The Apple Design Awards for 2006 are open for Mac Developers to submit their shipping apps. This is another good motivator for us who are developing Mac apps but are a bit perfectionist to actually release our apps. Beta apps and non-shipping apps are not eligible. A new requirement this year is that the app …

Apple released the 17″ MacBook Pro today which was a big surprise to me. Then again, Apple was at NAB so that is a good time for them to announce new hardware. I’ve currently got the 17″ 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. So let me do a quick comparison (this is the current 17″ MBP vs the …

Today I opened up my full-text RSS feed of Daring Fireball. I found out that John Gruber has quit his day job at Joyent and is now living “The Life”. (A term he invented and popularized which is now nicely fitting.) I love reading his stuff and I’m eagerly awaiting my DF t-shirt (the classic …

In the late 90s, like a lot of people, I was really into investing. I mean it was sort of effortless back then. You could almost throw darts and come out with at least a 20% return. Do some actual research and you could get 70% return. Things are more normal nowadays. One of the …

I used to really like to sleep. I’d get 8 hours on average. I’d be completely rested and wide awake all the time. But I always felt like I didn’t push myself enough. Like I was missing out. The past few weeks (probably more) I’ve pushed myself to the edge. Like they say in Firefly, …

Boot Camp makes it more compelling to buy a Mac nowadays, I think. I talked with a friend on Sunday whose Windows laptop is dying. Now he is thinking about adding a desktop Mac to go along with it, because of Boot Camp. He’ll run Windows and also OS X. I think he’s wanted to …

Well I finished my federal taxes and I realized I was getting a nice refund. Plus I had recently read today the brilliant article “Windows is the New Classic“. So I did what a good Mac enthusiast would do and finally bought a Daring Fireball membership! Now I’ve got access to the Full Article and …

No, Boot Camp is not the latest Ajax-enabled webapp from 37signals. (That’s Basecamp.) Boot Camp is Apple’s really late April Fool’s Joke. No, that’s not it either. Boot Camp is Apple’s 30th Anniversary surprise! It is an official Apple-supported way (currently in beta) to dual-boot an Intel Mac in both OS X and Windows XP. …

I’m doing something I’ve never done before, which always makes for a good learning experience, but sometimes can seem quite hard. I’m writing licensing code and also implementing the process around it. I’ve never actually charged for any software before in my life. And neither have any of the companies I’ve worked for! Well, that’s …