I wrote CocoaICU about a year ago when I made the following observations: ICU has great regular expression support ICU is installed on Mac OS X Foundation lacks support for regexes. CocoaICU is simply a light layer of Objective-C code that encapsulates ICU. It’s remarkable that Cocoa still lacks regular expression support. I am not a Leopard user or [...]
Before MacWorld 2007 I made some predictions: New Finder in Leopard: Apple’s Finder will be significantly improved. This rumor has been repeated ad nauseam since 10.0 but I think this is the year. Apple has already stated that there are unannounced features in Leopard and Apple will need to put those [...]
World famous tech pundit Walt Mossberg reflects on the miserable experience PC of buying a PC: The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don’t act as if the computer belongs to you. They act as if it is a billboard for restricted trial versions of software and ads [...]
Apple and Google are working on more new things according to Eric Schmidt. I’ve already stated that I think Apple will dump .Mac and partner with Google for equivalent .Mac services and other new services syncing that will become neccessary when the iPhone arrives. I also think that Leopard will bring calendar [...]
The Macworld keynote has passed and Apple has introduced the iPhone and Apple TV. The biggest surprise of the keynote was the lack of announcements: no iWork or iLife updates and silence regarding Leopard. Everyone thought that Apple was announcing a phone and the iPhone still surprised everyone. Like many Apple products before it, [...]
Expectations are high about what Apple will announce at Macworld. Apple followers want to be surprised and impressed with new products at every conference but Apple only needs to release new products at a rather coarse interval to be successful. Having said that, I think that Apple will use this Macworld to release [...]
In my analysis of Apple’s upcoming phone, I suggested that Apple will use iTunes to offer software syncing of address books and calendars. This led someone to ask the following question: I am just wondering how Apple can implement the iCal and Address Book features to an Apple iMobile phone if those apps don’t exist [...]
Bill Ray of The Register writes that the iPhone will fail and fail badly. The device doesn’t even exist yet and we’re already trying to predict its failure. Let me try to break apart his argument. First, Ray contends that a critical aspect of the mass adoption of the iPod was that it [...]
Mac OS X 10.4 includes the ICU library but no simple way to actually use it. ICU is an open source Unicode library developed by IBM for Unicode and Locale-dependent functionality. Apple provides the library (/usr/lib/libicucore.dylib) in a standard Mac OS X installation but no headers to compile against the library. [...]
Apple hasn’t released an update that has required me to restart in a while: aaron@localhost > uptime 20:59 up 29 days, 14:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.90 1.23 0.78 That’s pleasant.