2002–2007
578 posts
2007 131
December 2007
- Gina Keating, Ace Reporter
- Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such
- ‘message:’ URLs in Leopard Mail
- Anti-Aliasing on the iPhone
November 2007
October 2007
- Happy Halloween, Savvy?
- Shipping Means Prioritizing
- Blue in the Face
- I Believe in Murphy’s Law
- Leopard
- Feedery
- Family
- Everything’s Coming Up Milhouse
- Let the Tea Leaf Reading Begin
- The iPhone and Web Apps
- Pre-Order Leopard Via DF Amazon Affiliate Links
- Total Music, Uh-Huh
- The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’
- Cancel Computer
- Forever Is a Long Time
- A Solomonic Solution to Leopard’s Dock Problem
- The New Zunes
September 2007
- New iPhone 1.1.1 Features, Which May or May Not Be Old News to iPod Touch Owners
- More on the Amazon MP3 Store
- Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica
- The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader
- Actually, Not Much Better at All This Late Than Never
- Notes and Observations Regarding Apple’s Announcements From ‘The Beat Goes On’ Special Event, Which, Inexplicably, I Didn’t Bother to Publish Two Weeks Ago When They Were Relevant
- An Important Public Service Announcement Regarding Marker Felt on the iPhone
- Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From the iPod Touch Features Guide
- The Ringtones Racket
- Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy
- Scratch That Its
- I’ll Show You ‘Subpar’
- The Price Cut Heard Round the World
- That Product Transition
- It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse
August 2007
- Rethinking Email
- Itso
- Feedback
- C4[1] in a Nut
- C4[1] Photoset on Flickr
- Clipboard and Text Selection : iPhone :: Arrow Keys : Original Macintosh
- Fake Steve, Unmasked
- Dateline NBC’s Report on Stolen iPods
- Taking Stock
July 2007
- Scott Moritz and TheStreet.com’s Million iPhone La‑La Land
- Regarding the Daring Fireball RSS Feed
- BusinessWeek: ‘Taking the iPhone Apart’
- iSuppli
- iPhone Fonts
- Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
- ‘OS X iPod’ Nonsense
- Selected Wi-Fi Network Names My iPhone Discovered While I Walked to the Grocery Store Yesterday
- Regarding OS X-Based iPods
- On Top
- Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for Apple Mail
- Jackass of the Week: MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan
- Josh Quittner Returns His iPhone
- The New Leopard Dock and the HIG
June 2007
- iPhone First Impressions
- Acting Up
- Regarding the 80 GB iPhone Capacity in the Activation and Sync Video
- iPhone Doubter of the Year
- Straws, Grasping Thereat
- New High-Water Mark in iPhone Jackassery
- Apple Cynic Watch: Slate’s Jack Shafer
- Exchange Exchange
- WWDC 2007 Keynote News
- An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard
- The High-Resolution 17-Inch MacBook Pro
- iPhone: Using Cell Towers for Positioning?
- Regarding iTunes Plus Metadata
- Taps
- iPhone SDK, iPhone SDK! Wherefore Art Thou iPhone SDK?
May 2007
- Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire
- Enjackass
- Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree
- Regarding Harry McCracken’s Departure From PC World
- New Shirt Schedule
- The iPhone’s Funny Price
April 2007
- Google Lucky Search Scripts for ThisService
- Interview: Dino Dai Zovi
- Coda
- In My World
- Regarding the Membership Drive
- Membership Drive and Contest Reminder
- Another Look at These Swell T-Shirts
- Bottleneck
- The Limited Edition Swap Meat DF T-Shirt
- Some Facts About AAC
- A Wee Bit More on AAC, Ogg, and MP3
- Apple Computer
- A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer
- EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music
March 2007
- T-Shirt Upgrade for Recent Membership Sign-Ups
- Rip This Joint
- The New Daring Fireball T-Shirts
- Regarding the Members-Only Feeds
- Creating New Text Files From the Finder’s Contextual Menu
- The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive
- A Few ‘Deal With It’ Follow-Up Points
- Deal With It
- LogoMaid Rips Off Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits Logo, and Then Things Get Weird
- JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder
- Like a Sponge
- Let’s Have a Panel on What We Didn’t Like About SXSW 2007
- Show Me
- Blank Slate
February 2007
- Regarding Dori Smith’s Comparison of Gender Diversity Among Speakers at Web Conferences to the Authors of Bestselling JavaScript Books
- Regarding Kottke’s Piece on Gender Diversity at Web Conferences
- Would Apple Mix DRM and Non-DRM Music at the iTunes Store?
- Fair Enough
- Using Dynamic Scripting Languages for Mac OS X Application Development
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’
- SXSW 2007: The Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer
- Command, Option, Control
- Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’
- More Crap From Rob Enderle on the iPhone
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates
- Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton
January 2007
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December 2006
- I Sold My App Through MacHeist and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
- Getting the Size of Your Display With AppleScript, the Lazy Way
- The Iniquities of the Selfish
- Microsoft Rips Off Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon
- Conjectural Transcript of the Upcoming Negotiations Between Apple and Universal Music
- OmniVapor
November 2006
- Did Microsoft Copy the Wrong iPod?
- Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere
- DMG Kernel Panic Security Issue
- Pinprick
- Jackass of the Week: Larry Seltzer
- ‘Beta’ Is Not an Excuse
- I’d Buy That for a Dollar
- Stikkit
- Why Is Adobe Soundbooth Intel-Only?
October 2006
- Can I Get an ‘Hallelujah’ for Auto-Completion With the Esc and F5 Keys?
- Yet More Jackasses: Neal Mueller and the Business Editors of The Washington Post
- Jackass of the Week: Rush Limbaugh
- My Jackass Stamp Is Running Out of Ink
- Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders
- Feed Me
- Membership Renewal
- Using Keyboard Maestro to Intercept Keyboard Shortcuts Usurped by the System
- Processing Processes
- How to Determine if a Certain App Is Running Using AppleScript and Perl
- BBColors 1.0
- Some Assembly Required
- Brand New
September 2006
- New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco: Still Dead; Kieren McCarthy: Still a Jackass
- Jackass of the Week: Kieren McCarthy
- The AirPort Security Update and the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack
- Regarding the Features and Capabilities of the Various Fifth Generation iPods
- Regarding Analyst Speculation on iPod Pricing
- High on Vapor Fumes
- Showtime: The New iPods
- Showtime: The Big Picture
- Buy New iPods From Amazon and Support Daring Fireball
- Lies, Damned Lies, and MacBook Wi-Fi Hacks
- Update on the MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit Challenge
- An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch
August 2006
- Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
- A Bit More Regarding the MacBook Wireless Security Saga
- The Curious Case of the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack
- Jackass of the Week: Paul Thurrott
- Site Preferences and T-Shirts
- Regarding the Hardware Announcements at WWDC 2006
- WWDC Prelude
- Highly Selective
- Regarding Brian Krebs’s Reporting on the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit
July 2006
- Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft’s ‘Zune’
- Standing in Line With Mr. Jimmy
- The Mac OS X Tipping Point
June 2006
- Hot Off the Press
- Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive
- Why Apple Won’t Open Source Its Apps
- And Oranges
May 2006
- Confidence Game
- ‘Web Kit’ vs. ‘WebKit’
- Tim Bray on iCal
- The Last Pixel
- Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser
- Goal
- Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize Web Server Addresses
- More Aperture Dirt
- Good Journalism
April 2006
- Feed Me
- Aperture Dirt
- More on NSTextView’s ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste
- When ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks
- Cringely’s Machinations
- Initiative
- New T-Shirts
- O’Grady v. Superior Court
- Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo
- Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend
- Windows: The New Classic
- ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates
March 2006
- Adios Avie
- Stubborn Chronicle Staff Writer Is an Ignoramus
- The iPod Juggernaut
- Speaking at SXSW
- The Annals of Journalism
- Switching Is Afoot
- Familiarity Breeds a User Base
February 2006
January 2006
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December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
- Membership Numbers
- BBEdit and TextWrangler CSS Syntax Checker 1.0.1
- Notes on Membership Information
- Prizes for 2005 Membership Drive
- If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Time for New Apple Product Announcements
- The Life
- Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today’s Special Event
- Introducing Joyent
- Membership Renewal 2005
September 2005
- The English-Likeness Monster
- Rhymes With Ditty
- Wrong Folder Returned by ‘path to’ Command in System Events Tell Blocks
- The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
- BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0
August 2005
July 2005
- Location Validation in the Dashboard Weather Widget
- About the Footnotes
- Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket?
- Plugged Leaks
June 2005
- Shuffling
- Hacking Apple’s Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update
- Making Book
- Together We Can Rule the Galaxy
- Bombs Away
- Classic Not Supported on Intel-Based Macs
- I’ll See You Intel
- Intel-Apple Odds and Ends
- Tiger Adoption Rate
May 2005
April 2005
- The Tiger Details List
- The Fish Rots From the Head
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia
- The Other Amazons
- Fun for the Whole Family
- It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word ‘Replace’ Is
- Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers
March 2005
- Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window, Redux
- Pre-Order Tiger From Amazon
- Caching Out
- Font Caches Gone Wild
- Login Delays and Damaged Font Caches on Mac OS X 10.3
- On the Discovery Ruling in ‘Apple v. Does’
- On the Credibility of The New York Times
- If The New York Times Jumped Off a Bridge
- Nerve Touching
- Kill ‘nav-commenters.gif’
February 2005
- FireWire Hysteria
- How to Create an ‘App of the Year’
- Apps of the Year, 2004
- Marking Subscriptions as ‘Private’ in Bloglines
- Members-Only RSS Feeds Now Using HTTP Authentication
- Subscription Small Print
- Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service
January 2005
- Promotional Consideration
- Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections, Several of Which Aren’t Substantial Enough to Constitute a Full Article by Themselves, but Which Were Assembled Together Mainly as an Excuse to Use This Preposterously Long Title
- Small, Cheap, and Without a Display
- The Rumor Game
- Plugging Leaks
- Apple to Announce ‘iWork’ Office Suite?
2004 95
December 2004
- Software Update Tips and Voodoo
- Markdown 1.0.1
- Markdown Licensing
- Paging Jennifer Beals
- Amazon Debauchery
- Flash Gordon
November 2004
- On the Placement of Linked List Content
- MDJ Reports Tim Bucher No Longer at Apple
- The True Story of Audion
- Additional Poofery
- Examining the Consistency of Your Poofs
October 2004
- iPod Mania
- iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition
- Does This Brushed Metal Stuff Really Even Matter?
- Today’s Theme: Themes
- Brushed Metal and the HIG
- PayPal Outage
- Gruber for Hire
- Still Not Much of a Joke
- Some Joke
- T-shirts Redux
- BBEdit Soft Wrap Toggling
- ‘Rename Active Document’ Script for BBEdit
September 2004
- Windows Versus the World
- For Whatever Reasons
- Traffic and Readership
- Sponsor This
- Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window
- BBEdit 8
- MSN Music ‘iPod’ Help Page Updated Again
- MT Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8
- You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as Long as It’s Black
- We’ve Never Even Heard of This ‘iTunes Music Store’ of Which You Speak
August 2004
- Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8
- Markdown 1.0
- OmniWeb 5.0
- Why 2004 Won’t Be Like 1984
- Things Unmentioned in the ‘Art of the Parlay’ Article, but of Which You Must Take My Word Were Left Out Because They Were Beside the Point, and Not Because I Was Unaware of Them
- The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share
- The Perl Email Project
July 2004
- Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding RealNetworks’ Harmony
- Properly Attired
- Awarded
- Membership Keys
- Spotlight on Spotlight
- Status
- Konfab Confab
- Multiple Shirt Orders
- The Last-Minute Push
June 2004
- Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
- Introducing the Linked List
- More Membership Prizes
- Membership Giveaways
- The Location Field Is the New Command Line
- Questions Regarding the Shirts and Membership
- Something Daring
- So Witty
- Misregistered
- Security Update
- Broken Windows
May 2004
- Security Cannot Be Spun
- An Ounce of Prevention
- About the Help Viewer Security Update, and, Also, Why I Don’t Think You Need Paranoid Android
- Using the ‘telnet’ URI Protocol to Delete Files
- Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers With RCDefaultApp
- Movable Type 3.0 Plug-In Compatibility
- Like a Lead Zeppelin
- Writing for Google
- What to Do When Your Energy Saver Prefs Panel Won’t Load
- Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers
- Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re Good Links, I Swear
April 2004
- If It Ain’t Broke
- Crying Wolf
- Preferences
- Sundry ‘Spray-On’ Clarifications and Corrections
- Ronco Spray-On Usability
March 2004
February 2004
- Mailsmith ‘Send Now’ Menu Key Defense
- 48 Hours
- Setting Empty File and Creator Types
- Scripting File and Creator Types
- OmniWeb 5 Public Beta
January 2004
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December 2003
- Rob Enderle: Putting the ‘Anal’ in ‘Analyst’
- Inflammable Means Flammable?
- Losers, Weepers
- Old Habits
- PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit
- Graphic Communication
- More Accurate (but, Admittedly, Less Sensational) Alternative Stencil Slogans for the ‘Neistat Brothers’
- Panther Adoption Rate
November 2003
- Ejection
- Siracusa on Panther
- Crufty the Clown
- Eggs and Irons
- BBEdit 7.1
- Panther Text Rendering
- SmartyPants 1.4.1
- External Editors in Xcode
- Run Panther Run
October 2003
- Command-Tab
- Browser Stats
- Closed Is Open
- Pop Culture
- Dudley More
- Various Links Related to Words That End With ‘ck’
- Dell’s Dud
September 2003
- Miscellanea
- ‘Select Word’ Script Addenda
- Interview: Michael Tsai
- ‘Select Word’ Script for BBEdit
- AppleScript ‘Whose’ Clauses
- IBM Compatible
- The White Stripes
- Using CVS with BBEdit
- VapoRub
- VaporOffice
August 2003
- Dynomite!
- Good Times
- The Daring Fireball Power 1 List
- On Newsstands Now
- Text Editing News
- The One and Only Mac OS X Extensions Folder
- Panic Room
- Microtech’s Crashtacular Zio Driver
- Crayolas
- I Would Not Feel So All Alone
- Mailsmith, an iBook, and Glider Pro Walk Into a Bar
July 2003
- Bang for Your Buck
- Look Out Below
- Market Share
- ‘Grab HTML’ Script for BBEdit, Redux
- Finding Avie
- The Good, the Bad, and the Avie
- Independent Days
- Textiles
- Casady & Greene
June 2003
- SmartyPants 1.4
- You Put Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
- Flipping the Bird
- Drop a Dime
- Very Brief Comments Regarding Certain of Today’s WWDC Announcements
- You Have New Mail
- Internet Explorer
- TrackBack Addenda
- Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle
- Noted
- Looney Tunes
May 2003
- Waferbaby Interview
- Steaming Pile
- JackAssassin
- Zeldman Reloaded
- SmartyPants 1.3
- Safari’s Unscriptable Tabs
- Much Ado About Click-Through
- The Problems With Click-Through
- More iTunes Minutiae
- Interface Details: iTunes vs. Safari
- Et Tu iTunes?
April 2003
- Observations Regarding iTunes 4
- RTF to Plain Text Translator
- Stoned
- Accommodating
- Command Line Fun
- Sticky Business Redux: Web Browsers
- The Sticky Business of Page Layout
- Qwerty
- Translation
- Siracusa on the Finder
- Get What You Pay For
March 2003
- Interview: Brent Simmons
- The Party’s Over
- Bitmap Like It’s 1989
- Anti-Anti-Aliasing
- Code Monkey
- SmartyPants 1.2.1
- Anti-Aliasing
- Aliasing
- I Love It Because It’s Trash
- Not Dead Yet
February 2003
- Banana Jr.
- SmartyPants 1.2
- We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here
- Wrangly
- New Trick for Script Menu
- Larry, Moe, Curly
- Install Like It’s 1991
- Stinkmail
- Short and Curlies
- Popularity Contest
- Inconsistencies
- Flowers Are for Chumps
- Konfabulous
- Operatic
- SmartyPants 1.1
- When in Rome
- Enkode This
- Save and Restore Safari URLs
- Remember IE?
January 2003
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December 2002
- That Sort of Thing
- Rascal
- Developer Goodies
- bbdiff 1.1
- Welch and Tsai on the Finder
- Bare Bones Disclaimer
- BBEdit 7 Review
- Finder Reflux
- Hackass
- Not the Eskimo
- Snow Day
- I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter
November 2002
- Thanksfindering
- That Finder Thing
- Dmg
- Do You Smell Something?
- A Valid Point
- SmartyPants 1.0
- Journaling Details
- Crow
- Cruft
- Victors, Spoils, Dumb-Ass Voters
- Wine
October 2002
- Perl for Dummies (And Apple Installer Engineers)
- Stereotypical Fun
- Valid RSS 0.91 Feeds From Movable Type
- Switched
- Exposed
- Journal to the Center of the Earth
- Stepping on eWeek’s Blue Suede Shoes
- Listen
- Microsoft Make-Up
- Microsoft’s Answer to Ellen Feiss
- Labels X
- MacSFTP
- Fork You
- Only Funny Because It’s True
- Matters Unix
- Movable Type Smart Quotes, Now With Retsin
- Linktoberfest
September 2002
- Feed Me
- Welcome, Indeed
- The Annotated Workspace
- VersionCrapper User Reviews
- On Joel on Software
- I.P. Freely
- Siracusa on Jaguar
- A Brief Word on Netscape 7.0