Panic discussed this on the company blog in late 2012, outlining the steps taken to make Coda compliant with Sandboxing restrictions. The company pointed out that Apple had gone to great lengths to assist in getting Coda out the door. Unfortunately the need to get Coda in the hands of users eventually outweighed the time it…
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Choosy Developer Framework for iOS Lets You Pick Your Default Apps
Here's a video from Mr. Novosad explaining Choosy:
FTC Smacks Snapchat Over Non-Disappearing Photos and Privacy Breaches
One of the appealing features of photo messaging app Snapchat is that the photo is temporary; after a short period of time the image disappears, or at least, that’s what people thought until the FTC got involved. Some of the FTC charges were related to a security hole discovered earlier this year that disclosed over 4…
How To Create Custom Contact Labels on iOS and Mac
On iOS: First, launch the Contacts app on your device. Tap the plus to create a new contact. Fill in the name of the contact, and then move down to phone number and enter the number. New contact name and number entered. Tap on the label and when the list of options comes up, choose Add…
Net Neutrality And You - It's a Big Deal
Part of the issue is the goal of pro-Net Neutrality people to keep “Internet access” synonymous with “phone line.” While we take it for granted today, a phone line is a wire provided by one company that allows you to choose who you call, whether they are using the same telephone provider you use or not. Many large…
How To Manage and Control Cellular Data Usage on Your iPhone
Launch Settings, then tap on Cellular. Once there, scroll down past “Set Up Personal Hotspot” and “Call Time” and you will see a list of apps, thankfully in alphabetical order. Each of them will show how much data has been used since last time “Reset Statistics” was pressed. More importantly, each one has a switch…
OS X: Add Disc Eject to Your Mac's Menu Bar
Switch to the Finder and choose Go > Go to Folder… and paste in the following path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ Your Mac's Menu Extras folder When the window opens, you can see a list of files that end in .menu. To add eject to your menu bar, double-click on Eject.menu and you’ll get a little eject…
Facebook Announces Anonymous Login, More Privacy Controls
Facebook's new Anonymous Login option. This solves a common problem with Facebook apps or logins, where maybe an app looks interesting, but a user doesn’t want to share a bunch of data up front. This way there can be a trial while a user forms an opinion about an app, then go back and adjust…
Verizon Plans to Use Desktop Tracking for Mobile Ads, How to Opt-Out
Image made with help from Shutterstock. Here's how it works: Like a lot of sites, when you visit Verizon’s site and log in, it sets a cookie on your computer. Verizon’s cookie includes an anonymized identifier (also common in cookies). What's new here is this identifier will now be made available to third-party mobile ad firms…
New York World's Fair 50th Anniversary
World's Fair Site I know, the World's Fair isn't Apple related, and normally I'd have made this a Cool Stuff Found entry here at TMO; but, when I went to write it up I had so many cool things I decided to make it an editorial. Sadly what remains on site is minimal and only…
How to Streamline System Preferences on Your Mac
First, you can edit which icons show in the window at all by going to the View menu and selecting Customize: Options under the View menu You can uncheck the ones you don’t necessarily need: Look at all those checkboxes! When you’re finished, just click the ‘Done’ button. Don’t worry, you haven’t removed anything from your…
How To Bend iTunes Radio Stations To Your Will With Tuning Options
Kelly bends iTunes Radio to her will, and so can you! So here’s how to tune those stations, both on iOS and Mac OS: First, on iOS, here’s where the tuning options live. Launch the Music app and tap the iTunes Radio icon in the lower left: There's iTunes Radio, down in the lower left.…
T-Mobile Unveils Three Days Of 'Uncarrier' which Is Good for Customers
T-Mobile has ramped up what it calls the Uncarrier initiative, aimed at “freeing Americans from the from the greedy, absurd practices of the old wireless companies.” That's most likely marketing hype, but whatever the case, T-Mobile's Uncarrier policies are good for customers. In the last week there were three days of Uncarrier announcements, and the…
Create Clickable App Idea Prototypes, No Code Required With Marvel
Snap a photo of your idea sketch and make it interactive with Marvel. Even better than the good idea, the whole thing is free and you can sync via Dropbox so your resources are all available everywhere your Dropbox folder resides. If it turns out that you aren’t a designer or even particularly good at…
Time Machine Bug In Mavericks with Secondary Monitor - How to Fix It
My first suggestion is unplugging the second monitor, launching Time Machine and restoring the file, then plugging the monitor back in. This is not necessarily the nicest solution, but it does save having to log out and back in after making changes. Other ways to resolve this involve changing monitor settings. First, try switching monitors…
Amazon Smartphone Rumors Now Include Photos
Photo Courtesy of Boy Genius Report Those reportedly include a 13 megapixel rear camera, one front facing selfie/video chat camera, and four additional cameras that work in conjunction with sensors to create a glasses-free 3D effects, one of the biggest features that differentiates Amazon’s smartphone from others. These effects are reported to trickle down through the…
Amazon Has A Smartphone Coming, Say People Who Have Seen It
Amazon has reportedly been demonstrating the unreleased handset around San Francisco and Seattle. Apparently the distinguishing feature of Amazon’s phone is that it can display 3D images but does so in a way that doesn’t require special glasses. The WSJ pointed out that Apple and Samsung make up 49% of the mobile market, and it would…
Court Documents Show Samsung Publicly Fudges Galaxy Tab Sales
Internal Samsung documents show 1 million Tabs sold in all of 2011, compared to iPad sales of 17.4 million, Kindle Fire’s 5 million, and even 1.5 million Nooks, putting Samsung in fourth place. This bit of information in particular caused a lot of ripples because research firms based reports on Samsung's falsified numbers. IDC said Steve…
Sorry, Apple/Amazon/Google Your Current Products Can't Win the TV Settop Box Wars
Here’s what I want: a device that pushes high quality video (currently 1080p) to my television; a device that doesn’t care if that video came from iTunes, Amazon video, Netflix, or a hard drive on my network; a device that can deliver video from a cable company as on-demand video, something I recorded, or even a live broadcast.…
Searching iTunes Now Faster And Easier With fnd.io Tool
Using Apple's own API to get results, fnd shows the results in tabs. You can look at all the sections of the store, or at each section individually. If you're searching for something vague or common words, then this is a quick way to narrow down results. Also, there is a scrolling list, which is…
WSJ Interviews iPhone Engineer Just Before Another Samsung Patent Trial
Mr. Christie started at Apple in 1996 to work on the Newton, so he has a long relationship with Apple's touch screens. He was invited to work on a secret project in late 2004, resulting in two meetings a month (in a room with extremely limited access) with Steve Jobs to show progress and get…
How to Find Out 'What's on Apple TV' in Your Browser
What's on all those channels? Apple has the scoop. Apple has a page titled What's On Apple TV to show all the different content available on the Apple TV. They have descriptions for the channels from Apple that display your own content on the TV, but they also included the current list of channels and…