Volt Typhoon attacks failed? With all due respect to the good and hard working people of the NSA, the statement that the Chinese attack against telcos was a "failure" strikes me as overly optimistic. The Chinese group that Microsoft calls "Volt Typhoon" were in every major and several minor telcos
Foundation Models framework — Apple's Stealth Edge-AI Play The most exciting thing announced at WWDC25 will bring hidden super-powers to your app. We just wrapped up a #WWDC25 private lab session with a member of the Apple on-device Foundation Models framework team a few moments ago. illumineX had been working on a use case for a client that
Liquid Glass is the Future Almost everybody is wrong about Apple's new Liquid Glass. Liquid Glass goes beyond "redesign", it's not a new UI "skin", and it's not merely a new "material design" — although it certainly embodies concepts from each of those. Liquid
SEOjargonFile (an opinionated SEO glossary) illumineX has been working on a little project with SEOtipster that's more fun than it seem like it would be: an online glossary of terms related to Search Engine Optimization. We've been involved in SEO as part of our projects since before illumineX was founded in
The Best Things in Life are Free Birdseed This weekend we had a call with a prospective client eager to pay us to help them build out a new social media feature in their (very cool) software system. We turned them down. They had an urgent deadline, but that doesn't scare us. They'd also
iBlogger 3 for iPhone and iPad available now on App Store Pulling iBlogger off the #iPhone #AppStore a few years ago wasn't an easy decision. One of the first apps on the App Store in 2008, iBlogger had grown a loyal following of thousands of bloggers who had created over a million blog posts in the first couple years.
Blogs: Not dead, yet! If you're a blogger, you might find this essay, recently shared to YCombinator's Hacker News from a blog, to be of interest. It's perhaps a little pessimistic, but has some fair observations about the state of affairs in the #blogosphere. If I could bring
iBlogger 3 Test Flight hey Bloggers! iBlogger 3 is ready for its first TestFlight on the iOS App Store. This all-new iBlogger written from scratch in Swift for iOS 13 gives us a great foundation for the future. Long live iBlogger 3! * To join the iBlogger 3 Test Flight public beta, download the TestFlight
Valentine Hearts Sticker Pack Looking for a fun sticker pack with Valentine Hearts? Look no further! The new Valentine Hearts Emoji PaX by illumineX is now available on the App Store for iOS Messages. This pack features over 30 fun, silly, flirty, sexy, artistic Valentine hearts. Spice up your text message game or sprinkle
EyeSpy 2.2.5 localized to Japanese EyeSpy 2.2.5 for macOS (available on App Store) has been localized to Japanese. #GooglyEyes for Japan! Let us know if you have suggestions for improving our translation. EyeSpy 2.2.5 improves compatibility with macOS Mohave. Follow @illumineX on Twitter for Promo Codes for the EyeScream ArtPaX, available
illumineX ships EyeSpy 2.2.4 — Googly Eyes for macOS! EyeSpy 2.2.4 was released today at the Apple App Store for Mac. This release includes a bit of polish to the drifting balloon #GooglyEyes character, Squeaky. What's New in EyeSpy 2.2.4• Corrects issues related to switching characters by normalizing the on-disk saved User Defaults
GamePaX for macOS updated (BabelBloX, RuniX, HoppiX, and HextriX) We released updates to EyeSpy and the first four games of our Infinity GamePaX series (BabelBloX, HextriX, HoppiX, and RuniX) this week.Also this week, EyeSpy had twice as many downloads in Japan as in the USA. I have no idea why, because this week isn’t any different than
(Untitled) We've updated our macOS games BabelBloX, RuniX, HextriX, and HoppiX this week, as well as the #GooglyEyes toy EyeSpy. These update improve the stability and performance of the apps on macOS High Sierra. A bug or two have been fixed in EyeSpy which prevented the In-App Purchase system
(Untitled) Ken Anderson has published an interesting article on Investigating the CQRS design pattern using GraphQL and SPQR at Medium. Design patterns are what separate the geek from the alpha geek.
EyeSpy 2.1.0 ships with new drifting balloon character Heads-up, EyeSpy fans! EyeSpy 2.1.0 is now available on the Mac App Store (Click that link to view EyeSpy on the Mac App Store) including a new drifting balloon character. (Squeaky is available as an in-app purchase for $0.99, while EyeSpy is a free download with original
Steve Jobs on life "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your
Black Monday was the Big Bang On February 11, 1993 NeXT announced they would no longer make and sell their sleek black computers the NeXTcube and related family of "pizza box" workstations known as NeXTstation. Three hundred people were fired and the company reformed around a software strategy based on pitching their operating system
EyeSpy shown in Chick Fil A commercial on New Years Day 2018 Random cool thing of the day: Chick Fil A is running a commercial today (New Years Day, 2018) which shows EyeSpy! One of the EyeSpy Developers, Arlan Titchbourne, noticed it while watching a game on television. If you have a Mac, running macOS Sierra (10.12) or macOS High Sierra
All Nippon Incident Embarasses Everyone "Today a weary random traveler and a super model with a Twitter handle made you and by association me, and our entire industry look like an under-practiced clown car act." See why everyone in our industry deserves to be fired.Chrissy Teigen Teaches Security Process Design
Connect with illumineX on LinkedIn Are you a freelance developer specializing in mobile iOS or Android programming? Do you love Cocoa/Swift, or Java? Are you looking for unique opportunities and challenges? Follow illumineX on LinkedIn and connect with illumineX CEO Gary W. Longsine on LinkedIn, too. We'd like to get to know
illumineX Announce email list illumineX is conducting our first email campaign—ever in the history of our company—to our customers. We want to let you know that we are migrating our software products to the Mac App Store, beginning with the popular games from our GamePaX series, HextriX, BabelBloX, HoppiX, and RuniX. Some
As many as 5% of iOS apps still not ready for iOS 11 A month into the #iOS 11 update, our surveys show the typical #iPhone user has seen from 1% to 5% of their apps become unavailable (because the app hasn't been updated for iOS 11). Just prior to the release of iOS 11, about 10% of apps were not
RuniX is now available on Mac App Store illumineX has been working closely with Alex Cone of CodeFab (NYC) to migrate our suite of consumer software products to the Mac App Store. RuniX, the first game from our Infinity GamePaX Series just hit the App Store, today. Our illumineX Infinity GamePaX is a series of several games including
EyeSpy 2.0.7 available now on Mac App Store EyeSpy 2.0.7 is available on the Mac App Store today. This update slightly changes the design of the app in order to work around a fascinating "bug" in macOS High Sierra (10.13). When switching between characters using the Command-RightArrow or CommandLeftArrow keys, EyeSpy on macOS
EyeSpy 2.0.4 available now on Mac App Store This release improves the stability of the EyeSpy application. * EyeSpy 2.0.3 would sometime crash when attempting to share on social media from the button in the About panel. This has been fixed. * The About and Character Preferences panels are closed when the user clicks on the “Share” button,
