Further Gravatar Goodness

My company has just launched an iPhone app which finds pictures for your address-book contacts. This brings the benefits of my popular OS X Address Book plugin to those who don’t have a Mac. For the impatient, it’s available now in the iTunes store.

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Gravatars for OS X Address Book now on Github

Announcing that source code for the Gravatars for OS X Address Book plugin is now available. [...]

Annoying bug in Quartz PDFContext font handling

I’ve been battling a PDF-generation problem on iOS for the last couple of days: PDFs generated on iPhone or iPad using the Quartz PDFContext Apple supply cause an error to pop up and then don’t look right in Adobe Reader. I had presumed it to be a problem in my code, but have now found [...]

Porting apps to iPad

My business iPad arrived last Thursday, and I spent the first few days absorbing the feel of the built-in apps and thinking about how to alter my existing iPhone apps so that they fit in with the iPad idioms.

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Revised Gravatars Plugin

Phil has updated the OS X Address Book plugin for Gravatars to handle mixed-case email addresses. [...]

Everyone's doing it…

…so I may as well join in, and post an opinion of the iPad before I’ve seen or touched it.

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Apple Customer Experience Could Use Some Work

My preceding post documents my problems buying a MacBook Pro from the online Apple Store UK. I find it rather confusing that this was allowed to happen.

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The MacBook Pro Saga

For the impatient, Bish (a chap at work), has helpfully provided the following edited form of the saga:

“So basically: you ordered a MacBook Pro from Apple, and they’re going to deliver it.”

The rest of you can read on.

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Podcast episode 3 stuff

I promised to write about some bugs in Apple’s iPhone security sample application. The ones I noticed are in this file, in the routine getHashBytes:.

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Stealing usability from Apple

Apple’s OS X, which I use for most things at home, has a cool feature on its ‘dashboard’ which allows a webpage or fragment thereof to be displayed as a ‘widget’.  Ubuntu comes with a similar ‘dashboard’ thing; Compiz fusion knows it as ‘Widget Later’.  I was unable to find a web-viewing widget installed with [...]

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