Daring Fireball

Here's the best way to remove AirPods from their case

Submitted by Serenity Caldwell on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 18:01

I've been doing it John's way subconsciously about 50% of the time, and getting really annoyed when I do it wrong and it doesn't work. Now I know better.

John, Craig & Eddy Solve the Mystery of the Apple TV Remote

Submitted by Rich Stevens on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 10:34

Ed: Welcome to this week's edition of The Pixel Project: a weekly comic from Diesel Sweeties' Rich Stevens on Apple, technology, and everything in-between. Today: John, Craig & Eddy Solve the Mystery of the Apple TV Remote

Gruber and Schiller: Our full transcript of The Talk Show at WWDC

Submitted by Serenity Caldwell on Tue, 06/16/2015 - 11:00

Daring Fireball founder John Gruber sat down with Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller at WWDC for a live version of Gruber's podcast The Talk Show. Here, to the best of our ability, is a full transcript of their remarks, interspersed with occasional audience response.

MarkdownMail for iPhone and iPad - app review

Submitted by Allyson Kazmucha on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:17

YouTube Link

MarkdownMail for iPhone and iPad allows you to write articles in the Markdown format. You'll then be able to export the markdown in an email or send beautifully formatted HTML emails from the app itself. For those who aren't familiar with what markdown is, let's cover that first. Markdown is a markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz. It's extremely easy to learn and extremely convenient and efficient for publishing online. Markdown will basically convert your content into valid and properly formed XHTML. You don't have to deal with HTML tags and code. Markdown will take care of that for you.

Read on for a quick walkthrough of MarkdownMail which is currently available for both iPhone and iPad.

[iTunes Link]

iPad Stocks, Calculator, Weather, Clock, Voice Memo Apps Scrapped by Steve Jobs

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 08:34

Why are there no Clock, Calculator, Voice Memo, Weather, or Stocks apps on the iPad?

Daring Fireball's John Gruber suggests that bigger, iPad versions of the built-in iPhone Stocks, Calculator, Weather, Clock and Voice Memo were scrapped by Steve Jobs:

iPhone, iPad Don't Support ActiveX Either

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 09:39

I've mentioned a couple times already, given the recent flare-up in the discussion about iPad and iPhone not supporting Flash, that not so long ago you had a hard time using any browser other than IE6 because of another proprietary plugin -- Microsoft's ActiveX. Times change, though, and these days Firefox, Safari, and Chrome users seldom if ever come across the big red X. It's possible Flash and its blue lego block will soon be likewise optional on major sites.

Politics and Practicality the Reason for no Flash Player on iPhone... and iTablet?

Submitted by Rene Ritchie on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 12:30

Daring Fireball has an interesting post up regarding the continued lack of a Flash Player for the iPhone, and the reasons why Flash support for the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is unlikely:

I’ll leave the last word to Apple COO Tim Cook, who a year ago said, “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”

Flash is owned and controlled by Adobe.