February 2012
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Website of the Day
WTF QR CODES
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musicForProgramming(); →
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Free - or the future of MOApp
Small independent developer-owned software stores are dead. No one purchases directly from developers any more.
Period.
The (Mac) App Store it is now. Wether we like it or not. So we have to deal with it.
And with the App Store Guidelines and the new Sandboxing – developers have to make hard decisions.
To voluntarily cripple the App? Kill it? Try it outside of the App Store?
So – no...
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MOOMaskedIconView →
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Content Hugging Priority - what the heck?
Rest assured – I was as confused as most of you.
What happened to the size inspector? How to edit ScrollViews, and TextViews? But there is a simple trick, to get the old and much more useful behavior back.
Xcode 4.3 and above automatically creates projects with the new Cocoa Autolayout API enabled now. The moment you disable it in the XIB settings – everything will be fine again.
There is...
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Browser Beta
As requested and requested and yes, requested – Browser now comes with an Omnibar. And because that way much more tasks have to be performed at the same time without slowing down the interface – I had to rewrite lots of code.
Thus this beta version first, to ensure that everything is also working for you and as always – feedback is highly appreciated.
I’ve also worked (of course) on...
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Simple Strategies for Smooth Animation on the... →
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Daily Snippet
Concurrency. And concurrency. And once again: concurrency. The holy grail to writing good Apps. And the hardest part. At least to debug. The simplest way to performe a task not on the main thread is: [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(myConcurrentAction) withObject:nil]; - (void) myConcurrentAction { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [NSAutoreleasePool new]; // do whatever needs to be done...
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Ahem
And again The Oatmeal shows us why things are the way they are:
I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened
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How to throw out the baby with the bath water
It is about the user experience – isn’t it Apple? That’s why you’re the biggest (and best) company on earth. So what the heck where you thinking as you implemented sandboxing the way you did?
Currently sandboxed Apps can’t do (and these are just random examples):
· be used with Dock icon hidden (by user) · display custom icon (changed by user) · communicate with other Apps · mount...
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You Are Not Ruthless Enough →
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
Read it. No really - read it!
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You win!
Omnibar is coming to Browser…
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Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to... →
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The cat is out of the bag
And its name is Mountain Lion. Who would have guessed that :–)
I am exited. And this also means, that there is a lot of work coming towards me. Because as of today I have to start preparing all my Apps for 10.8. This also means, that the support for Snow Leopard will be discontinued in the near future.
I am already preparing a test MacBook Air for the hopefully today downloadable Developer...
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I love my wife. My wife is dead. →
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Back and Forth
I’ve started working on a major update for Recipes and I’ve been building and trashing, building and trashing and building trashing GUIs for weeks now. Clean, cute and simple is so much hard work, sometimes.
Or often. Or most of the time.
Sometimes I really hate it. Or me. Because the moment I’ve finished an idea – I directly start to hate it.
But the first one. Or was...
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Forgotten to purchase a gift for Valentine's Day?
Maybe this helps: Some Redeem Codes for Diary
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As always: First come, first served.
Diary Webseite Diary on the Mac App Store
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Update for AppLauncher available
Apple has just approved the latest update for AppLauncher – the cute little tool to quickly (very quickly!) launch Apps and the Finder.
AppLauncher is now also a sandboxed App…
AppLauncher on the Mac App Store
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-evidently, one should think.
I find it ridiculous that there are still developers and companies out there giving a shit about their users privacy. Or maybe the better word would be alarming or dangerous.
Seriously – in 2012 (or as I call it: six after iPhone) Matt has to write an article about hashing?
Plain text – Path and Co?
I am probably the lousiest developer out there – but even I care about privacy, a lot. I...
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jakefogelnest:
Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal...
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Bug fix update for Diary available
Apple has just approved Diary 2.0.1 and it is a bug fix update. So nothing new – but lots of improvements and fixes …
Diary Website Diary on the Mac App Store
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The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design →
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Update for Browser available
I’ve just published the latest update for Browser with lots of new stuff, improvements and new caching and preloading under the hood. I’ve also created a small Tips and Tricks site …
Browser Website Download Browser for OS X Lion
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Update for Clippings hits the App Store
Apple has just approved the latest update for Clippings – The cute clipboard manager with long-term memory. This updates adds the option to store up to 100.000 clippings without using to much resources and fixes some GUI glitches…
Clippings on the Mac App Store
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“You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way...”
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It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking... →
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1Password Import
Yes, there is another update for Browser available. Besides lots of improvements under the hood – the biggest new gem is the option to import existing 1Password logins into Browser’s Auto-fill feature…
Browser Website Download Browser for OS X Lion
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Diary Manual
I know there have been some out there impatiently waiting for me to finish it. So here you are. The manual for the all new major update of Diary – The most simple and elegant way to keep a journal…
Diary Manual
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Update for Browser available
Yes – another update for Browser. But there really is so much to do and to think about. Browser now has a built-in phishing and malware protection, as well as an improved ‘memory’ and ‘bad’ script protection.
The URL bar can now be abused as Google search as well and web images can now also be downsized on the fly to better re-use them directly (e.g. for blogging) and of course I’ve...
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WARNING!
January 2012
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