All Blog Posts (Page 55)

Dec 11, 2006
Apple

Crazy rumor: Apple planning on making Leopard ugly

Apple Gazette, a heretofore unknown Mac rumors site, claims that Apple will replace Aqua with a new look-and-feel codenamed Illuminous in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, scheduled for release sometime in 2007. The conjecture states that: What will Illumin...

Dec 08, 2006
Meta

Update: Mac developers team up to help out sick kids

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...

Dec 06, 2006
Meta

Mac developers team up to help out sick kids

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...

Dec 05, 2006
Vista

Cool Vista Trick: This ain’t your daddy' Print Screen

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. ...

Dec 04, 2006
WPF

Microsoft announces Expression suite

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...

Dec 03, 2006
Cocoa

The best Cocoa UI components

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 ...

Nov 29, 2006
UI Design

WgeTF: are Windows apps just lame?

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...

Nov 29, 2006

Pitchers of Liquors and Milk

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.

Nov 29, 2006
Apple

Oh yeah, iRooster

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...

Nov 28, 2006
Cocoa

Styling NSWindows in Cocoa

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...