Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry posted an interesting behind the scenes look at the app.

The guys at Pixelmator posted an explanation to users of Macs with NVIDIA GeForce graphics card drivers. Apparently there is a problem with the drivers that causes the application to crash.

Pixelmator is a great app run by equally great people.

Netflix Inc said securities regulators plan to take action against the company because of a Facebook post by Chief Executive Reed Hastings that violated public disclosure rules, even as Hastings dismissed the contention in a public letter to shareholders on Thursday.

Stupid of the CEO.

TSA baggage screener Sean Henry, 32, was arrested on Tuesday after a sting operation conducted jointly by the TSA and the Port Authority Police Department caught Henry leaving the airport with two iPads that had been planted as part of the sting, as well as numerous other electronics devices he had allegedly stolen from passengers. Just as in a recent ABC News investigation of thefts by TSA agents, the sting used the iPads’ own tracking capabilities to follow the stolen tablets’ movements.

I’m glad they’re getting caught.

Gannon Burgett looks at how we use gestures and how important they’ve become to us.

Want to balloon hop a motor home to clear the Grand Canyon? Use your sports car and escape Alcatraz by leaping as far as you can and landing on a barge? Speed through a roller-coaster on a New York skyscraper with a cow on your pickup? You can do all this and more in Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution.

Alastair Johnston is not happy.

Mike Williams for Gamesindustry.biz:

According to independent analyst firm Canalys, 25 developers pocketed 50 percent of US app revenue during the first 20 days of November 2012. The total revenue shared between those 25 developers amounted to $60 million in paid downloads and in-app purchases. The numbers are based on Canalys’ daily App Interrogator surveys of the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Only one of the 25 (Pandora) wasn’t a game developer, according to the report. The top earners included Angry Birds developer Rovio and social game factory Zynga.

IK Multimedia is proud to announce the release of T-RackS® Custom Shop, the updated version 4.0 of its world-class mixing and mastering suite for Mac and PC. The new T-RackS CS offers five brand-new, must-have analog-modeled and digital processors, and it integrates the Custom Shop, IK’s exclusive online gear shop, which allows users to purchase gear models à la carte from within the T-RackS software itself, and much more.

It’s good to see IK bring more of its software to the Custom Shop.

“We are looking at doing more manufacturing in the U.S. because, in general, customers want more to be done there,” Louis Woo, a Foxconn spokesman, said in a phone interview. He declined to comment on individual clients or specific plans.

Woo explained that one of the big challenges is managing supply chain. One of the reasons Foxconn has been so successful in China is because it’s able to so effectively manage how individual components used in its manufacturing are made and delivered. He said that U.S. manufacturing would need “to leverage high-value engineering talent” compared to China.

Tim Cook:

“When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” Cook told Williams. “It’s an area of intense interest. I can’t say more than that.”

What Tim didn’t say is that Apple would be making their own television. His comments could be directed towards the content on the TV or how we interact with the device.

Alexander Hoffmann makes an argument that it will be the Mac Pro and not the iMac that Apple will make in the US.

Bloomberg Businessweek has an exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook that published this morning.

> In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC’s “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year. Mac fans will have to wait to see which Mac line it will be because Apple, widely known for its secrecy, left it vague. Cook’s announcement may or may not confirm recent rumors in the blogosphere sparked by iMacs inscribed in the back with “Assembled in USA.”

Huge news. Apple has been under pressure to bring manufacturing jobs back to the USA for several years, especially after a series of reports about the working conditions at subcontractors’ factories in China. Businesses that will invest in manufacturing plants may also need to shoulder the costs of purchasing tools and machinery such as steam generator equipment and robotics.

During his first term, President Obama had met with Steve Jobs, and Jobs offered that Apple “could move more manufacturing here” if U.S. education produced more skilled engineers.

Cook agrees with his predecessor’s opinion about the state of U.S. education, but said, “The consumer electronics world was really never here. It’s a matter of starting it here.”

And to the pundits who have repeatedly asked what Steve Jobs would do if he were still with us?

“And one of the things he did for me, that removed a gigantic burden that would have normally existed, is he told me, on a couple of occasions before he passed away, to never question what he would have done. Never ask the question, ‘What Steve would do,’ to just do what’s right.”

Activision Blizzard, Inc., announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II has crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide retail sales, according to Chart-Track retail customer sell-through information and internal company estimates. Illustrating the strong appeal of interactive entertainment to audiences worldwide, the game achieved this milestone in just 15 days after its launch on November 13, 2012. Last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare3 reached $1 billion in retail sales in 16 days. The box office record set for feature films in 2009 by “Avatar” was $1 billion in 17 days.

That’s one popular franchise.

If Microsoft is being coy about revealing Surface sales data, it may be for good reason. Early demand for the company’s first tablet is lousy. How lousy? Put it this way: If Microsoft really did manufacture three million to five million Surface tablets to sell in the fourth quarter, it’s going to have between two million and four million left over at quarter’s end.

Estimates from the analyst are 500,000-600,000 for the quarter.

Kian McCreath, 11, suffered burns to his leg after the Curve 9320 caught fire and set his mattress and duvet alight in the room he shares with Mason, 13.

Jim and Dan discuss Microsoft’s failure to solve a problem with the Surface, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, BBEdit 10.5, the Das Keyboard, the shuttering of The Daily, The Flashback X4 Delay, and more.

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MG Siegler made a lot of great points here. It’s definitely worth a read, but many of you won’t be surprised by the ultimate conclusion — traditional publishers just don’t get it.

Pavan Rajam wrote an interesting piece wondering why iTunes 11 doesn’t take advantage of Mountain Lion’s notification center.

Charlie Osborne for ZDNet:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims that the 40-year-old trader was part of a fraudulent scheme when employed as a trader for Rochdale Securities. In a “get-rich-quick” scheme, Miller allegedly orchestrated an unauthorized purchase of roughly $1 billion in Apple stock, which left his employer with severe financial losses.

Miller leveraged his firm’s money to buy 1.625 million shares of Apple stock on October 25th. Miller’s plan backfired when Apple stock dropped instead of rose. He claimed it was a simple data input error on his part, but investigators say that his actions show clear evidence of fraud.

Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital, in Norwalk, Conn., said his longtime manager-producer-conductor Russell Gloyd.

One day short of his 92nd birthday.

Brubeck was one of the giants of jazz, an innovative musician who made his mark on modern music when he released “Time Out” in 1959. It remains one of the best-selling jazz albums to this day (behind Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report – Brubeck is in some good company).

Here’s a recording of Take Five performed Brubeck and his quartet – Paul Desmond on sax, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums – in concert in Germany in 1966.

Brent Caswell has some interesting thoughts here.

Microsoft officials have described Socl as a kind of mash-up of social-networking and search that is designed to get the learning communities to start thinking about how to use collaboration technologies in new ways. And according to the Softies and contrary to popular rumors, Socl is not an attempt to take on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler or Pinterest.

I don’t get it.

Sidecar is an advanced messenger and calling app. Now, in one elegant, seamless environment, you can text, send voice notes, make voice and video calls, and send photos, videos, contacts and locations. Unlike other apps, you can even share and call friends who don’t have Sidecar yet if they’re in the U.S. or Canada.