8Tracks goes live - [10:10 AM]

8Tracks Blog: "Please kick the tires and let us know what you think. Hit the Feedback link at right if you come across any bugs or you’ve suggestions on ways to make the service better." - Hey, congratulations guys!

A local boy, Richard Caetano, was involved with this effort, so congratulations RC, or Arsy, as he's known on the net.

Anywho, here's what 8Tracks is all about.

Labels: Applications, Music

Let it sell! - [9:51 AM]

9to5Mac: "The LA Times blog is reporting that the infamous, limited edition "I am Rich" application was purchased by six Americans, one Frenchman and one German. That's right. These guys gave the developer, Armin Heinrich, a total of $5,600 dollars and Apple $2,400 for what effectively is a 320x480 pixel Photoshopped picture of a jewel." - Look, if you agree to the terms of the sale, you've clicked the button, money changes hands, it's your problem, not Apple's, and not Armin Heinrich's problem.

Why should Apple not allow Mr. Heinrich to sell his application? If someone want's to spend $1000.00 on an app that does nothing, let them buy it. Buyer beware!

Check out the screen shot of the user comment. This is HIS fault. He clicked the button. Next time think before you act. Why, just tell me why would Apple put some $999.00 joke on their site? Oh, and it's not a scam, he spells out exactly what you're getting for your $999.00.

Labels: Apple, Applications, iPhone, Stupidity

Sucker! - [8:33 AM]

9to5Mac: "IAmRich is the latest from developer, Armin Heinrich. It costs almost $1,000 (£599.99), and does absolutely nothing at all." - Yes, someone will buy it, simply because they have too much money.

Why didn't I think of that?

Labels: Applications, Insanity, iPhone

iPhone app sales - [10:37 PM]

Tap Tap Tap Blog: "So, the total sales for both apps was $9,896.54 and after Apple took their 30% cut we ended up with $6,927.58 for the 7 day period. Multiply this by 52 and it works out to around $360,000 for the year, assuming things stay the same. Not too shabby at all." - Dang, not bad, not bad at all.

Labels: Applications, iPhone

Something to appreciate - [7:44 AM]

Brent Simmons: "I hope it’s self-evident that apps with too much stuff are, in general, bad. And that there are some features whose time has come and gone, and there are features that don’t get used much." - This is something I've come to appreciate about my Mac experience. The applications I use on a daily basis have minimal user interface. Two such examples are NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, I love 'em and wouldn't give them up.

Labels: Applications, Development, Mac

Red Sweater on iPhone - [9:05 AM]

Red Sweater Blog: "Since Apple opened the floodgates to the AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch, the amount of anticipatory feedback I am getting from customers has exploded. Not a day goes by without messages from hopeful customers asking if and when my applications will be available for the iPhone. In particular, Black Ink and MarsEdit." - I'm a big fan of Red Sweater Software, I'm using MarsEdit to publish this welbog. iPhone and iTouch apps are a natural for the two applications he's decided to offer. I think Black Ink in particular could be big for Red Sweater. It would seem games are a big win in general for mobile devices.

Labels: Applications, iPhone

DVD and Books Collection - [10:55 AM]

I was looking for a particular title in our pile of DVD's last night, they're in a few places, and couldn't find what I was looking for. Then I though "Hey, maybe we don't actually have this film?" I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure we don't. Bummer, I really wanted to watch it again.

Anywho, I thought to myself "Wouldn't it be nice to have a piece of software to organize this stuff? One with barcode support and automagic lookup."

There is such a beast, it's called Librarian Pro. Time to buy some software, and a barcode scanner.

Labels: Applications, Mac, Movies

Brent Simmons, mad man! - [4:40 PM]

Brent Simmons via Twitter: "Finally put NetNewsWire for iPhone in svn. Was relying on Time Machine and scripted backups." - Wow, that's something I'd have done straight away, but I'm paranoid like that.

I think the bigger thing to take from this post is we're getting NetNewsWire for the iPhone. I look forward to using it.

Labels: Applications, iPhone

Tying things together - [9:53 PM]

I'm a loyal NetNewsWire and MarsEdit user. With the discovery of Twitter I'm trying to figure out how to tie them all together. I read weblogs with NetNewsWire and post to my own via MarsEdit. I'd like to do the same with Twitter. Maybe just subscribing to my RSS feed in NetNewsWire will be good enough for the viewing, but what about posting?

Twitter blurs the line between so many thing. Blogging, chat, and e-mail. Where does it fit in the toolset I use every day? I like the idea of it being integrated with NetNewsWire, maybe a special mode, but integrated none the less. It's where I spend my time reading and since I'm not creating full fledged posts to my weblog it makes it feel like the right choice.

So, the question is, how do we get it there? Maybe a nice drawer in NetNewsWire, with the look and feel similar to the web page? I need to think about this more.

Labels: Applications, Development

Great post on Twitter issues - [8:34 PM]

Dare Obasanjo: "The problem is that if you naively implement a design that simply reflects the problem statement then you will be in disk I/O hell. It won't matter if you are using Ruby on Rails, Cobol on Cogs, C++ or hand coded assembly, the read & write load will kill you." - Go read it if you're a Twitter user, especially if you've been bashing Ruby on Rails. Their problem goes way beyond their language/platform of choice.

Labels: Applications, Ruby

More scripting thoughts - [9:34 AM]

I woke up thinking about this, it's weird how my brain does that.

Anywho, here's what I want to do in MarsEdit when I publish a new post to my weblog, maybe some AppleScript junkie can help me out.

1) Fire a script.
2) That script should receive the post Title and URL.
3) I'd like to make a shortened title via TinyURL.
4) Send the title along with the TinyURL to Twitter.

So, has anyone done that? As far as I can tell there's no eventing support in AppleScript, I'm a newbie so I may have missed it. Maybe if I get some time tonight I'll look into doing the script minus the eventing. I think all the other things can be accomplished.

Labels: Apple, Applications, Development, Mac

Twitter bridge API? - [9:28 PM]

So, I've finally taken the dive into Twitter, I really didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I am. Now that I'm using it I'd like to be able to post using MarsEdit. MarsEdit supports TONS of weblogging backends but it doesn't support Twitter, yet. (Hint, hint, Daniel.)

In the meantime has anyone implemented the Blogger Data API, or another variant, that would allow me to post using a redirect of sorts? I point MarsEdit at a compatible API, provide my name and password, write a little somthing, and click Send to Weblog, which really sends the text to Twitter indirectly.

Labels: Applications, Weblogging

Kalisty - [9:12 AM]

A friend has created a new web service for creating lists, Kalisty. This is something list/outliner freaks could be very interested in. It has a complete open API, very complete in fact.

This is one of those things Dave Winer would love. Lists and an API, what could be better.

Labels: Applications, Development

Future Feed Readers - [11:52 AM]

Nick Bradbury: "What do you want from your RSS reader in the future? If you could change the future of feed reading to suit your needs, what would you want that future to look like?" - Make FeedDemon more extensible, that's what I'd like to see. How about connectivity with Twitter, or other social sites? If it were extensible others could code what they like.

Labels: Applications

Low cost Mac vector apps - [8:28 AM]

The Unofficial Apple Weblog: "Today, I'm going to review four leaner, lower-cost (or free) options from four high-powered indie Mac developers: DrawBerry, EazyDraw, Lineform, and VectorDesigner." - I like reviews like this. They used a "real world" example to evaluate each application. Nice.

Labels: Applications, Mac, Vector

Indy Mac Developer Links - [9:39 AM]

The Indy Mac Developer scene is amazing. Here are a couple more shops hacking away to bring you great Macintosh applications. Enjoy.

• Stunt Software - On The Job
• mooSoftware - TabletDraw

Labels: Apple, Applications, Mac

Why I hate instant messengers - [8:50 AM]

Since being called Old School the other day I decided to fire up an instant messenger so I could be available for co-workers. I chose to use Adium, apparently it's widely used. So, on to why I hate these sinister pieces of software. They're a BIG distraction! Flashing windows catch my attention. That being said is there any way to create Groups in Adium and set your online status to Invisible or Offline for the entire group? I only want my co-workers to know I'm online.

Thanks.

Labels: Applications, Mac

New weblogging tool - [8:31 AM]

I've been using MarsEdit for the past few days, and I'm loving it. It connected to my Blogger based and WordPress blogs without much effort. I need to figure out how to hook it up to MSN Spaces, but I'm sure that'll be just as easy.

So, if you're using a Mac, and you'd like a client side publishing tool I'd strongly recommend MarsEdit.

Labels: Applications, Mac, Tools, Weblogging

20 Open Source Windows Apps - [3:15 PM]

Technology Bites: "Here i will list some of the open source or free programs as alternatives to windows commercial programs." - There are a few in there worth looking at; Programmer's Notepad, Inkscape, Juice, and Scribus.

Labels: Applications, Open Source, Windows