By Adam Grossman on June 17, 2015. Today we’re releasing a major new version of Dark Sky with a new design, advanced notification features, crowd-sourced weather reporting, and faster loading. A big goal of this update is not only to make the app significantly better, but also to limit how often you…

I just returned from a five-day trip in which I worked a lot , doing significant amounts of writing, web development, and especially iOS development. And I did it all on my base-model Retina MacBook P

Terror, Power, and Cruelty An Israeli soldier mans his post in Hebron. / Tali Caspi One morning, when I was about four years old, I proudly announced from the back seat of my family’s car, “Mother, I want you to know that I am the first kid in my whole kindergarten to think inside my head rather…

We need to talk about email clients. I’ve been joking for years that I’m going to write an email client and charge $500 for it — an email client that actually meets the needs of developers and profess

If you want an overview of everything new in Panther, the best resource I’ve seen, by far, is Mark Pilgrim’s “What’s new in Panther” — 11 pages, 100 screenshots, and pretty much a point-by-point overv

I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the

Last month I tried to think this smaller iPad thing all the way through . Didn’t quite make it all the way through, though, so let’s dig deeper. We’ve got the display. 7.85 inches diagonally, 1024 × 7

This could be one of four things A very elaborate hoax. If it’s a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into an actual smartphone. Not to mention all of the collaboration that would have been needed between the…

The original iPhone was great on day one. It couldn’t do as much as today’s iPhone, but it performed its feature-set extremely well. There were almost no rough edges or unpolished areas in its hardwar

I recently bought with my own money a Google Nexus 7 and have so far spent a week with it. I'm trying my very hardest to be objective and ignore all my previous experiences with Android (which go back to the original Nexus phone). Before I received the Nexus 7, I had expected to like the hardware…

It seems like another era, but back in the ’00s, major new-cat-name updates of Mac OS X were a big deal. They were packed with major new features, new built-in apps, significant performance improvemen