Although the social component and Apple-staffed labs are two important reasons for developers to attend WWDC, early access to tech briefings has long been a motivating force for buying that expensive ticket.

Today, it looks like Apple introduced…

Although the social component and Apple-staffed labs are two important reasons for developers to attend WWDC, early access to tech briefings has long been a motivating force for buying that expensive ticket.

Today, Apple introduced a major chang…

We’ve received direct word and noted on Twitter that that Mike Culbert, a longtime Apple hardware engineer, has passed away after battling cancer. According to his friends, he was a “brilliant engineer, a wonderful human being.” He will be missed….

For years, iUI has been the gold standard of iOS web development. Dating back to 2007, iUI was initially created by Joe Hewett to simplify the development of iPhone web apps using an iPhone-style look and feel. It’s been stuck at its 0.4 release f…

Popup Window (US$5.99) provides an organizer utility for your desktop, enabling you to stick folders onto the edges of your screen and fold them in and out on demand. I loved the idea of this app although I ran into several problems when actually …

We don’t care that the falling phones are CG animated; we don’t even care that they have a hypothetical NFC patch on the back. This is a great video that put a smile on our faces.

We offer it to you as today’s No Comment. It’s done by the same s…

People love the idea of the Pebble watch. It’s an iOS-compatible display that sits on your wrist, so your iPhone can stay in your backpack, purse, or pocket. It’s a great way to keep light track of your notifications, and what’s going on in your l…

People love the idea of the Pebble watch. It’s an iOS-compatible display that sits on your wrist, so your iPhone can stay in your backpack, purse, or pocket. It’s a great way to keep light track of your notifications, and what’s going on in your l…

On Friday, T-Mobile finally launched its iPhone line, offering some great deals along the way. Did you hop over and place a request for an iPhone 5? American customers now have more service choices than ever. From Cricket to Straight Talk, Virgin …

iOS/OS X internals guru Gwynne Raskind tipped me off to a much better way of creating associated object keys.

Until now, I’ve been doing this:

static const char nametag_key;
return objc_getAssociatedObject(self, (void *) &nametag_key);

Tur…