Category: Mac
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Tools Catchup
I’ve spent the better part of the morning catching up with all the upgrades to my developer tools for Mac OS X (Tiger) development. If you’ve been remiss on keeping up with the essentials, here’s a list of the latest and greatest: Xcode 2.4.1 CHUD 4.4.3 Subversion 1.4.2 Please, let me know if I’m missing…
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FlexTime UI Redesign
Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software shares his approach to the redesign of FlexTime’s user interface. I really like the new interface and his write up reveals some nice little hints on how to incorporate similar ideas in to your Cocoa applications. It really is amazing how one little talk at a conference can cause…
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Inquisitor 3.0
If you haven’t seen this application yet, take a look. Inquisitor is awesome! It provides instant Spotlight-like web searching built into to Safari. It is fast, powerful and Beautiful.
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iPod Games
iPod Games: now this is an interesting business opportunity. The Mac games market may be small, but the iPod market is huge. I wonder how open Apple will be to selling independent iPod games through iTunes. So, Apple where is that iPod Games SDK? Can I use Objective-C or do I need to use Java?…
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iTunes 7 Preferences
The internet is a buzz about the new UI in iTunes 7. There are many changes, some good and some bad. Many will probably vanish with iTunes 8 or Leopard’s release. Who knows, but I’m starting to get tired of the abrupt changes with every new version and trying to figure out how the heck…
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DMG Image Design
Roustem Karimov examines the approach of several companies to DMG Image Design. This is a great comparison of several top software products’ digital distribution package for the Mac. There are several reasons why this is so important for your product: First impressions count; especially for shareware products. Minimizing customer support issues. Directions on how to…
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Apple Design Awards 2006
Apple has posted the winners of their annual Apple Design Awards contest. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
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Microsoft Kills Virtual PC for Mac
Microsoft Kills Virtual PC for Mac [MacWorld] Not a big surprise considering their new competitors: Parallels, Bootcamp, and now VMWare.
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Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0
Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0: garbage collection project snapshots non-linear debugger Xtray (GarageBand-like time-line performance analyzer) Interface Builder 3.0 Sweet UI updates
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Apple WWDC
I’m very envious of all the developers heading out to San Fransico for the Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference starting tomorrow. I really wanted to attend, but I just couldn’t justify the cost in both dollars and in vacation time. To make a feeble attempt to join in on the fun, here are my predictions…