Previously, on Daring Fireball
July 2009
Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora 2 Jul 2009
June 2009
Copy and Paste 26 Jun 2009
Apple’s Secrecy 23 Jun 2009
Regarding the WSJ’s Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant 21 Jun 2009
WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up 17 Jun 2009
WWDC 2009 Predictions 7 Jun 2009
Palm Saturday 5 Jun 2009
More on Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ 2 Jun 2009
Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit 1 Jun 2009
May 2009
Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer 29 May 2009
The Next iPhone 21 May 2009
Regarding the Verizon and ‘iPhone Lite’ Rumors 1 May 2009
April 2009
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground 24 Apr 2009
How to Block the DiggBar 9 Apr 2009
New Daring Fireball T-Shirts 6 Apr 2009
Complex 1 Apr 2009
March 2009
Obsession Times Voice 27 Mar 2009
February 2009
Lost in the Shuffle 28 Feb 2009
Best Picture 23 Feb 2009
Untitled Document Syndrome 20 Feb 2009
Apple on the Mind at MWC 18 Feb 2009
Copying the Wrong Thing 17 Feb 2009
Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store 11 Feb 2009
Apple, Google, and Palm 10 Feb 2009
‘Do Shell Script’ and Premature Optimization 5 Feb 2009
January 2009
Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit 30 Jan 2009
The Truth 23 Jan 2009
NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data 21 Jan 2009
Godspeed 14 Jan 2009
Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions 5 Jan 2009
December 2008
E.T. 27 Dec 2008
Private 22 Dec 2008
That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying 18 Dec 2008
Apple ‘Netbooks’, Eh? 16 Dec 2008
Bang 11 Dec 2008
Deep Green 9 Dec 2008
Regarding the John Does in Apple’s Amended Complaint Against Ersatz Mac Cloner Psystar 6 Dec 2008
DF Paraphernalia 3 Dec 2008
November 2008
The Richard Solo 1800 iPhone/iPod Backup Battery 25 Nov 2008
Treating URL Protocol Schemes as Cruft 24 Nov 2008
Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs 19 Nov 2008
iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results 17 Nov 2008
Flagging Messages From iPhone Mail 14 Nov 2008
Executive Scuttlebutt 12 Nov 2008
More Notes on Notes 7 Nov 2008
Tangled Up in White 6 Nov 2008
A Fantastic Monument 5 Nov 2008
iPhone-Likeness 3 Nov 2008
Regarding Opera Mini and the App Store 1 Nov 2008
October 2008
The Richard Solo iPhone/iPod Backup Battery 28 Oct 2008
Good RAM Prices From Apple on New MacBooks 24 Oct 2008
The Phone Company 22 Oct 2008
Listen to Tim Cook 15 Oct 2008
Today’s Claim Chowder 14 Oct 2008
Contains Spoilers 14 Oct 2008
The iPhone 3G 8 Oct 2008
In the Background 6 Oct 2008
The Fear 2 Oct 2008
September 2008
Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone 30 Sep 2008
Regarding Apple’s Direct Sales of Unlocked, Contract-Free iPhones in Hong Kong 30 Sep 2008
Are App Store Rejections Really Covered by the NDA? 24 Sep 2008
Digging Deeper 20 Sep 2008
There’s Nothing There 18 Sep 2008
W/r/t DFW 16 Sep 2008
Things That Podcaster’s Rejection From the App Store Is Not About 15 Sep 2008
The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies 12 Sep 2008
Greatly Exaggerated 11 Sep 2008
Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock’ Apple Special Event 10 Sep 2008
August 2008
Raining on the OpenClip Parade 21 Aug 2008
Title Case Update 13 Aug 2008
Memoranda 11 Aug 2008
It’s a Core Location Blacklist 8 Aug 2008
Is the iPhone NDA About Patents? 7 Aug 2008
iPhone, iCal, and CalDAV 5 Aug 2008
iPhone Calendar Syncing 1 Aug 2008
July 2008
Not Yet Squirrelly 24 Jul 2008
WebKit Performance on iPhone OS X 2.0 20 Jul 2008
Distant and Remote 18 Jul 2008
Copy and Paste 15 Jul 2008
iPhone Display Color Temperature, and the Difference Between Builds 5A345 and 5A347 of the iPhone OS 14 Jul 2008
The App Store, Day One 10 Jul 2008
June 2008
Android Expectations 24 Jun 2008
Trade-Offs 24 Jun 2008
New Linked List Permalinks 21 Jun 2008
WWDC 2008 Miscellany 20 Jun 2008
Up Flash Creek Without a Paddle 17 Jun 2008
The iPhone 3G Upgrade Question 16 Jun 2008
Twice as Fast, Half the Price 9 Jun 2008
The Ins and Outs of Snow Leopard 8 Jun 2008
‘Snow Leopard’ at WWDC 4 Jun 2008
me.com 1 Jun 2008
May 2008
Spaces in 10.5.3 30 May 2008
Mobile Me? 30 May 2008
Sixty-Six 27 May 2008
Title Case 20 May 2008
Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe 14 May 2008
BlackBerry vs. iPhone 9 May 2008
Is This Microsoft-NBC ‘Copyright Cop’ Thing Bullshit or What? 8 May 2008
Regarding the iPhone Keyboard 5 May 2008
Subsidize This 2 May 2008
April 2008
Big Fan 28 Apr 2008
Stopped Clock 25 Apr 2008
The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web Clients for the iPhone 17 Apr 2008
The Invisible Bit 15 Apr 2008
How Much Money Does Apple Get From Google? 11 Apr 2008
Mac OS X’s ‘Search in Google’ Safari Tie-In 10 Apr 2008
Safari’s Tab Dragging Modes 9 Apr 2008
Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 Addenda 8 Apr 2008
Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 5 Apr 2008
The $64,000 Question 3 Apr 2008
March 2008
Get Your Helmet On 31 Mar 2008
T-Shirts and Memberships, 2008 26 Mar 2008
Quoting Attribution Bug in Apple Mail After Upgrading to Safari 3.1 26 Mar 2008
Update 23 Mar 2008
Regarding That Fucking Headline 20 Mar 2008
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being an Irredeemable Jackass 20 Mar 2008
Apple Mail and the Control Key 18 Mar 2008
So Who’s In Already? 17 Mar 2008
Foot, Meet Bullet 15 Mar 2008
The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument 14 Mar 2008
Confusion Regarding iPhone Developer Beta Program 14 Mar 2008
One App at a Time 14 Mar 2008
More Questions 7 Mar 2008
iPhone Enterprise and SDK: First Impressions and Questions 6 Mar 2008
ExpanDrive 4 Mar 2008
iPhone SDK Rumors and Speculation 3 Mar 2008
February 2008
Just the Internet 22 Feb 2008
Flim-Flash 21 Feb 2008
Leopard Details: Anchored Row Selection in NSTableView 20 Feb 2008
The Appeal of the MacBook Air 15 Feb 2008
Flash on iPhone Political Calculus 13 Feb 2008
News Flash: No Flash 12 Feb 2008
Using FastScripts as a Lightweight Alternative to Growl 8 Feb 2008
Devil’s Advocate 7 Feb 2008
Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time 5 Feb 2008
Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo 1 Feb 2008
January 2008
My Favorite CARS Moment 31 Jan 2008
Apple First Quarter 2008 Results 23 Jan 2008
Why the Mac Doesn’t Seem Viable for For-Profit Malware 21 Jan 2008
Keynote Roundup 16 Jan 2008
The Talk Show, or at Least Half of It, Live at Macworld 16 Jan 2008
The MacBook Air 15 Jan 2008
iTunes Terms of Service Update for Movie Rentals 15 Jan 2008
Macworld Expo Predictions 14 Jan 2008
Macworld Expo Prelude 13 Jan 2008
Advertising on Daring Fireball 12 Jan 2008
Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win 3 Jan 2008
The Way the Camera Follows Us in Slo-Mo 2 Jan 2008
December 2007
Gina Keating, Ace Reporter 30 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
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
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 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
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
December 2006
I Sold My App Through MacHeist and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt 18 Dec 2006
Getting the Size of Your Display With AppleScript, the Lazy Way 16 Dec 2006
The Iniquities of the Selfish 12 Dec 2006
Microsoft Rips Off Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon 11 Dec 2006
Conjectural Transcript of the Upcoming Negotiations Between Apple and Universal Music 5 Dec 2006
OmniVapor 1 Dec 2006
November 2006
Did Microsoft Copy the Wrong iPod? 29 Nov 2006
Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere 28 Nov 2006
DMG Kernel Panic Security Issue 21 Nov 2006
Pinprick 20 Nov 2006
Jackass of the Week: Larry Seltzer 19 Nov 2006
‘Beta’ Is Not an Excuse 13 Nov 2006
I’d Buy That for a Dollar 10 Nov 2006
Stikkit 9 Nov 2006
Why Is Adobe Soundbooth Intel-Only? 2 Nov 2006
October 2006
Can I Get an ‘Hallelujah’ for Auto-Completion With the Esc and F5 Keys? 27 Oct 2006
Yet More Jackasses: Neal Mueller and the Business Editors of The Washington Post 26 Oct 2006
Jackass of the Week: Rush Limbaugh 25 Oct 2006
My Jackass Stamp Is Running Out of Ink 20 Oct 2006
Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders 19 Oct 2006
Feed Me 18 Oct 2006
Membership Renewal 17 Oct 2006
Using Keyboard Maestro to Intercept Keyboard Shortcuts Usurped by the System 16 Oct 2006
Processing Processes 13 Oct 2006
How to Determine if a Certain App Is Running Using AppleScript and Perl 10 Oct 2006
BBColors 1.0 8 Oct 2006
Some Assembly Required 5 Oct 2006
Brand New 2 Oct 2006
September 2006
New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel 29 Sep 2006
Generalissimo Francisco Franco: Still Dead; Kieren McCarthy: Still a Jackass 28 Sep 2006
Jackass of the Week: Kieren McCarthy 26 Sep 2006
The AirPort Security Update and the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack 21 Sep 2006
Regarding the Features and Capabilities of the Various Fifth Generation iPods 20 Sep 2006
Regarding Analyst Speculation on iPod Pricing 18 Sep 2006
Showtime: The New iPods 15 Sep 2006
High on Vapor Fumes 15 Sep 2006
Showtime: The Big Picture 13 Sep 2006
Buy New iPods From Amazon and Support Daring Fireball 12 Sep 2006
Lies, Damned Lies, and MacBook Wi-Fi Hacks 11 Sep 2006
Update on the MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit Challenge 5 Sep 2006
An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch 1 Sep 2006
August 2006
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted 30 Aug 2006
A Bit More Regarding the MacBook Wireless Security Saga 23 Aug 2006
The Curious Case of the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack 21 Aug 2006
Jackass of the Week: Paul Thurrott 18 Aug 2006
Site Preferences and T-Shirts 17 Aug 2006
Regarding the Hardware Announcements at WWDC 2006 16 Aug 2006
WWDC Prelude 6 Aug 2006
Highly Selective 4 Aug 2006
Regarding Brian Krebs’s Reporting on the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit 3 Aug 2006
July 2006
Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft’s ‘Zune’ 25 Jul 2006
Standing in Line With Mr. Jimmy 15 Jul 2006
The Mac OS X Tipping Point 8 Jul 2006
June 2006
Hot Off the Press 26 Jun 2006
Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive 20 Jun 2006
Why Apple Won’t Open Source Its Apps 19 Jun 2006
And Oranges 15 Jun 2006
May 2006
Confidence Game 26 May 2006
‘Web Kit’ vs. ‘WebKit’ 15 May 2006
The Last Pixel 12 May 2006
Tim Bray on iCal 12 May 2006
Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser 11 May 2006
Goal 9 May 2006
Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize Web Server Addresses 5 May 2006
More Aperture Dirt 4 May 2006
Good Journalism 2 May 2006
April 2006
Feed Me 30 Apr 2006
Aperture Dirt 28 Apr 2006
More on NSTextView’s ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste 27 Apr 2006
When ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks 26 Apr 2006
Cringely’s Machinations 22 Apr 2006
Initiative 20 Apr 2006
New T-Shirts 19 Apr 2006
O’Grady v. Superior Court 13 Apr 2006
Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo 12 Apr 2006
Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend 10 Apr 2006
Windows: The New Classic 6 Apr 2006
‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates 3 Apr 2006
March 2006
Adios Avie 31 Mar 2006
Stubborn Chronicle Staff Writer Is an Ignoramus 27 Mar 2006
The iPod Juggernaut 24 Mar 2006
The Annals of Journalism 10 Mar 2006
Speaking at SXSW 10 Mar 2006
Switching Is Afoot 8 Mar 2006
Familiarity Breeds a User Base 5 Mar 2006
February 2006
The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit 22 Feb 2006
Joyeur 20 Feb 2006
Smart Crash Reports Addenda 13 Feb 2006
Bedecked 2 Feb 2006
January 2006
Smart Crash Reports 30 Jan 2006
Macworld Expo 2006 in Review 20 Jan 2006
iTunes MiniStore Is Now Opt-In 18 Jan 2006
iLife ’06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface 13 Jan 2006
MWSF ’06 Predictions 10 Jan 2006
December 2005
Merry 26 Dec 2005
A Public Service Announcement Regarding ‘callto:’ URIs and Safari 16 Dec 2005
November 2005
‘Restart Apache’ AppleScript 30 Nov 2005
Full Metal Jacket Addenda 16 Nov 2005
Full Metal Jacket 11 Nov 2005
October 2005
Membership Numbers 27 Oct 2005
BBEdit and TextWrangler CSS Syntax Checker 1.0.1 26 Oct 2005
Prizes for 2005 Membership Drive 24 Oct 2005
Notes on Membership Information 24 Oct 2005
If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Time for New Apple Product Announcements 19 Oct 2005
The Life 14 Oct 2005
Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today’s Special Event 12 Oct 2005
Introducing Joyent 5 Oct 2005
Membership Renewal 2005 3 Oct 2005
September 2005
The English-Likeness Monster 27 Sep 2005
Rhymes With Ditty 21 Sep 2005
Wrong Folder Returned by ‘path to’ Command in System Events Tell Blocks 13 Sep 2005
BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0 6 Sep 2005
August 2005
Google Is an Advertising Company 29 Aug 2005
The GUIdebook Interview 18 Aug 2005
Star Star 11 Aug 2005
Trusted 6 Aug 2005
Notes on Notes 1 Aug 2005
July 2005
Location Validation in the Dashboard Weather Widget 22 Jul 2005
About the Footnotes 20 Jul 2005
Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket? 13 Jul 2005
Plugged Leaks 1 Jul 2005
June 2005
Shuffling 30 Jun 2005
Hacking Apple’s Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update 27 Jun 2005
Making Book 23 Jun 2005
Together We Can Rule the Galaxy 10 Jun 2005
Bombs Away 8 Jun 2005
Classic Not Supported on Intel-Based Macs 6 Jun 2005
Intel-Apple Odds and Ends 5 Jun 2005
I’ll See You Intel 5 Jun 2005
Tiger Adoption Rate 4 Jun 2005
May 2005
Intel-mania 27 May 2005
I Suppose It Has to Be OK 20 May 2005
Dictionary Look-Ups From BBEdit, Mailsmith, and TextWrangler 7 May 2005
April 2005
The Tiger Details List 29 Apr 2005
The Fish Rots From the Head 27 Apr 2005
The Other Amazons 21 Apr 2005
Fun for the Whole Family 12 Apr 2005
It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word ‘Replace’ Is 7 Apr 2005
Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers 4 Apr 2005
March 2005
Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window, Redux 30 Mar 2005
Pre-Order Tiger From Amazon 28 Mar 2005
Caching Out 26 Mar 2005
Font Caches Gone Wild 25 Mar 2005
Login Delays and Damaged Font Caches on Mac OS X 10.3 21 Mar 2005
On the Discovery Ruling in ‘Apple v. Does’ 15 Mar 2005
On the Credibility of The New York Times 11 Mar 2005
If The New York Times Jumped Off a Bridge 8 Mar 2005
Nerve Touching 4 Mar 2005
Kill ‘nav-commenters.gif’ 1 Mar 2005
February 2005
FireWire Hysteria 24 Feb 2005
How to Create an ‘App of the Year’ 18 Feb 2005
Apps of the Year, 2004 16 Feb 2005
Marking Subscriptions as ‘Private’ in Bloglines 14 Feb 2005
Members-Only RSS Feeds Now Using HTTP Authentication 11 Feb 2005
Subscription Small Print 8 Feb 2005
Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service 6 Feb 2005
January 2005
Promotional Consideration 28 Jan 2005
Small, Cheap, and Without a Display 16 Jan 2005
The Rumor Game 6 Jan 2005
Plugging Leaks 5 Jan 2005
Apple to Announce ‘iWork’ Office Suite? 3 Jan 2005
December 2004
Software Update Tips and Voodoo 28 Dec 2004
Markdown Licensing 17 Dec 2004
Markdown 1.0.1 17 Dec 2004
Paging Jennifer Beals 11 Dec 2004
Amazon Debauchery 5 Dec 2004
Flash Gordon 2 Dec 2004
November 2004
On the Placement of Linked List Content 24 Nov 2004
MDJ Reports Tim Bucher No Longer at Apple 20 Nov 2004
The True Story of Audion 12 Nov 2004
Additional Poofery 11 Nov 2004
Examining the Consistency of Your Poofs 2 Nov 2004
October 2004
iPod Mania 29 Oct 2004
iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition 26 Oct 2004
Does This Brushed Metal Stuff Really Even Matter? 22 Oct 2004
Today’s Theme: Themes 19 Oct 2004
Brushed Metal and the HIG 16 Oct 2004
PayPal Outage 12 Oct 2004
Gruber for Hire 8 Oct 2004
Still Not Much of a Joke 7 Oct 2004
Some Joke 6 Oct 2004
T-shirts Redux 5 Oct 2004
BBEdit Soft Wrap Toggling 4 Oct 2004
‘Rename Active Document’ Script for BBEdit 2 Oct 2004
September 2004
Windows Versus the World 30 Sep 2004
For Whatever Reasons 27 Sep 2004
Traffic and Readership 24 Sep 2004
Sponsor This 22 Sep 2004
Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window 17 Sep 2004
BBEdit 8 14 Sep 2004
MSN Music ‘iPod’ Help Page Updated Again 8 Sep 2004
MT Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8 7 Sep 2004
You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as Long as It’s Black 3 Sep 2004
We’ve Never Even Heard of This ‘iTunes Music Store’ of Which You Speak 2 Sep 2004
August 2004
Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8 30 Aug 2004
Markdown 1.0 28 Aug 2004
OmniWeb 5.0 21 Aug 2004
Why 2004 Won’t Be Like 1984 16 Aug 2004
The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share 7 Aug 2004
The Perl Email Project 2 Aug 2004
July 2004
Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding RealNetworks’ Harmony 30 Jul 2004
Properly Attired 25 Jul 2004
Awarded 23 Jul 2004
Membership Keys 14 Jul 2004
Spotlight on Spotlight 12 Jul 2004
Status 9 Jul 2004
Konfab Confab 6 Jul 2004
The Last-Minute Push 2 Jul 2004
Multiple Shirt Orders 2 Jul 2004
June 2004
Dashboard vs. Konfabulator 30 Jun 2004
Introducing the Linked List 28 Jun 2004
More Membership Prizes 25 Jun 2004
The Location Field Is the New Command Line 22 Jun 2004
Membership Giveaways 22 Jun 2004
Questions Regarding the Shirts and Membership 18 Jun 2004
Something Daring 16 Jun 2004
So Witty 11 Jun 2004
Misregistered 8 Jun 2004
Security Update 7 Jun 2004
Broken Windows 4 Jun 2004
May 2004
Security Cannot Be Spun 30 May 2004
An Ounce of Prevention 24 May 2004
About the Help Viewer Security Update, and, Also, Why I Don’t Think You Need Paranoid Android 23 May 2004
Using the ‘telnet’ URI Protocol to Delete Files 21 May 2004
Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers With RCDefaultApp 20 May 2004
Like a Lead Zeppelin 15 May 2004
Movable Type 3.0 Plug-In Compatibility 15 May 2004
Writing for Google 11 May 2004
What to Do When Your Energy Saver Prefs Panel Won’t Load 6 May 2004
Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers 5 May 2004
Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re Good Links, I Swear 1 May 2004
April 2004
If It Ain’t Broke 23 Apr 2004
Crying Wolf 16 Apr 2004
Preferences 12 Apr 2004
Sundry ‘Spray-On’ Clarifications and Corrections 6 Apr 2004
Ronco Spray-On Usability 1 Apr 2004
March 2004
Marcia, Marcia, Markdown 25 Mar 2004
Dive Into Markdown 19 Mar 2004
Introducing Markdown 15 Mar 2004
I Would Like You to Dance 9 Mar 2004
For Real 4 Mar 2004
February 2004
Mailsmith ‘Send Now’ Menu Key Defense 26 Feb 2004
48 Hours 20 Feb 2004
Setting Empty File and Creator Types 13 Feb 2004
Scripting File and Creator Types 12 Feb 2004
OmniWeb 5 Public Beta 2 Feb 2004
January 2004
Nudge 30 Jan 2004
Folklore 25 Jan 2004
Joney Jojo Junior Shabadoo 22 Jan 2004
The H-Bomb 14 Jan 2004
Command and Control 9 Jan 2004
You’re Not One of Those Agitators, Are You? 7 Jan 2004
A Big Garage 6 Jan 2004
Die Hard 5 Jan 2004
Intervals 3 Jan 2004
December 2003
Rob Enderle: Putting the ‘Anal’ in ‘Analyst’ 28 Dec 2003
Inflammable Means Flammable? 16 Dec 2003
Losers, Weepers 14 Dec 2003
Old Habits 11 Dec 2003
PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit 6 Dec 2003
Graphic Communication 4 Dec 2003
Panther Adoption Rate 1 Dec 2003
November 2003
Ejection 25 Nov 2003
Siracusa on Panther 19 Nov 2003
Crufty the Clown 16 Nov 2003
Eggs and Irons 14 Nov 2003
BBEdit 7.1 13 Nov 2003
Panther Text Rendering 10 Nov 2003
SmartyPants 1.4.1 8 Nov 2003
External Editors in Xcode 7 Nov 2003
Run Panther Run 3 Nov 2003
October 2003
Command-Tab 27 Oct 2003
Browser Stats 24 Oct 2003
Closed Is Open 21 Oct 2003
Pop Culture 16 Oct 2003
Various Links Related to Words That End With ‘ck’ 9 Oct 2003
Dudley More 9 Oct 2003
Dell’s Dud 1 Oct 2003
September 2003
Miscellanea 26 Sep 2003
‘Select Word’ Script Addenda 25 Sep 2003
Interview: Michael Tsai 24 Sep 2003
‘Select Word’ Script for BBEdit 23 Sep 2003
AppleScript ‘Whose’ Clauses 19 Sep 2003
IBM Compatible 16 Sep 2003
The White Stripes 9 Sep 2003
Using CVS with BBEdit 8 Sep 2003
VapoRub 4 Sep 2003
VaporOffice 2 Sep 2003
August 2003
Dynomite! 28 Aug 2003
Good Times 25 Aug 2003
The Daring Fireball Power 1 List 23 Aug 2003
On Newsstands Now 19 Aug 2003
Text Editing News 13 Aug 2003
The One and Only Mac OS X Extensions Folder 10 Aug 2003
Panic Room 9 Aug 2003
Microtech’s Crashtacular Zio Driver 7 Aug 2003
Crayolas 6 Aug 2003
I Would Not Feel So All Alone 5 Aug 2003
Mailsmith, an iBook, and Glider Pro Walk Into a Bar 1 Aug 2003
July 2003
Bang for Your Buck 27 Jul 2003
Look Out Below 26 Jul 2003
Market Share 24 Jul 2003
‘Grab HTML’ Script for BBEdit, Redux 21 Jul 2003
Finding Avie 17 Jul 2003
The Good, the Bad, and the Avie 14 Jul 2003
Independent Days 8 Jul 2003
Textiles 2 Jul 2003
Casady & Greene 1 Jul 2003
June 2003
SmartyPants 1.4 30 Jun 2003
You Put Chocolate in My Peanut Butter 29 Jun 2003
Flipping the Bird 27 Jun 2003
Drop a Dime 24 Jun 2003
Very Brief Comments Regarding Certain of Today’s WWDC Announcements 23 Jun 2003
You Have New Mail 18 Jun 2003
Internet Explorer 16 Jun 2003
TrackBack Addenda 13 Jun 2003
Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle 12 Jun 2003
Noted 5 Jun 2003
Looney Tunes 2 Jun 2003
May 2003
Waferbaby Interview 22 May 2003
Steaming Pile 19 May 2003
JackAssassin 18 May 2003
Zeldman Reloaded 16 May 2003
SmartyPants 1.3 14 May 2003
Safari’s Unscriptable Tabs 13 May 2003
Much Ado About Click-Through 10 May 2003
The Problems With Click-Through 7 May 2003
More iTunes Minutiae 2 May 2003
Et Tu iTunes? 1 May 2003
Interface Details: iTunes vs. Safari 1 May 2003
April 2003
Observations Regarding iTunes 4 30 Apr 2003
RTF to Plain Text Translator 29 Apr 2003
Stoned 28 Apr 2003
Accommodating 24 Apr 2003
Command Line Fun 23 Apr 2003
Sticky Business Redux: Web Browsers 15 Apr 2003
The Sticky Business of Page Layout 14 Apr 2003
Qwerty 8 Apr 2003
Translation 7 Apr 2003
Siracusa on the Finder 2 Apr 2003
Get What You Pay For 1 Apr 2003
March 2003
Interview: Brent Simmons 28 Mar 2003
The Party’s Over 25 Mar 2003
Bitmap Like It’s 1989 23 Mar 2003
Anti-Anti-Aliasing 19 Mar 2003
Code Monkey 13 Mar 2003
SmartyPants 1.2.1 11 Mar 2003
Anti-Aliasing 8 Mar 2003
Aliasing 7 Mar 2003
I Love It Because It’s Trash 2 Mar 2003
Not Dead Yet 1 Mar 2003
February 2003
SmartyPants 1.2 27 Feb 2003
Banana Jr. 27 Feb 2003
We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here 26 Feb 2003
Wrangly 25 Feb 2003
New Trick for Script Menu 24 Feb 2003
Stinkmail 23 Feb 2003
Install Like It’s 1991 23 Feb 2003
Larry, Moe, Curly 23 Feb 2003
Short and Curlies 22 Feb 2003
Popularity Contest 18 Feb 2003
Inconsistencies 16 Feb 2003
Flowers Are for Chumps 14 Feb 2003
Konfabulous 12 Feb 2003
Operatic 8 Feb 2003
When in Rome 7 Feb 2003
SmartyPants 1.1 7 Feb 2003
Enkode This 4 Feb 2003
Remember IE? 3 Feb 2003
Save and Restore Safari URLs 3 Feb 2003
January 2003
Scripting Safari URLs Update 31 Jan 2003
Scripting Safari URLs 23 Jan 2003
Safari Source in BBEdit 21 Jan 2003
Ocean’s X11 21 Jan 2003
Two Slices 17 Jan 2003
A La Mode 15 Jan 2003
Lies, Damn Lies 13 Jan 2003
Safari Links 11 Jan 2003
Nottke 10 Jan 2003
So Far We 10 Jan 2003
100 Percent Cotton 10 Jan 2003
Safari 8 Jan 2003
Rectangular 7 Jan 2003
Last Minute MWSF Predictions 7 Jan 2003
December 2002
That Sort of Thing 30 Dec 2002
Rascal 27 Dec 2002
Developer Goodies 23 Dec 2002
bbdiff 1.1 22 Dec 2002
Welch and Tsai on the Finder 20 Dec 2002
BBEdit 7 Review 19 Dec 2002
Bare Bones Disclaimer 19 Dec 2002
Finder Reflux 16 Dec 2002
Hackass 10 Dec 2002
Not the Eskimo 6 Dec 2002
Snow Day 5 Dec 2002
I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter 3 Dec 2002
November 2002
Thanksfindering 28 Nov 2002
That Finder Thing 26 Nov 2002
DMG 20 Nov 2002
Do You Smell Something? 19 Nov 2002
A Valid Point 15 Nov 2002
SmartyPants 1.0 13 Nov 2002
Journaling Details 12 Nov 2002
Crow 11 Nov 2002
Victors, Spoils, Dumb-Ass Voters 7 Nov 2002
Cruft 7 Nov 2002
Wine 4 Nov 2002
October 2002
Perl for Dummies (And Apple Installer Engineers) 29 Oct 2002
Stereotypical Fun 26 Oct 2002
Switched 23 Oct 2002
Valid RSS 0.91 Feeds From Movable Type 23 Oct 2002
Exposed 21 Oct 2002
Journal to the Center of the Earth 17 Oct 2002
Listen 16 Oct 2002
Stepping on eWeek’s Blue Suede Shoes 16 Oct 2002
Microsoft Make-Up 15 Oct 2002
Microsoft’s Answer to Ellen Feiss 14 Oct 2002
Labels X 11 Oct 2002
MacSFTP 10 Oct 2002
Only Funny Because It’s True 8 Oct 2002
Fork You 8 Oct 2002
Matters Unix 7 Oct 2002
Movable Type Smart Quotes, Now With Retsin 5 Oct 2002
Linktoberfest 2 Oct 2002
September 2002
Feed Me 29 Sep 2002
Welcome, Indeed 27 Sep 2002
The Annotated Workspace 26 Sep 2002
VersionCrapper User Reviews 24 Sep 2002
On Joel on Software 21 Sep 2002
I.P. Freely 16 Sep 2002
Siracusa on Jaguar 10 Sep 2002
A Brief Word on Netscape 7.0 3 Sep 2002
August 2002
Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman 30 Aug 2002
Unix Switchers 29 Aug 2002
‘Grab HTML’ Script for BBEdit 22 Aug 2002
Blame It on Quark 21 Aug 2002
Pretty Good News 19 Aug 2002
iPhony 19 Aug 2002
Why HyperCard Failed 16 Aug 2002
Movable Type Smart Quote Devilry 16 Aug 2002
Jack Valenti Does Not Smell Like Teen Spirit 14 Aug 2002
Baby Needs a New Pair of Processors 13 Aug 2002