ThinkMac SoftwareNew apps coming soon!
Two new ThinkMac apps will be released this month – NewsLife & InstantGallery. InstantGallery As the name suggests, InstantGallery is about creating galleries in an instant. It’s a tool for quickly turning a folder full of images into web gallery. It allows you to easily choose thumbnail and image sizes, watermarking, themes, thumbnail cropping and more all while your images are processed…
Get your CocoaDevHouse goodies
CocoaRadio presenter Blake Burris let me know you can get your CocoaDevHouse t-shirts now. If you’ve not heard of the CocoaDevHouse before check out their website. It’s all about growing the Cocoa developer community and helping each other learn the tricks of the trade.
Updates and something new
I’m busy working away on the NewsMac Pro 1.2.4 update and also a new little app that will be released at the end of the month. NewsMac Pro 1.2.4 will feature: Improved keyboard navigation across all view modes. Bloglines integration Fixes for several bugs including an issue with the atom parser that can sometimes cause crashes. Revised demo limitations of 15 days…
NewsMac on Intel
Since Steve Jobs will probably announce Intel Macs tomorrow it’s about time to start talking about NewsMac Pro’s transition to Intel. In theory as a Cocoa application it should just be a case of recompiling. However there are a couple of third party libraries which NewsMac uses which are not universal binaries and which I can’t compile myself, namely eSellerate’s validation library…
Sneak peak…
Well it’s almost ready, 1.2 is feature complete now and I’m just polishing it and fixing a few issues. Mid-November is the probably launch time, although I have a PHP app I’m working on for a client which will be going live around that time too so NMP might get bumped a little bit if need be. Clicky for big version. You…
The New Browser
As well as tabs NewsMac Pro 1.2 also features a newly designed web browser. What I’m trying to do is bring over most of the standard browser features and put them into NMP so it can take over the role of your web browser entirely. First obviously a reload/stop button is handy, even if you don’t need to use it much it’s…
Flag it!
NewsMac has always had the ability to flag or highlight headlines if they contain certain keywords. Well I say always, the feature was introduced with NewsMac 2 way back in 2003, and the functionally hasn’t really changed since. Until now that is, the next release of NewsMac Pro, 1.1.2 if you’re counting, introduces colour differentiated keyword flagging. You can assign a colour…