Archive for the 'Indie Development' Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
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 [...]
Categories: Cocoa, Indie Development, OS X
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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, [...]
Categories: Cocoa, General, Indie Development, OS X
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Categories: Cocoa, Indie Development, OS X
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
Categories: Changes, Cocoa, Indie Development
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
If you’d like to follow along at home with me as I progress towards the next version of Changes, please check out the wiki entry I published yesterday titled “Getting on the Beta Bandwagon”.
Categories: Changes, Indie Development, OS X
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
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 [...]
Categories: Cocoa, General, Indie Development
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Changes, my new file comparison and directory differencing app for OS X, has shipped today! Check it out at http://changesapp.com/. A hearty thanks to all of the beta testers, colleagues, and patient family who made this possible.
Categories: General, Indie Development, OS X
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
While you’re enjoying the tail-end of the holidays with family and friends, you might wish to take a moment and head over to Club Thievey, a charity push setup by the indomitable Mike Lee in aid of the Madagascar Lemur. My company, Skorpiostech, Inc., contributed to the cause and it makes a great year-end tax [...]
Categories: General, Indie Development
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Get it while it’s hot at the Changes website.
Categories: General, Indie Development, OS X
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
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.
Categories: Cocoa, General, Indie Development, OS X, Uncategorized
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