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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish … RIP Steve Jobs

Christian — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:06:43 +0000

Thank you for so much, Steve.

I was deeply moved by Your commencement speech in Stanford as I am when I watch it today …

Offical Apple video stream of WWDC 2011 Keynote

Christian — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:44:43 +0000

Here’s the Quicktime video stream of this years WWDC 2011 keynote about Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud … and how it all works together. So, tune in to see Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall presenting the newest software developments.

Liveblogs: Steve Jobs WWDC 2011 Keynote on Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 & iCloud

Christian — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:00:45 +0000

This years WorldWideDeveloperConference WWDC 2011 sould out within 8 hours. So, bad luck if you’ve been on a transatlanic flight at that time. Today, the lucky ones of the iOS & Mac developer community, who managed to get a ticked this year, gather at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco. Probably, Apple will share the videos of all of the WWDC sessions for free with their registered iOS & Mac developers, like they did last year. And even if the Cupertino guys won’t stream Steve Jobs keynote live, we’ll get a video stream short after the event. For real live coverage we can rely on the all those people blogging from the keynote. The keynote begins at 10:00 AM PST (07:00 PM CET) and there are a lot of things to cover: The next version of Mac OS X called Lion, the next version of iOS for iPhones & iPads and Apples new cloud service iCould.
Here’s my link list for live coverage of the event:

Tim Stevens & Darren Murphy for Engadget … Tim & Darren start their pre-keynote-roundup at 07:30 AM PST via UStream videostream and continue with the keynote coverage
(Liveblog technology: UStream (not via iOS) & ? iOS-friendly engadget cms ?
Ars Technica … live blog will start with the keynote
(Liveblog technology: ScribbleLive, disabled for iOS).
Greg Kumparak for TechCrunch … live blog will start at 08:45 AM PST – 17:45 CET
(ScribbleLive, not iOS optimized).
TheNextWeb … live blog will start at 09:30 AM PST – 18:30 CET
(ScribbleLive, iOS friendly).
Jason Snell & Dan Moren for Macworld… live blog will start with the keynote
(Liveblog technology: CoverItLive, iOS-friendly)
Technologizer … live blog will start with the keynote
(CoverItLive, iOS-friendly).
MacLife … live blog will start with the keynote
(CoverItLive, iOS-friendly).
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for ZDNet … live blog will start with the keynote
(CoverItLive, iOS-friendly).
Arron Hirst for RazorianFly … live blog will start at 09:30 AM PST – 18:30 CET
(CoverItLive, iOS-friendly).
Gizmodo … live blog will start at 09:00 AM PST – 18:00 CET
(Liveblog technology: unknown, iOS-friendly).

As soon as the keynote is available as a Quicktime stream, you’ll get an update here

Coding: .gitignore for Xcode 4

Christian — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:36:04 +0000

Finally, Apple introduced native Git support in Xcode 4. Git is now the standard version control system you can use within Xcode. The Apple engineers did a great job in integrating Git into Xcode 4 … but there is room for improvements Tools like gitx still are essential for me to keep track of all the branches in the Git-repository.
If you want to use Git as the version control system for your Xcode projects, you definitely should use a specific .gitignore file to keep your Git-repository clean.

That’s the content of a Xcode4 optimized .gitignore text-file:

# Exclude the build directory
build/*
 
# Exclude temp nibs and swap files
*~.nib
*.swp
 
# Exclude OS X folder attributes
.DS_Store
 
# Exclude user-specific XCode 3 and 4 files
*.mode1
*.mode1v3
*.mode2v3
*.perspective
*.perspectivev3
*.pbxuser
*.xcworkspace
xcuserdata

Live Video Stream of the Apple “Back to the Mac” Media Event

Christian — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:25:46 +0000

Today, October 20th at 10 AM PST (07 PM CET), Apple invited the press to their “Back to the Mac” media event in Cupertino, California. iPhone, iPad and the iPod are quite important … but there sure are the MacBooks, MacBook Pros, the iMacs, the Mac Pros and the Mac OS X as a base for all the success. So it’ll be quite interesting to watch what Steve Jobs will present us today.
As Fortune reported, viewing the live stream requires Safari on Mac OS X 10.6 or an iPhone/iPod touch with iOS 3.0 or better … or an iPad.

Stay tuned for the Live Streaming URL.

[UPDATE] Here’s the live stream: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2010/

Video-on-demand of Steve Jobs Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote

Christian — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:56:56 +0000

Finally the video stream of Steve Jobs iPhone 4 & iOS 4 keynote at the WWDC 2010 is online now. So tune in to watch his performance.

“You won’t be disappointed” – Steve Jobs WWDC 2010 Keynote Live-Coverage

Christian — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:16:15 +0000

Again, it’s keynote time: The sold out Worldwide Developer Conference 2010 – WWDC10 – is about to begin. At 10:00 PST Steve Jobs will be on stage. Developers, fans and all others who are interested in Apple’s business development will be hypnotized of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Millions of people are sitting at their computers, iPhones, iPads or other mobile devices and want to know instantly what Steve is presenting today.
It’s really fascinating how Steve plays with the masses … so it does not surprise too much, that the big German news magazine Spiegel Online refers to the event as an “Californian worship”. That’s not how I would describe it … but it shows how hard it is to understand and describe that keynote phenomenon. Just thnik about the “viewing rates” or reach of a presentation of Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (Nokia CEO), Jim Balsillie (Research In Motion co CEO) or even Eric Schmidt (Google CEO).
What will present us today … nobody really knows. But there is a lot of rumor out there: The iPhone HD or 4G? A sneak preview of the next Mac OS X version? New Mac hardware? … the first photos from the Moscone West Center suggest that it’s all about apps … maybe a Mac AppStore
Some weeks ago, a developer wrote a provocative email to Steve, whether he will counter Apples competitors like Google/Android. Steve’s short reply was “You won’t be disappointed!”.

So the expectations are high … and for all of us, who are not able to attend the Steve Jobs show at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco live: Here are some of the most important live coverage blogs for the WWDC keynote 2010:

Jason Snell & Dan Moren, Macworld.com
Jason Chen for Gizmodo … won’t get access to the keynote – because of the iPhone 4G case
Erica Ogg for cnet news
Joshua Topolsky for engadget
John Paczkowski for All Things Digital
Technologizer-Staff for Technologizer
Ars-Staff for Ars Technica
Greg Kumparak for TechCrunch / CrunchGear

As soon as the video of the keynote is available as a Quicktime stream … you’ll get an update

QuickTime video-on-demand of the Apple iPad special event 2010 keynote

Christian — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:02:08 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs presents the iPad on January 27th 2010 (Picture: Apple)

Finally Apple officially published the video-on-demand of the Apple special event “Come and see our latest creation”. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27th 2010. You can watch it as a QuickTime video stream or as MPEG-4 … and it’s really worth it

Apple Event Keynote “Come and see our latest creation” – Live Coverage [Update]

Christian — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:25:43 +0000

This is the day: Apple will start their press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. At 10:00 am PST or 07:00 pm MEZ.

Like the legendary Steve Jobs Keynotes in the past, it is quite a tradition that some journalists blog live from the event … so Apple fans all over the planet can take part on the press conference. Here are the most important liveblogs:

As soon as the videorecording of the event is online as a Quicktime videostream … there’ll be an update

Battle on the emerging market of Active Content: Amazon Kindle versus Apple

Christian — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:08:24 +0000

Apple invited the press to their “Come see our latest creation” event in San Francisco on January 27th. And the computer and e-book industry starts trembling with fear: Companies like Microsoft and Amazon are getting really nervous, because Apple may conquer the emerging market of Active Content.

Apple did not announce that the company will be engaged in the e-book or tablet-market – but the rumors about an “iSlate” or “iPad” are quite persistent. Therefore Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer tried to steal Apple the show at his keynote at the CES in Las Vegas: He just renamed the tablet-PCs on stage as “slate-PCs” … but it’s not about a name.

Kindle Development Kit (picture: Amazon)

Now Amazon announced, that the company will open up their e-book platform for third party developers: Within some month, they’ll release a Kindle Development Kit (KDK) and will also provide the sales channel for the active content created with that software development kit (SDK).
The revenue sharing model looks quite familiar to iPhone developers: 70% to the developer and content provider, 30% for Amazon. But Amazon charges an additional $0.15 per MB for content delivery … as the Kindle is not sold with a mobile phone contract. Amazon has to pay the distribution costs to the mobile network operators if the content is delivered via the mobile data channel.

Amazon is probably in a better starting position in the battle for market shares in the emerging market of Active Content: They have a lot of experience with content distribution with the Kindle and they are in direct contact with the publishers … but Apple has the ability to rouse the e-book-market from slumber by innovation. They may transfer the pathetic e-books into a new and emerging market: Active Content.

There are a lot of advantages for Apple to tip the scales:

big and growing iPhone SDK developer community … Amazon has to build up a comparable dev community around the KDK
well-engineered and sophisticated iPhone SDK … with a full bandwidth of network-, graphic-, data- and sensor-support
color instead of grayscale screens and computing and graphic power
touchscreen with gestures
amazing design
… and there are probably some innovations we don’t expect

Amazon’s move to open up the Kindle to 3rd party developers and create a platform for Active Content is absolutely right … but can it compete with Apples offering? On January 27th 2010 we’ll know much, much more.