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Snippet: How to check if app runs auto-launched
To check if a Mac OS X app has been launched at login, I use this code:
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A Preview Of Monotony
Quite recently I swaggered about apps without interfaces, and I’ve tried now to follow that idea and to implement a specific example of such an app. In addition, I fulfilled my old dream of writing a minimalistic rss feed reader app. Today I give ...
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Apps without Interfaces
Software without user interfaces is cool. This is about minimalism and “one thing well” and “keep it simple” and “less is more” and about less distraction: If we assume that software typically presents at least some information to the user, it fol...
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Brow: Programming in the Age of the Sandbox
On June 1, Apple will enforce Sandboxing for all new apps on the Mac App Store. It has been already widely discussed how this will affect developers and especially certain types of apps. Not least Utility apps which need to have a wide file system...
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A new trick for Recent Menu
After a longer time I’ve again updated Recent Menu, available on the Mac App Store and as a trial download on this website. Version 1.2 contains a new feature allowing it to exclude specific file names (or parts of it) or file types from being sho...
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Recent Redux: More Small Changes
I’ve again updated Recent Redux, this time to version 1.0.2. The new download is available on the Mac App Store and as a trial download on this website. This update contains two bug fixes:
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Recent Redux: Small Changes
If you have bought Recent Redux, get the free update: I’ve released Recent Redux 1.0.1 to the Mac App Store, featuring some minor bug fixes. The bugs covered by this fix would show only under very specific conditions but would make it impossible t...
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Innovation and Success with Software, Part 1
The recent success of Realmac Software‘s Clear App, which is leading the iTunes paid apps top charts as of today, let me once again wonder on the secrets of successful software. What is behind this simple app to make people so fascinated and enthu...
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The World after March 1
Apple’s deadline to require app sandboxing on all applications distributed in the Mac App Store approaches fast, and there’s still no solution to many developers’ problems with APIs not working even though they should with the sandbox.
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New on the Team: Debugging Cat
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome and introduce a new member of our development team: As of today, Debugging Cat will supervise all debugging issues and take care of those annoying bugs spreading everywhere in our code. Debugging Cat is a q...
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