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John Siracusa on OS X Snow Leopard: Got all that? A nearly two-year development cycle, but no new features. Major new frameworks for developers, but few new bugs. Significant changes to the core OS, but more reliability. And a franchise rejuvenation with few user-visible changes. It’s enough to turn a leopard white.

I know this. Put an iPhone into my hands, and I want to build software for it. There is just something about this device that compels me. I want to write something for it, even if I end up being the only user of my creation. I never have this reaction when I interact with [...]

So I got an iPhone 3G last Friday. Initial thoughts: The screen is absolutely gorgeous. The Exchange integration works as advertised. I’m now getting my work emails / calendar events pushed to my phone. The challenge now is not to become a slave of my email. You quickly take the GPS functionality for granted. Got [...]

I have now had my PowerBook for a little more than two weeks. Like I said in my previous post, I am very impressed with the design and build quality of the machine. First, the obligatory photos. I bought an STM glove and a booq Mamba XS laptop bag to carry the notebook around. If [...]

I bought a PowerBook G4 12” on Monday. I’ve been meaning to buy a mac for a while. My old PC is a PIII (600MHz, overclocked to 800MHz) that dates back to the year 2000. It’s served me well, but I suspect that it will now turn into a test development server or a box [...]