Kevin Ballard

Member since: May 23rd, 2005

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Bad kitty: Sticky mouse issue demonstrated in Lion (TUAW.com)

Feb 24th 2011 5:54PM jacklinkproductions, all this article should tell you is not to install it as your primary OS. Which is something you should have already known.

All signs point to January 6th launch of iWork '11 (TUAW.com)

Dec 18th 2010 2:27AM The search suggestions are likely populated from what other people have been typing. If that's true, than the "iwork 11" search suggestion really has no meaning at all.

The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure (TUAW.com)

Oct 14th 2010 5:01PM Funny, every book that I personally have searched for since the iBookstore has launched has either been on both iBookstore and on Kindle, or on neither. And the stat "In August, Cult of Mac reported that author Joe Konrath was selling 200 books a day for the Kindle and only 100 per month on the iBookstore." seems incredibly bogus. 100 per month? Awfully suspicious.

First Look: iStat for the iPhone (TUAW.com)

Jan 16th 2009 12:12AM Ugh I hate "Free Memory" functionality. It's completely misleading. All it does is allocate enough memory to trigger the low memory warning, then releases it. In other words, it does exactly the same thing as what happens when you simply get low on memory.

First Look: OldBooth (TUAW.com)

Dec 16th 2008 8:18AM Noah Wyle!

iPhone bug a potential threat? (TUAW.com)

Nov 12th 2008 3:28PM This is hardly a bug. Basically, the whole thing boils down to you can have symlinks in your app and the codesigning doesn't sign the target of the symlink, it signs the symlink itself. That's not a bug, just a design decision. And it does not allow the app to do anything it couldn't do before - it's always been possible to execute arbitrary code, it's just disallowed by the SDK agreement. This "bug" does not change a thing.

Transgaming to use SecuROM for Cider games (TUAW.com)

Aug 21st 2008 8:20PM I just sent an email to cider@transgaming.com about this issue. I encourage you to do the same. Be polite and don't swear/yell, but do tell them why DRM will hurt sales and that you will not be purchasing any Cider-enabled games until the DMR is lifted.

Your iPhone dislikes "Flickr" (TUAW.com)

Jul 22nd 2008 6:30PM The iPhone keyboard also dislikes "Firefox". You can't type the "o".

GrabUp (TUAW.com)

Apr 16th 2008 5:25AM Personally, I was always very annoyed at how hard Skitch makes it to get the URL. You have to hit Upload, wait for it to finish, then hit the button *again* to open a browser window, then copy the URL from that. I've always thought Skitch should just copy the URL to your clipboard the moment the upload is finished.

GrabUp (TUAW.com)

Apr 16th 2008 5:24AM Are you actually *running* the thing? If you don't see a status icon in your menubar with the GrabUp logo in greyscale (assuming you haven't unchecked "Show in menubar" in the prefpane) then you're not running it. Go to the preference pane and start GrabUp. Now when you take a screenshot, the status icon will change colors to indicate what it's doing - green means it was successful.