Today David Keegan released KGNoise. It’s hands down the simplest way to draw noise on iOS or Mac. There’s two simple class methods to draw noise: + (void)drawNoiseWithOpacity:(CGFloat)opacity; + (void)drawNoiseWithOpacity:(CGFloat)opacity andBlendMode:(CGBlendMode)blendMode; David even provides a UIView or NSView (depending on which platform you’re building for) subclass that wraps up this behavior nicely. Here’s the interface: [...]
Color Picker Pro for Mac right
It’s always neat to see desktop applications go open source. Oscar Del Ben has done just that with Color Picker Pro; it’s a desktop app that lets you, well, pick colors. If you’ve ever wondered how other people structure their desktop apps, or if you’re looking to figure out what exactly that color someone else [...]
Prey: Simple yet powerful application for tracking stolen computers right
As Joshua Kaufman recently demonstrated with his “This Guy Has My MacBook” Tumblr site, stolen laptop recovery tools like Hidden really do work. It was even covered in the tech section on CNN.com. While Hidden is a proprietary Mac app, Prey is an open source, multi-platform alternative. Available for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and even Android, [...]
Episode 0.5.6 – Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor. Items mentioned in the show: Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi Drew Neil hosts VimCasts Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery [...]
Using Haskell to make a Mac App Store App right
Now that the Mac App store is open, everyone is wondering what they can get away with. Apple has added some interesting restrictions that applications must be compiled with XCode. There are tons of languages for which this is not exactly normal, and so people have been curious to see what kinds of things will [...]
kod: CSS3 themable, Node.js powered editor for OS X right
It’s a very Merry Christmas for Mac developers. Rasmus Andersson has open sourced Kod, the “programmers’ editor for OS X.” Built from the ground to feel like a native OS X app, Kod sports Chrome-style tear-off tabs and aims for full concurrency, taking advantage of additional CPU cores when loading files, performing syntax highlighting, and [...]
gitifier: Growl alerts for any Git repo including GitHub and Gitorious right
Last week we covered GithubNotifier, a nifty Mac OSX menu app that monitors GitHub using the API and notifies you of updates to your repositories. Jakub Suder has released, Gitifier his own take on the idea, opting instead to use Git itself to do the monitoring, which has some added benefits. Support for any Git [...]
GithubNotifier: Growl notifications for GitHub updates right
In Episode 0.3.5, Max wished for an app that would give him Growl alerts any time someone added a Homebrew formula to any Homebrew fork. Well, Clint Shryock has created just such an app. Github Notifier is a simple menu bar application for OS X that listens for GitHub updates in any of your repos [...]
Episode 0.3.5 – Homebrew with Max Howell
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling. Items mentioned in the show: Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell Last.fm – The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer. Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile [...]
SimFinger – make awesome screencasts of your mobile apps on your Mac right
SimFinger is a screencasting tool from Loren Brichter aka @atebits, author of popular apps like Tweetie for the iPhone as well as the desktop. SimFinger is a Cocoa app for the Mac that adds some polish to your mobile app screencasts by providing: A frame that sits on top of the simulator and adds shine [...]
things-rb: Ruby lib & CLI for Things (mac) right
A fellow Rubist and good friend Andy Shen had a conversation on Twitter with another fellow Rubist Josh Price about Things, the Mac GTD application for the Desktop and iPhone. What they probably didn’t know is that there’s a Ruby library & CLI tool for accessing the back-end of Things Open Sourced on GitHub. There [...]