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Daniel Sander and Chris Liscio have shipped TapeDeck 1.0, a sweet little app for making simple audio recordings. If you’ve ever needed to record a lecture, a conversation, or just create a quick audio note, you’ll notice that it’s relatively hard to find an app to do this on OS X. TapeDeck does all of [...]

Xcode is a great IDE. Many thanks to the great folks at Apple for turning out just a tremendously wonderful and efficient way to write code.
That being said, I do have a couple of quibbles with it. The completion, while great and very thorough, is often slow and requires navigating a list. For simple snippets, [...]

Marcus Zarra, of Zarra Studios fame, just released his new app (iWeb Buddy) for OS X. Looks pretty nice and I can’t wait to try it out. iWeb Buddy appears to “fill in the gaps” of some of iWeb’s functionality, such as support for multiple domains, RSS feeds, site analytics, and social bookmarking. I’d give [...]

Changes 1.0.2 was a very difficult release. Sometimes, in the rush to ship, quality doesn’t slide, but things are either left out or intentionally tabled for a future release. Hopefully, in 1.0.2 I’ve sewn a lot of those issues up.
A few highlights of this release:

Directory comparison stability improved.
Save Original As… and Save Modified As… in [...]

If you’re an OS X developer and you don’t know about OTX, you’re really missing out. It’s an awesome tool for peering into apps and frameworks that you might not have the source for (or for totally legit uses like making sense of user-submitted crash logs).
I heard from the developer (who shall remain nameless, [...]

Acorn has done nothing but annoy me. One of those apps that I think exists just to get under my skin.
It’s so damn good that I keep kicking myself for having shelled out for Photoshop CS3. I won’t make that mistake again. For a Cocoa developer, Acorn can pretty much handle all of the art [...]

Keep your eyes on http://changesapp.com/ for more news. I’ll be posting details on how to get your piece of the beta action soon.

Thanks again to everyone who showed up for the meeting, it was loads of fun!
Here’s the presentation I promised to post:
Objc2.0 Presentation.key.zip

For Brent:
Check out http://www.iecc.com/gclist/GC-algorithms.html. It defines write-barriers and read-barriers in the context of Garbage Collection.

I’ve been writing a lot of PyObjC code lately in TextMate. I found that there really wasn’t a good way to execute py2app based project in TextMate, which was considerably lengthing my hack/test/debug cycle. So I created a PyObjC bundle, and whipped up a little Build & Run PyObjC command which is activated by hitting [...]

Thanks again to PRUG for allowing me to show off a little bit of RubyCocoa. Great folks who run a great group, I’ll be sure to attend again soon.
RubyCocoa (Unstable) Build Instructions
You’ll need OS X 10.4 or above and Xcode 2.4.1 to build RubyCocoa. Here are the build instructions for unstable (a release is due [...]