Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

The big blog news this week is Exchange email support on the iPhone. Financial analysts say the iPhone is doomed without it, Apple bloggers say you can enable IMAP on your Exchange server, and so on and so on.
There’s a few points I think people are missing though. First, email is only half the issue [...]

It looks like VMware Fusion should be available in August, and you can pre-order it now for $39; half off the normal price. Good news for me, since I recently ordered one of the new MacBook Pros and I’m looking forward to finally having some good virtualization options open to me.
VMware Fusion hasn’t really seemed [...]

Leopard: I have a feeling this will be a very significant OSX release. I’m looking forward to it in October.
Games: I admin, I’ve secretly been wanting to play C&C 3. Not that it’s much of an issue with Bootcamp and the new 3D acceleration in Parallels and VMware, but it’s still nice to see a [...]

Say you have an NSOutlineView in your application that displays objects of a certain type in level 0, objects of another type in level 1, and so on. Although you can just use a standard text cell to display information about these objects, eventually you might want to make custom NSCell subclasses to gain more [...]

Who needs libraries or bookstores when you have the internet?
It’s 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing — and the Earth is flat. It’s been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange [...]

Daring Fireball:
Long-term, within the next two years, if not far sooner, I feel certain there will be various ways for developers to write iPhone software. (In fact, in Gizmodo’s transcript of the same Q&A session with Jobs from the D conference, they quote Jobs’s response to the question of third-party iPhone development as follows (emphasis [...]