NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone now on App Store
I find discussion on the pros and cons of different open source licenses fascinating. I tend to think of BSD licenses more favourably than the GPL, and increased cooperation is one of those reasons.
Do you need an umbrella today? -
Clever little website. Does one thing simple and well.
Mantia - App Store Ratings and Reviews -
Mantia’s comparison of the App Store to MacBooks highlights how people’s perception can flavor their attitude.
Cocoia - Snow Leopard UI roundup -
Sebastiaan has summarized a bunch of the UI changes in Snow Leopard. The roundup has some nice observations of little things I had not noticed yet.
I do not like Wordpress. After months of using it half-heartedly, I have decided that it is not right for me. Instead, I am going to try out Tumblr for a while. So far it seems to be a big improvement. Wordpress was just too ‘heavy’ for my needs.
Every few days someone finds my site by searching for how to scrape app store rankings. I no longer use that script, since I found it awkward to use. I’ve switched over to using MajicRank by Majic Jungle software.
MajicRank is a Mac application that polls the top 100 lists in iTunes to find your apps. It keeps a history so you can graph and also see the change in rank since the last run. I find it very easy to launch the app every day to keep tabs on my apps’ rankings.
Yesterday, we submitted another iPhone application to Apple. This one is called Egg Painter. As you may guess, it’s an Easter Egg painting app aimed at kids. You can check out the website for it at http://www.fanfoot.ca/eggpainter.
Having become frustrated trying to check iTunes for app rankings, I decided to look for a better way to do it. That search led me to a post on Ben’s Dev Blog. The perl script given is priceless and saved me from having to write something up myself. It would be preferable to have a Mac app that does it, but this works for now.
Edit: I have switched to using a Mac app called MajicRank. See my post for more details.
Ars Technica has an article about changing text in a UISwitch robustly. It looks like a fairly interesting approach, but the issue with localization is probably a deal-breaker for me.