Retina display Mac OSX laptops →

3 months ago ～

So, it seems Apple’s Messages App is already building in support for Retina displays on the Mac. 

Rumors have even suggested that we might see our first Retina Display Macs in 2012. One early report claimed Apple was working on a 2880x1800 MacBook Pro for the middle of this year.

Can’t wait to play with those Retina powered laptops.

Mail tool for Rails developers →

3 months ago ～

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that’s arrived so far.

Super nifty tool, easy to install too.

Color web tools →

3 months ago ～

It’s not about this catastrophic iPhone application, it’s about color tools on the web.

A weekly e-mail digest for programmers. →

3 months ago ～

Email isn’t dead after all.

Status Code is a language agnostic roundup of the latest ideas, releases, trends, events and must-read articles from the field of software development.

Sent every Wednesday by Peter Cooper.

The best (to come) iPhone dock gets lasering →

3 months ago ～

1.2 millions US dollars raised (1 million the last time I’ve checked, a few days ago) and getting custom lasering. Kickstarter really is a money raising whore.

Path2 contact upload issue follow up →

3 months ago ～

So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.

Nice move.

Tweetbot available on iPad →

3 months ago ～

It was one of the first complain people had on Tweetbot for iPhone. Grab yours.

Boring default profile picture about to change →

3 months ago ～

Basecamp about to change that boring gray profile picture to something way more artsy. The funny thing is, I actually like it.

Forget your laptop password, go to jail. →

3 months ago ～

It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense.

Clever email marketing →

3 months ago ～

of course I still have to enter my credit card information before I can benefit from the free month.

Of course you do, but the email is nice. I can see some AB testing on those.

Bad behavior from a nice designed App →

3 months ago ～

Path uploads your full address book on their server, without asking or even warning you. Dave Morin (CEO) answered in the post saying they’ll change this, but my answer is:

1. It is important for services/companies to have as many email addresses in database as possible, whatever they are saying. It is worth a lot of money for them, for now or a later use (note: it also allows Path to tell you X has signed in, but they could easily achieve similar feature uploading hashes of the mails instead)
2. Many other apps do the same, without warning.

However I can’t stop myself from thinking how much of a bad behavior this is.

UIStoryboard Issues →

3 months ago ～

While working on this I found out you can’t have user defined relationships in StoryBoard. What a lack…

(Yes I had already blogged this link here)

Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery →

3 months ago ～

A very very nice article from 37signals about email delivery. I had similar issues at Causes and worked on email for months, and I can confirm all points are good to know. 

Images from the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 →

3 months ago ～

On one side Kodak files up for bankruptcy, and on the other Fuji releases a Leica M9 look a like camera, for 25% the price…

It looks super nice on video, might end up getting one.

FBI closes megaupload.com, DNS no more →

3 months ago ～

150 millions registered users, now 7 arrests and facing 20 years of jail.