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BlogsTags > blogVisualization of the Week: CIA rendition flights of terror suspectsBy Jenn WebbMay 23, 2013 The Rendition Project, a collaboration between academics at Kent and Kingston universities and the NGO Reprieve, has developed an interactive visualization of the extent of CIA rendition flights of terror suspects. In a post at The Guardian’s Datablog, James Ball … Cultural capital goes commercialBy Julia ErrensMay 2, 2013 It wasn’t one of my proudest moments when, a week before Christmas last year, I was hunched over my smartphone towards the back of the famous Hamley’s Toy Store on London’s Regent Street, composure tethered to an elusive bar of … Visualization of the Week: Sequester cuts by stateBy Jenn WebbMarch 6, 2013 The sequester went into effect in the U.S. on Friday, and media outlets are busy fleshing out practical consequences and looking for solutions. Ryan Murphy at The Texas Tribune dug into the state-level data released by the White House (in … How will the elmcity service scale? Like the web!
By Jon UdellDecember 22, 2010 A blog feed is just a special kind of web page. Anybody can create a blog and publish its feed at some URL. Why not calendars too? Strata Gems: Five data blogs you should read
By Edd DumbillDecember 7, 2010 From deep-diving startup founders to national newspapers, there's a rich vein of wisdom and information in blogs about data. Here's five to get your reading list started. Four short links: 6 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 6, 2010 Apple I Basic as Mac OS X Scripting Language -- great hack. The “apple1basic” executable is a statically recompiled version of the original binary. All code is running natively. It plugs right into UNIX stdin and stdout. You can pass it the filename of a BASIC program to run. You can run BASIC programs like shell scripts. (via Hacker... New version of jQuery is released today
By Matthew DavidOctober 16, 2010 The latest version of jQuery is released with some big speed improvements. Why blogging still mattersBy Mac SlocumOctober 12, 2010 During an interview at Web 2.0 Expo NY, Anil Dash's response to an offhand question hit at the heart of blogging's continued importance. Why blogging still matters 
By Mac SlocumOctober 12, 2010 During an interview at Web 2.0 Expo NY, Anil Dash's response to an offhand question hit at the heart of blogging's continued importance. Microsoft donates Template, Data link and Globalization Plugins to jQuery
By Matthew DavidOctober 5, 2010 Microsoft makes a big donation to the jQuery team with Templates, Data Link and Globalization plugins The top 10 JavaScript libraries that compete against jQuery
By Matthew DavidOctober 4, 2010 Top 10 JS Libraries to compete against jQuery My feed
By Rick JelliffeNovember 14, 2009 A couple of people have asked again this week for the RSS feed address for my blog. Here is is: I believe you can get the individual feeds for other bloggers on OReilly sites using the same URL and the... Posterous: The Copy-and-Post Revolution in (Micro) Blogging
By Mark SigalNovember 4, 2009 A friend of mine, who has achieved repeated success in high-tech startup land, said that if you want to be successful, focus on segments where <10% of the crowd currently adopts the solution, and by virtue of dramatically simplifying the approach, you can toggle adoption rates to closer to 90%. Enter Posterous, a micro-blogging tool (it's free) that does a few things really well. Computer Security BasicsBy Rick LehtinenJuly 17, 2009 Hi, It is about time I got started on this blog. Computer Security Basics was a landmark book when it was first published in the early 90s. I was honored to have the chance to update it in 2006. Now... TapIt4Me: A Serious Productivity Tool for Heavy iPhone Email UsersBy Dave AielloFebruary 1, 2009 One of the secrets of MacOS ninjas are shortcut utilities such as TextExpander, TextMate, and TypeIt4Me. These programs allow you to type abbreviations that are automatically replaced by words, sentences, or whole paragraphs. Apps like these have been absent from... The New Father in the NurseryBy Dave AielloJanuary 30, 2009 My wife gave birth to our second son, Peter, last week. The proud parents are both iPhone users, so you'd expect us to have an iPhone-based solution for announcing the big news to our friends and family. Although we tried... On Vibration
By Erica SadunJanuary 23, 2009 Making an iPhone vibrate requires nothing more than a simple call to Audio Services. Deciding on when your application should buzz is a different matter. The code for producing that short buzz effect is this: Opt-In Complexity
By Chris AdamsonJanuary 16, 2009 It's an interesting trait that the Mac and iPhone stacks work this way, opting in to complexity and keeping the higher-level APIs sparser and simpler, and you have to wonder whether it's a conscious design decision or a happy accident. Plenty of Choices in Weather AppsBy Dave AielloJanuary 15, 2009 With the weather as brutal as it's likely to get this winter in much of the Continental United States, now is a great time to take a quick look at the leading free weather apps for your iPhone and iPod... Who says Lite apps don't work?!
By Raven ZacharyJanuary 13, 2009 For the first time in the history of the App Store, the same iPhone application holds the #1 spot in both the Top 25 Paid and Free apps lists. The app is iShoot by Ethan Nicholas. It's a fairly straightforward... Thinking about table selection: Persistent or Active?
By Erica SadunJanuary 9, 2009 A colleague recently had his application rejected from App Store because he used what I can only call a noun-verb approach. He allowed items in the table to be selected, and highlighted upon selection, and then provided buttons that used that choice to perform an action. His application was rejected, with the rejection citing the following from the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: We Probably Aren't the Target Market for the iPhone AnymoreBy Dave AielloJanuary 9, 2009 I've been cheerleading for iPhone tethering since this past summer. In spite of that AT&T and Apple have failed to announce it. With Macworld Expo 2009 almost over, I'm beginning to wonder if Apple considers this feature a maybe-someday feature... Is Tweetie an iTunes App Store Anomaly?By Dave AielloJanuary 5, 2009 I am really impressed with Tweetie, the multi-account Twitter client iPhone application. I find it bizarre that Loren Brichter (the developer) has created a true, multi-account Twitter client for the iPhone and there's still not a native application for the... iPhone Activities @ Macworld
By Raven ZacharyJanuary 5, 2009 Headed to Macworld? There are number of iPhone-related talks and events taking place at and surrounding Macworld this year. This is liklely not complete list, but I provide some of the items that stand out. This information is collected from... Defining legal input characters
By Erica SadunJanuary 2, 2009 I sometimes use a little trick to ensure that a UITextInputField only accepts a certain subset of characters. Say for example, you want to ensure that a user enters only letters and spaces. A UITextField delegate can catch each character as its typed and decide whether to add items to the active text field. Here's how. Wave Front OBJ File Loader for iPhoneBy Bill DudneyDecember 31, 2008 Many years ago (way back in college) I wrote a 3D stress visualization application for one of my professors. It was my very first Cocoa application. Written on a NeXT Cube in Display Post Script. Wow, was it cool... The App Store Effect
By Paul KafasisDecember 27, 2008 Snapper-brand lawn mowers are expensive. Many Snapper products cost thousands of dollars, and even their simplest push mower is hundreds of dollars more than some competing products. Snapper lawn mowers are not cheap. What they are, however, is reliable. They're... Apple's New Position on App Acceptance
By Raven ZacharyDecember 27, 2008 As best as we can piece together, Apple changed its criteria for iPhone application acceptance sometime in early December. The first we heard of this change was from Sam Magdalein, creator of Pull My Finger. Earlier this month, he received... App Store Glitches
By Paul KafasisDecember 21, 2008 Last Monday, Rogue Amoeba's first iPhone product Radioshift Touch was finally released through the App Store. After many months, we're very happy to have finally shipped. Doing so, however, has highlighted a few glitches in the App Store that developers... App Store Glitches
By Paul KafasisDecember 20, 2008 Last Monday, Rogue Amoeba's first iPhone product Radioshift Touch was finally released through the App Store. After many months, we're very happy to have finally shipped. Doing so, however, has highlighted a few glitches in the App Store that developers... Converting Points and Rectangles to Strings and back
By Erica SadunDecember 19, 2008 Two core graphics structures, the CGRect and the CGPoint, play a large role in iPhone development. They are used to position items on-screen and to set their size. Every time you use a UIView, you can work with its frame, its center, and its bounds--all of which use these two structures to handle geometry. Here's a quick review of the structures in question. Converting Points and Rectangles to Strings and back
By Erica SadunDecember 19, 2008 Two core graphics structures, the CGRect and the CGPoint, play a large role in iPhone development. They are used to position items on-screen and to set their size. Every time you use a UIView, you can work with its frame, its center, and its bounds--all of which use these two structures to handle geometry. Here's a quick review of the structures in question. Why Didn't Apple Declare Victory at Macworld Expo?By Dave AielloDecember 18, 2008 Like everybody else, I saw Apple's announcement that they would end their participation in Macworld Expo after Macworld Expo 2009 and was not surprised. The real issue about this and all trade shows is do they make sense in 2009,... Why Didn't Apple Declare Victory at Macworld Expo?By Dave AielloDecember 18, 2008 Like everybody else, I saw Apple's announcement that they would end their participation in Macworld Expo after Macworld Expo 2009 and was not surprised. The real issue about this and all trade shows is do they make sense in 2009,... Mind the Seadragon
By Oliver BreidenbachDecember 15, 2008 Aargh! Now I have Microsoft software on my iPhone. And of course it is as ugly as something designed by a city council commitee and totally unintuitive. But don't send in the Knights just yet: what Seadragon does is pretty... Mind the Seadragon
By Oliver BreidenbachDecember 15, 2008 Aargh! Now I have Microsoft software on my iPhone. And of course it is as ugly as something designed by a city council commitee and totally unintuitive. But don't send in the Knights just yet: what Seadragon does is pretty... Seeing the Power of the iPhone as a Gaming Platform Through the Eyes of KidsBy Dave AielloDecember 12, 2008 On Thanksgiving my wife, son, and I ate dinner at my wife's parents' house. My brother-in-law and his family were also visiting my in-laws for dinner. After dinner I did a little experiment that showed me the power of the... Seeing the Power of the iPhone as a Gaming Platform Through the Eyes of KidsBy Dave AielloDecember 12, 2008 On Thanksgiving my wife, son, and I ate dinner at my wife's parents' house. My brother-in-law and his family were also visiting my in-laws for dinner. After dinner I did a little experiment that showed me the power of the... iPhone Apps Built By Retailers Coming Out Just in Time for the HolidaysBy Dave AielloDecember 11, 2008 In the run up to Christmas I became interested in the iPhone applications that several major retailers have been rolling out. I think the Amazon Mobile iPhone app provides some useful functionality and will stay on my iPhone. Target's iPhone... Better late than never
By Oliver BreidenbachDecember 11, 2008 I've kept quiet for some time now, waiting and seeing what happens in the iPhone app market, making up my mind on how to get into the game. From the beginning I thought the environment that Apple created was not... Some App Store Answers
By Paul KafasisDecember 11, 2008 Back in June, a few weeks before the App Store opened, I posted a list of open questions for the App Store. Now, almost five months since the store opened, we've seen some answers. Let's look over those questions from... Lala's Potential iPhone App
By Paul KafasisDecember 11, 2008 Yesterday I posted about Lala.com over on the Rogue Amoeba weblog. You can read the full article, but in short, I discussed the very cool Lala.com music service, which offers several advantages over the iTunes Store. I'd certainly encourage you... iPhone Apps Built By Retailers Coming Out Just in Time for the HolidaysBy Dave AielloDecember 11, 2008 In the run up to Christmas I became interested in the iPhone applications that several major retailers have been rolling out. I think the Amazon Mobile iPhone app provides some useful functionality and will stay on my iPhone. Target's iPhone... Better late than never
By Oliver BreidenbachDecember 11, 2008 I've kept quiet for some time now, waiting and seeing what happens in the iPhone app market, making up my mind on how to get into the game. From the beginning I thought the environment that Apple created was not... Apple Loves Free Apps
By Raven ZacharyDecember 8, 2008 Apple has been focusing its recent iPhone marketing efforts on applications. This is an approach I am quite pleased with as it has tremendous strengths in regards to expressing the 'more than a phone' capabilities of the device. Application distribution... Some App Store Answers
By Paul KafasisDecember 7, 2008 Back in June, a few weeks before the App Store opened, a posted a list of open questions for the App Store. Now, almost five months since the store opened, we've seen some answers. Let's look over those questions from... Apple Loves Free Apps
By Raven ZacharyDecember 6, 2008 Apple has been focusing its recent iPhone marketing efforts on applications. This is an approach I am quite pleased with as it has tremendous strengths in regards to expressing the 'more than a phone' capabilities of the device. Application distribution... The case of the Missing MapKit
By Erica SadunDecember 5, 2008 While wading through the new 2.2 Frameworks, I suddenly noticed that MapKit, once a Private Framework was missing in action. MapKit, which was available until SDK 2.1, offered all kinds of utterly yummy features including Trip Players, Traffic tiles, Route Views and more. So what happened to MapKit? The case of the Missing MapKit
By Erica SadunDecember 5, 2008 While wading through the new 2.2 Frameworks, I suddenly noticed that MapKit, once a Private Framework was missing in action. MapKit, which was available until SDK 2.1, offered all kinds of utterly yummy features including Trip Players, Traffic tiles, Route Views and more. So what happened to MapKit? iPhone Apps Over $100
By Raven ZacharyNovember 30, 2008 Put aside the debate about $0.99 vs $1.99 on the App Store for a minute. How about $109.99 vs. $199.99?! There are currently 14 iPhone applications for sale on the US App Store for more than $100. While some of... 1 to 50 of 170 Next Stay Connected
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