how the programming logic would work to even cause an error like that... some sort of mistake in censoring logic that's inconsistent in different areas of the...

They're not reaching out to "select developers". A number of people's purchases failed with an error message on the last step of the transaction, after they had added the ticket to their cart and entered their payment info. Apple's...

It sounds like Luba Goy doing the voice-over in that video.

Wow, that is an incredibly beautiful machine.

I encourage everyone to download and try out this software. It's a great reminder of the crap people have to put up with on other platforms. No retina graphics. It's slow. Pinch to zoom is wonky. Search results are not centered on...

When pigs fly.   There's very little doubt they've worked on porting OS X to ARM.  Why wouldn't they?  I'm sure there are much more interesting projects they are working on that will never see the light of...

Anything is more rugged than the cheap plastic Nexus 7. Mine only lasted a couple of months of light use. Asus has severe quality control problems. The Nexus 7 glass can become separated from the case, and when that happens the screen...

Neat hack, but mostly pointless. When the 1st iPhone and iPod touch were released then Jailbreaked, we saw a flood of really excellent 3rd party software for those devices. The Apple TV has been Jailbreaked for awhile, but where...

Here's a screenshot of an app I wrote for browsing the file system: Notice the path bar just above file list. Normally, it shows the path to the current folder, just like the regular Finder path bar. But, once we enter the...

Here we are at version 3 of WebOS, on its fastest hardware yet, and it's still slow, buggy, and power hungry. The UI is pretty, as usual, but it's still a mess under the surface. WebOS was a hail mary attempt from Palm; after years...