What happens when you offer free technical support and application distribution for only $99? An oversupply of iPhone developer wannabees and an undersupply of Apple developer support resources.

Say you were working in an unspecified but extremely buggy beta SDK. Say you suddenly started encountering "could not open a new pseudo tty" errors whenever you tried opening a new terminal windows. There's not much help out there on the net for this extremely hypothetical situation.

I wonder if my Mac can read my mind. It often crashes late at night when it's time for both of us to go to sleep. Last night, it crashed just as I hit Command-S to save a big project I'd been working on. But this time, it wouldn't reboot. I popped in the usually miraculous DiskWarrior CD, booted from...

I thought the last batch of OS X updates was the cause of my recent WiFi problems. However, it is now looking like the recent Parallels Desktop for Mac might be the culprit.

Slim pickens last week: Weekly free Amazon MP3 downloads and Zoho Writer supports Google Gears on Windows Mobile phones (no iPhone support yet).

Since Apple announced the iPhone and iPod Touch, hordes of developers have focused their efforts on bringing freedom to the masses. Whether you call the process "pwnage," "jailbreak" or something else altogether, the core ideas are always the same: allow people to do anything they wish with the device they purchased and own. Do I support the idea? Entirely. I...

ActiveState open sourced its Komodo Edit programmer's text editor on March 6. Since it is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, it is especially valuable to those of us who hop OSes depending on where we are working at the time.

WiFi for both my Macs have been flaky for the last two weeks or so. Other non-Macs (e.g., iPod touch) connect fine to the two WiFi Access Points I use. Any ideas out there?

There are a bunch of Mac developers who are really angry that Apple will be keeping thirty percent of the sale price of their software in return for giving them access to the iPhone sales channel. Apple could pretty much charge whatever they want --- it's your only sanctioned way onto the phone --- and they are taking 30% and giving the developer 70%.

Have you ever kept track of how often you hit Command-S on an average day? However you use your Mac, whatever kind of apps you are using: chances are that hitting that comforting key combination every few minutes has become a subconscious habit for you. For me, it's so bad, I sometimes hit Command-S while filling out a web form, wondering where the heck that Save As… dialog box came from. The question is: Why? Why do we do this? Why isn't there a better way? Oh, wait, there is!