Browsing Apple

Senuti Free OS X app for copying your songs off an iPod or iPhone into your iTunes Library. Handy for recovering lost songs after a crash or converting your old G5 into a coffee table. 

Afloat A Leopard app that adds a few extra options to Cocoa application Window menus, allowing you to do things like keep specific windows on top regardless of which application has focus. (via a tweet) 

Validator app for OS X Linked everywhere a while back. Handy for days when the W3C’s “Validate by file upload” feature appears to be hosed (today seems to be one such day) or when you’re offline (say, traveling). Drag and drop to validate local files couldn’t be easier. 

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App Store: I’m out. Fraser Speirs’ reaction to Apple’s anti-competitive rejection of an iPhone app. John Gruber has more to say. If left unaddressed this does not bode well for the future of the platform. 

Go to Hell-vetica A comparison of the baselines of Apple’s default and Adobe’s Helvetica Neue. Hoping someone out there has encountered this problem before and discovered a workaround. 

Disable iTunes Store links Now I’m as capitalist as the next guy but removing the preference that allowed disabling what is essentially useless interface clutter was not the funnest update ever. (Interestingly, Apple’s own default spellcheck flags “funnest” as a misspelling and suggests “funniest” as an alternative. Is Apple marketing composing their copy in Word?) 

Cappuccino Objective-C for the web. I stand by my previous assessment. Basolutely sinane. 

Beta testing on iPhone 2.0 Craig provides a fairly detailed explanation of the steps required to build and distribute an iPhone app to beta testers. 

Build a simple RSS reader for iPhone NDA-schmeNDA. (via)