ThinkMac SoftwareScorched earth
NewsGator, owners of Brent Simmons’ NetNewsWire (NNW) today announced that they would no longer be charging for the RSS reader. The full app which would have cost you $30 yesterday now costs you nothing. Of course NewsGator would like you to sign up for their subscription service, but that doesn’t appear to be a mandatory condition of using the application. This decision…
All Together Now
My friend and fellow British Mac developer Steve Harris has just released version 2.0 of Together, a classy digital scrap book of sorts that lets you store and organise just about anything. Version 2.0 require Leopard and looks gorgeous for it – check out the shelf! Delays, delays, delays… Yeah InstantGallery 2 has hit further delays pushing it into December now –…
InstantGallery 2 & Leopard Compatibility
InstantGallery 2 is still slowly approaching with the end of November marked tentatively in my calendar as release time. Here’s a big sneaky peak: Here it is running on Leopard. It will be fully compatible with Tiger too of course, it even detects which OS version you’re using and mods the UI slightly so it fits in better with the visual look…
Coming in iKana 1.5…
iKana has been very popular lately and I’m glad to announce that it will soon be bumped all the way up to version 1.5. New in this version is a vocabulary practice module, tab delimited word list importing and some general UI improvements including a shiny new application icon. It’s getting close to completion and will be out before the end of…
iKanji
I’ve started work on this and it’s already coming along well. I will talk about this loads more in the future, but for now let me say one thing – stroke animations. They’re really useful for learning kanji and iKanji not only has them, it lets you create them really easily. InstantGallery 2 is still coming along too – sorry it’s taking…
2007 App Roadmap
There hasn’t been a huge amount of noise from me lately regarding my various apps so I thought it was time to spell out what’s going to be going on for the remainder of this year: InstantGallery Version 2.0 is slowly marching towards completion, there is still quite a lot to do though. Getting big updates like this finished is always a…
Sneak preview: InstantGallery 2.0
I’ve been hard at work on InstantGallery 2.0 for awhile now and I’ve decided it’s time to start revealing a few bits and pieces. I’m hoping to have IG 2.0 ready for beta testing by the end of this month. InstantGallery 2.0 will be a free upgrade for existing customers – 2.0 will be slightly more expensive though to reflect its growing…
IG 1.6 beta out
Just a quick note to say that InstantGallery 1.6 has gone out to beta testers now and the public release will be out early next week (either Monday or Tuesday). There will probably be one more update to InstantGallery before the end of the year and I want to have NewsLife out well before Christmas.
WWDC predictions
It seems everyone is doing WWDC prediction posts at the moment so I might as well take a shot at it. Obvious stuff… OS X 10.5 Leopard previewed and Select and Premier ADC members get given a preview copy. Mac Pro announced. iPod update of some kind because it’s overdue, sales are slowing and Apple wants to one up Microsoft’s Zune. DashCode…
Updates are in order
Goodness it’s been a little while since I last updated the blog – my apologies! I’m working hard on the next release of InstantGallery, version 1.5, which will be out this week if all goes to plan. The big feature in 1.5 is the ability to save galleries so you can come back to them later. Everything about a gallery is saved,…