Articles Published in 2007

December 2007

Gina Keating, Ace Reporter     30 Dec 2007

Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything ‘Anti-Apple’ Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don’t I Just Marry Them?     19 Dec 2007

‘message:’ URLs in Leopard Mail      4 Dec 2007

Anti-Aliasing on the iPhone      1 Dec 2007

November 2007

DUM     19 Nov 2007

Bento     14 Nov 2007

Apple Needs a Nikon      2 Nov 2007

October 2007

Happy Halloween, Savvy?     31 Oct 2007

Shipping Means Prioritizing     30 Oct 2007

Blue in the Face     29 Oct 2007

Leopard     26 Oct 2007

I Believe in Murphy’s Law     26 Oct 2007

Feedery     25 Oct 2007

Family     24 Oct 2007

Everything’s Coming Up Milhouse     23 Oct 2007

The iPhone and Web Apps     19 Oct 2007

Let the Tea Leaf Reading Begin     19 Oct 2007

Pre-Order Leopard Via DF Amazon Affiliate Links     16 Oct 2007

Total Music, Uh-Huh     12 Oct 2007

The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’     10 Oct 2007

Cancel Computer      5 Oct 2007

A Solomonic Solution to Leopard’s Dock Problem      3 Oct 2007

Forever Is a Long Time      3 Oct 2007

The New Zunes      2 Oct 2007

September 2007

New iPhone 1.1.1 Features, Which May or May Not Be Old News to iPod Touch Owners     28 Sep 2007

More on the Amazon MP3 Store     26 Sep 2007

The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader     25 Sep 2007

Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica     25 Sep 2007

Actually, Not Much Better at All This Late Than Never     21 Sep 2007

An Important Public Service Announcement Regarding Marker Felt on the iPhone     19 Sep 2007

Notes and Observations Regarding Apple’s Announcements From ‘The Beat Goes On’ Special Event, Which, Inexplicably, I Didn’t Bother to Publish Two Weeks Ago When They Were Relevant     19 Sep 2007

Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From the iPod Touch Features Guide     14 Sep 2007

The Ringtones Racket     13 Sep 2007

Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy     12 Sep 2007

Scratch That Its      9 Sep 2007

I’ll Show You ‘Subpar’      8 Sep 2007

That Product Transition      7 Sep 2007

The Price Cut Heard Round the World      7 Sep 2007

It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse      1 Sep 2007

August 2007

Rethinking Email     27 Aug 2007

Itso     25 Aug 2007

Feedback     16 Aug 2007

C4[1] Photoset on Flickr     15 Aug 2007

C4[1] in a Nut     15 Aug 2007

Clipboard and Text Selection : iPhone :: Arrow Keys : Original Macintosh      9 Aug 2007

Fake Steve, Unmasked      6 Aug 2007

Taking Stock      2 Aug 2007

Dateline NBC’s Report on Stolen iPods      2 Aug 2007

July 2007

Scott Moritz and TheStreet.com’s Million iPhone La‑La Land     31 Jul 2007

Regarding the Daring Fireball RSS Feed     30 Jul 2007

BusinessWeek: ‘Taking the iPhone Apart’     27 Jul 2007

iSuppli     26 Jul 2007

iPhone Fonts     20 Jul 2007

Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail     16 Jul 2007

‘OS X iPod’ Nonsense     15 Jul 2007

Regarding OS X-Based iPods     13 Jul 2007

Selected Wi-Fi Network Names My iPhone Discovered While I Walked to the Grocery Store Yesterday     13 Jul 2007

On Top     11 Jul 2007

Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for Apple Mail     10 Jul 2007

Jackass of the Week: MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan      9 Jul 2007

Josh Quittner Returns His iPhone      6 Jul 2007

The New Leopard Dock and the HIG      5 Jul 2007

June 2007

iPhone First Impressions     30 Jun 2007

Acting Up     27 Jun 2007

iPhone Doubter of the Year     26 Jun 2007

Regarding the 80 GB iPhone Capacity in the Activation and Sync Video     26 Jun 2007

Straws, Grasping Thereat     25 Jun 2007

New High-Water Mark in iPhone Jackassery     23 Jun 2007

Apple Cynic Watch: Slate’s Jack Shafer     22 Jun 2007

Exchange Exchange     19 Jun 2007

WWDC 2007 Keynote News     11 Jun 2007

An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard      9 Jun 2007

The High-Resolution 17-Inch MacBook Pro      7 Jun 2007

Regarding iTunes Plus Metadata      6 Jun 2007

iPhone: Using Cell Towers for Positioning?      6 Jun 2007

Taps      4 Jun 2007

iPhone SDK, iPhone SDK! Wherefore Art Thou iPhone SDK?      1 Jun 2007

May 2007

Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire     29 May 2007

Enjackass     22 May 2007

Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree      5 May 2007

New Shirt Schedule      4 May 2007

Regarding Harry McCracken’s Departure From PC World      4 May 2007

The iPhone’s Funny Price      1 May 2007

April 2007

Google Lucky Search Scripts for ThisService     27 Apr 2007

Interview: Dino Dai Zovi     26 Apr 2007

Coda     24 Apr 2007

In My World     23 Apr 2007

Regarding the Membership Drive     22 Apr 2007

Another Look at These Swell T-Shirts     16 Apr 2007

Membership Drive and Contest Reminder     16 Apr 2007

Bottleneck     13 Apr 2007

The Limited Edition Swap Meat DF T-Shirt     12 Apr 2007

A Wee Bit More on AAC, Ogg, and MP3     10 Apr 2007

Some Facts About AAC     10 Apr 2007

Apple Computer      6 Apr 2007

A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer      4 Apr 2007

EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music      2 Apr 2007

March 2007

Rip This Joint     30 Mar 2007

T-Shirt Upgrade for Recent Membership Sign-Ups     30 Mar 2007

The New Daring Fireball T-Shirts     29 Mar 2007

Regarding the Members-Only Feeds     28 Mar 2007

Creating New Text Files From the Finder’s Contextual Menu     27 Mar 2007

The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive     26 Mar 2007

A Few ‘Deal With It’ Follow-Up Points     25 Mar 2007

Deal With It     23 Mar 2007

LogoMaid Rips Off Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits Logo, and Then Things Get Weird     22 Mar 2007

JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder     19 Mar 2007

Like a Sponge     17 Mar 2007

Let’s Have a Panel on What We Didn’t Like About SXSW 2007     16 Mar 2007

Show Me      5 Mar 2007

Blank Slate      4 Mar 2007

February 2007

Regarding Dori Smith’s Comparison of Gender Diversity Among Speakers at Web Conferences to the Authors of Bestselling JavaScript Books     25 Feb 2007

Regarding Kottke’s Piece on Gender Diversity at Web Conferences     23 Feb 2007

Would Apple Mix DRM and Non-DRM Music at the iTunes Store?     22 Feb 2007

Fair Enough     21 Feb 2007

Using Dynamic Scripting Languages for Mac OS X Application Development     20 Feb 2007

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’     16 Feb 2007

SXSW 2007: The Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer     13 Feb 2007

Command, Option, Control     12 Feb 2007

Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’      7 Feb 2007

More Crap From Rob Enderle on the iPhone      5 Feb 2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates      2 Feb 2007

Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton      1 Feb 2007

January 2007

Sometimes I Wonder Whether Rob Enderle Is Just Pulling Our Legs     25 Jan 2007

‘Word Count’ Script for ThisService     24 Jan 2007

OS X     16 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball Live at Macworld Expo     15 Jan 2007

At ARM’s Length     10 Jan 2007

Macworld Expo 2007 Predictions      9 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball, Live Tuesday at Macworld Expo      8 Jan 2007

Speaking of Clowns      3 Jan 2007