(3/5) So the Apple Developer Connection has ended their long-time ADC Select and Premier membership program after everyone's current membership expires sometime this year. For now on they're just making the iPhone $99 developer buy-in the standard for all Apple development stuff. There are now also no hardware discounts anymore. (It used to be 20% for anything, then they made all consumer stuff only 10%, then they dropped iPhone/iPods from the discount, and now it's all gone.) This may or may not be cheaper for developers overall, it all depends on the price of the WWDC, of which I have yet to hear any official word.

(2/18) Interesting announcement about SolidWorks as it pertains to the Mac world.

(2/12) Bombaxtic has made a change in their developer licensing, and now Bombax is free to develop on, and then one can purchase deployment licenses. Bombax is a Cocoa / Objective-C web applications framework.

(2/3) Big news for recent iMac users who have seen or are worried about the intermittent display flicker bug that has been plaguing some owners (and I myself saw this problem for ten minutes, and it scared the pants off me) - Apple has posted a firmware update that claims to take care of the problem! Yay. This also points out that while Apple is sometimes publicly responsive as a dead bug stuck in amber for a million years, it is in fact listening and trying to address problems that users have with their products. Nice to know that eventually it all works out (presuming it does).

(1/27) So... what happened recently?

• -- AAPL had another record Q1. Blah blah blah. The now quite usual story. (joy)
• -- Sun Microsystems is no more. Gobbled up by Oracle. Sounds mythically Greek. The Sun was gobbled up by the Oracle. Know thy business!
• -- and... I think something else happened in Apple-land, ... but what? ...

(1/20) What if the event next week isn't about, or only about, a new tablet, but (also) about Mac OS X 10.7? 10.6 was a great upgrade for the core infrastructure, which allows Apple to then boldly go forth in new directions for 10.7, and they have been dead quiet about new GUI directions for a long time now. Just a thought.

(12/4) Today, Apple bumped up the specs on the Mac Pro line, so that the range of starting options, all using Nehalem-class Xeon chips, is now:

(11/20) If you can't install Snow Leopard updates, check if the iPhone Simulator is running. If so, quit it. They're fighting over the same port.

(11/19) I had a couple of requests to update my Charged Spheres screensaver for Snow Leopard, so I recompiled it for 10.6 (32/64-bit) and it works fine now.

(11/2) R.I.P. Stepwise, you were a great site, and critical in the early days of Mac OS X / Rhapsody. Scott's site helped me tremendously over the years.