Fabien Penso

Retina display Mac OSX laptops

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:32:57 +0100

So, it seems Apple’s Messages App is already building in support for Retina displays on the Mac.

Rumors have even suggested that we might see our first Retina Display Macs in 2012. One early report claimed Apple was working on a 2880x1800 MacBook Pro for the middle of this year.

Can’t wait to play with those Retina powered laptops.

Mail tool for Rails developers

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:02:03 +0100

Mail tool for Rails developers:

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that’s arrived so far.

Super nifty tool, easy to install too.

Color web tools

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0100

Color web tools:

It’s not about this catastrophic iPhone application, it’s about color tools on the web.

A weekly e-mail digest for programmers.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:53:12 +0100

A weekly e-mail digest for programmers.:

Email isn’t dead after all.

Status Code is a language agnostic roundup of the latest ideas, releases, trends, events and must-read articles from the field of software development.

Sent every Wednesday by Peter Cooper.

The best (to come) iPhone dock gets lasering

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:46:55 +0100

The best (to come) iPhone dock gets lasering:

1.2 millions US dollars raised (1 million the last time I’ve checked, a few days ago) and getting custom lasering. Kickstarter really is a money raising whore.

Path2 contact upload issue follow up

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:00 +0100

Path2 contact upload issue follow up:

So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers.

Nice move.

Tweetbot available on iPad

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:10:32 +0100

Tweetbot available on iPad:

It was one of the first complain people had on Tweetbot for iPhone. Grab yours.

Boring default profile picture about to change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:43 +0100

Boring default profile picture about to change:

Basecamp about to change that boring gray profile picture to something way more artsy. The funny thing is, I actually like it.

Forget your laptop password, go to jail.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:32 +0100

Forget your laptop password, go to jail.:

It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense.

Clever email marketing

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:03:05 +0100

Clever email marketing:

of course I still have to enter my credit card information before I can benefit from the free month.

Of course you do, but the email is nice. I can see some AB testing on those.

Bad behavior from a nice designed App

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:40:00 +0100

Bad behavior from a nice designed App:

Path uploads your full address book on their server, without asking or even warning you. Dave Morin (CEO) answered in the post saying they’ll change this, but my answer is:

It is important for services/companies to have as many email addresses in database as possible, whatever they are saying. It is worth a lot of money for them, for now or a later use (note: it also allows Path to tell you X has signed in, but they could easily achieve similar feature uploading hashes of the mails instead)
Many other apps do the same, without warning.

However I can’t stop myself from thinking how much of a bad behavior this is.

UIStoryboard Issues

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:18:46 +0100

UIStoryboard Issues:

While working on this I found out you can’t have user defined relationships in StoryBoard. What a lack…

(Yes I had already blogged this link here)

Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:49:22 +0100

Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery:

A very very nice article from 37signals about email delivery. I had similar issues at Causes and worked on email for months, and I can confirm all points are good to know.

Images from the Fujifilm X-Pro 1

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:42:42 +0100

Images from the Fujifilm X-Pro 1:

On one side Kodak files up for bankruptcy, and on the other Fuji releases a Leica M9 look a like camera, for 25% the price…

It looks super nice on video, might end up getting one.

FBI closes megaupload.com, DNS no more

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:30:42 +0100

FBI closes megaupload.com, DNS no more:

150 millions registered users, now 7 arrests and facing 20 years of jail.

Kodak files for bankruptcy

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:31:45 +0100

Kodak files for bankruptcy:

It had been announced earlier these days, but it’s now official. Sad for the 130 year old company, and I’ll miss Portra films if I can’t find those anymore.

French FreeMobile: close to 1 million customer in less than a week

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:13:57 +0100

French FreeMobile: close to 1 million customer in less than a week:

100,000 new customers per day, and 500k within the first days. Not bad for a new carrier…

(French article, via @jpoiraud)

Primary language in iTunes connect

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:21:53 +0100

Primary language in iTunes connect:

I used to create another iTunes developer account to change this. I had set my primary to French, meaning iTunes stores which I would not put specific description for my apps would see a French description instead of English.

How much they make from the Appstore?

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:20:51 +0100

How much they make from the Appstore?:

All in all, you can’t be serious about making games and “earning a living” out of it without at least a $40k budget. (And I’m really being cheap here; I think to be competitive today on the App Store you need $100k.)

Great article and a must read if you ever want to make iOS games, and even for other iOS developers.

What TV shows you watch ?

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:22:29 +0100

What TV shows you watch ?:

They intercepted and manipulated the data using Fritzbox! and WireShark and returned to the company a negative energy consumption rate of -106610 kWh

Sounds like a good way to not pay electricity bills again ever (actually, you’d get money from the company). I love the CCC, you learn fun things every single year.