Browsing Apple

Apple comes to its senses Anti-glare screens are now an option on the 15” MacBook Pro. Still no option on the separate LED displays. This will be my first computer upgrade in 10 years that hasn’t been accompanied by the purchase of a new monitor. 

Sweet Mac Setup Shawn “rhymes with Shaun” Blanc asked for a peak at my modest Mac setup. 

iPhone Stencil Kit With matching downloadable standard letter-sized template. Too freakin’ cool. (via) 

Cocos2d iPhone has come a long way since I looked at it for Horror Vacui. The addition of sprite sheets and better control over aliasing are especially welcome. The CocosDenshion sound engine looks promising too. 

Diary of an App Store Reviewer This fiction reads as plausible truth. Like I said, malicious compliance. 

Garrett Murray on App Store approval woes “Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing by farting apps… it just feels hostile to me. While I have plenty of great customers who have been raving about the app, all it takes is one little issue and it all comes crashing down.” 

Glims A Safari plugin that adds favicons to tabs, thumbnails to search results (using Thumbshots.org), dated download folders and plenty of other features. 

Git OS X Installer Easy-peasy, local-V-C. (via @themattharris) 

Selectively Disabling Downloaded-File Warnings in Leopard Eric is on the case! 

Cater to your Ego Garrett Murray gets into the iPhone app game with the gorgeous and appropriately named Ego, a vanity app that reports followers from Twitter, visitors from Mint (with the Ego Helper Pepper installed) and subscribers from Feedburner with support for more services planned.