233 posts from 2006
On the sixth, I wrote that all of my proceeds from iRooster on December 7th would be donated to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity to help out sick kids in children’s hospitals. The outpouring of generosity was amazing! I ended up collecting $200...
On Thursday, December 7th, I and several other small Mac developers will donate all of our day’s product proceeds to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity, which gives toys, games, movies, and other fun things to children’s hospitals around the worl...
If you’re anything like me, you probably spend a good chunk of time using Print Screen or Alt+PrtSc in conjunction with MSPaint or Photoshop. Microsoft has included a cool, little utility in Windows Vista that will make your life so much easier. ...
Microsoft, today, launched Expression Studio and WPF/E, its first big foray into the designer space. What does it consist of, and what does it mean to you? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 13 hours and 45 minutes now (it’s a jok...
Update: I just launched a new website that tracks the best custom Cocoa controls for iOS and OS X. It doesn’t have a ton on it yet, but I’m stocking it up with my favorite items. Also, feel free to submit your own! As a Cocoa developer on Mac OS ...
Chimp Software has released iRooster 2.2, the alarm clock for Mac OS X. To celebrate, they are offering an iPod Nano (PRODUCT)RED edition to one lucky customer. This update features full Intel compatibility as a Universal Binary, updates to its ea...
I just discovered that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists is a frequent contributor to his band’s Wikipedia page (or perhaps it’s just someone claiming to be Colin…). Very funny.
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...
Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of...
Much has been written about the imminent decline of Western civilization due to the twin threats of text and instant messages. I’ve always prided myself on my ability to write complete sentences, but I occasionally worry about whether today’s adol...
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