Archive for the ‘Software’ Category



BetterTouchTool

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Along the lines of MagicPrefs, a BE reader pointed me to BetterTouchTool, which offers this priceless feature: Is it possible to deactivate one finger scrolling for magic mouse? YES, but only globally atm. You can do that in the BTT Mouse Preferences in the general tab.

101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

This awesome blog promises to provide happy little nuggets of design knowledge to those who enjoy or are in need of said nuggets. Every developer should read these. (Via Tony Hillerson)

Red Sweater Grants Wishes

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Daniel Jalkut fancies himself a genie. Mention Red Sweater products on Twitter for a chance at free stuff. My favorite part is at the bottom. I REALLY HOPE THERE ISN’T ANY NEED FOR FINE PRINT BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO GIVE SOME STUFF AWAY AND HAVE NOBODY RAISE A BIG LEGAL ...

HP’s Face Recognition and Tracking Doesn’t Care About Black People

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Fake Steve found this gem, and it's too good to pass up. I welcome responses to why the HP webcam does not pick up negroes. Update: Ryan Nielsen points out that this bears a striking similarity to an episode of Better Off Ted.

Postage Sale

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

The Eddy and Apple Design Award-winning Postage is on sale for $2.99 right now. This is the app I show off to Blackberry users.

Weekend Mode and Pseudo-Follow

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Brent Simmons throws his Twitter client feature request out into the ether for some enterprising developer to grab onto. My personal dream feature is something like fake follow — where the other person sees you as a follower but you don't actually see their posts in your timeline — but with ...

Teach Your Display to Follow the Sun

Friday, December 11th, 2009

f.lux is an interesting piece of software that changes the temperature of your display to match the time of day. This will, supposedly, help you sleep better.

Shrunken Pictures

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

ImageOptim is a tool that makes your images smaller. Very handy if you're working on, say, an iPhone game with several thousand assets. Best of all, it's completely free.

• Coathangr 1.5

Monday, November 30th, 2009

After several weeks and one rejection letter, I'm happy to report that Coathangr 1.5 is available on the App Store. We made a number of significant improvements in this release, not the least of which is support for the Love system. For those who don't know, Coathangr is a social network ...

MarsEdit 2.4

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Now with more cookies. If you don't use MarsEdit for blog-writing, check it out. It's an excellent companion piece to NetNewsWire (with some similar DNA). (This post written using MarsEdit)

Gameloft Cuts Back on Android Development

Friday, November 20th, 2009

From Macworld: Gameloft's finance director Alexandre de Rochefort states that the problem is that “[the Android's application store] is not as neatly done as on the iPhone,” resulting in a market that doesn't encourage Android customers to buy applications for their phone. Rochefort further goes on to explain that “on Android, nobody ...

Warning: Love Hurts

Friday, November 20th, 2009

An excellent write-up on the Three20 situation by Rogue Sheep's Chris Parrish.

iPhone Advanced Projects

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Speaking of Apress iPhone books written by my friends, Joe Pezzillo contributed to this book, available today.

Middlemen

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Speaking of Hewitt and the app store approval process, Steve O'Grady chimes in with his two cents. This point in particular caught my attention: Ultimately, Hewitt and I might differ on the potential value add of middlemen, because I am a firm believer in the value of marketplaces and centralized distribution. ...

App Store-Friendly Fork of Three20

Monday, November 16th, 2009

This might make a lot of people happy.