Apple on Wednesday mailed out its invitation to a Cupertino campus event next Thursday about its iPhone SDK. The intriguing part of the invitation is the promise of a roadmap for developers and for customers in the enterprise space.
According to fresh warnings by security vendor Intego, another Java vulnerability is attacking Macs that haven't been patched with Apple's Java for OS X Lion 2012-002 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7, released earlier this month. Meanwhile, the security analysts warned that many copies of older versions of MS Word haven't been patched and are being infected.
Adobe has long been known for its terrible installation process, both for its productivity applications such as Flash and for its professional creative products. However, with its Creative Cloud services and Adobe Labs beta, engineers say things will be better.
Almost any computing application will have features you've never uncovered: That's why there are so many self-help computing books for dummies, or whatever publishers want to call users. However, some iOS apps offer completely different feature sets in portrait and landscape modes.
A Silicon Valley startup just released a useful iPhone/Touch app to help connect you with your data — the data inside your head. Called Forget, it can even help you remember that you've got an app for that, whatever "that" is.
According to game designer, developer and university professor, Ian Bogost, the brouhaha about Flash and Apple's mobile platforms reveals some disturbing trends in the computer development business.
When Steve Jobs late last week posted an open letter about Flash and Apple's relationship with Adobe there were questions on its impetus and its audience. Jobs' Thoughts on Flash letter said it was to the consumers, but some of the language, much of it, was aimed at a different constituency.
As users migrate to Snow Leopard they will find that AppleScript is less forgiving about date and time formatting. Formerly reliable scripts, years old, may fail.
Sessions at this month's iPhone Tech Talk in Seattle revealed differences in usage by age groups, according to a developer report from the conference.
Software Architects offers an Interface Builder plug-in that lets Mac developers more easily add the Cover Flow interface to their apps. I could cry!