Gus's weblog, adventures in Flying Meat. http://www.gusmueller.com/blog/ 2008-10-03T11:19:59-08:00 Gus Mueller Acorn free for registered DrawIt 3 users urn:uuid:5df9c07c-840b-4fd5-9602-8a3b1f4ce58e 2008-10-03T10:17:24-08:00 2008-10-03T11:19:57-08:00
Pieter Omvlee: Compensating for Bitmap: Acorn for registered DrawIt users

'''Those of you who read my previous post will know that I removed the bitmap editing from DrawIt Pro. It’s fairly uncommon to remove features, especially if they are this important, but DrawIt’s bitmap editing has never been that good.
...
When I decided to remove it, I knew I had to compensate the current users and I think I succeeded here and I’m sure you’ll agree. Some time ago I contacted Flying Meat’s Gus Mueller with a shy attempt at maybe getting a discount for Acorn for current DrawIt users. To my joy he even proposed to give away a free licenses of Acorn to all registered DrawIt users.'''
 Ceramic Notepad urn:uuid:f9771180-6eb0-4350-98bb-a2126ff85506 2008-09-29T11:21:33-08:00 2008-09-29T11:22:43-08:00
Yoyo Ceramics: "Plain Jotter" ceramic notepad.

Looks neat, not sure how well it would stay clean though. Might as well just use Acorn anyway :)

 SousChef urn:uuid:72f0484f-176b-4539-96ca-6e95573303cb 2008-09-29T10:44:08-08:00 2008-09-29T10:47:02-08:00
Congrats to Ben Lachman for releasing SousChef, "A digital cooking assistant".

'''Most cooking software stops at letting you organize your recipes. SousChef helps you cook, start to finish. Find a recipe, cook it, modify it and share it with friends & family—all in one application.'''
 What I did on my summer vacation urn:uuid:693f50b6-f904-41f4-ae2d-ee2900cf033c 2008-09-28T13:24:13-08:00 2008-09-28T13:41:59-08:00
What I did on my summer vacation, pictures from climbing in Horseshoe Canyon Ranch and Sam's Throne, Arkansas.

And various pics from our time in St. Louis.
 Vacation time wooooooo! urn:uuid:6449be7e-4ae1-4649-a61c-9bc58a707e23 2008-09-15T18:01:06-08:00 2008-09-15T18:06:10-08:00


woooooo!



more woo!


(No, the text tool isn't broken in Acorn dev builds)

 Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality urn:uuid:ab81601e-0f4b-49da-9a52-0f723f71679f 2008-09-12T12:14:06-08:00 2008-09-12T12:17:01-08:00
Almerica Blog: Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality.

'''Today I finally got a reply from Apple about the status of Podcaster.

Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.'''


What's the message developers get from Apple? Don't bother trying to innovate on the iPhone, because that's what we do.
 Air Sharing urn:uuid:3b4ac33a-2fa0-4700-858f-1154ca77d9d4 2008-09-11T11:57:44-08:00 2008-09-11T12:14:17-08:00
Air Sharing is an iPhone app for copying files to your iPhone, as well as viewing them.

Works great, and it's free for a limited time. I love how they start up a WebDAV server on the iPhone to copy files over. Exporting a VoodooPad document and copying that over works great as well.

(Via Joe Heck)
 Happy Birthday Acorn urn:uuid:728d7b6e-0b99-44e6-9627-0ebeaa8f78a2 2008-09-10T13:02:37-08:00 2008-09-10T13:10:47-08:00
Today Acorn, "The image editor for humans", turns 1 year old.

Happy birthday Acorn! Yes, I like to celebrate birthdays for my apps. I'm different that way.

So what's coming up for Acorn? Well, once I push out an update to VoodooPad I'm currently working on, I get to continue adding cool tech to Acorn 1.5. I won't spill the beans on what exactly that is, but it's code I've been wanting to write for a long time now.

Actually, most of Acorn is that way. But this code is especially cool if you use Wacom or other tablets.
 Fraser and Casey on C4[2] urn:uuid:4761065a-f627-4183-9baa-7ccfdf88dc8f 2008-09-08T16:38:39-08:00 2008-09-08T16:44:22-08:00
Fraser Speirs on C4[2], and Casey Fleser as well.

I had a feeling going in that this was going to be the best C4 yet, and I was right.
 Mike Ash on lockless thread-safe data structures urn:uuid:003dac80-9d1a-4961-98d2-dcb8839b6d56 2008-09-08T16:16:49-08:00 2008-09-08T16:21:22-08:00
Mike Ash (of Rogue Amoeba fame) was recently on Late Night Cocoa, talking about lockless thread-safe data structures.

This is something I've been curious about for a while, and while I haven't listened to it yet, I certainly will.

There is also a little conversation about it on Mike's blog.
 Microprints from Jorge Ortiz urn:uuid:df844e04-ab4a-4444-9374-18a0eb518a90 2008-09-08T16:11:23-08:00 2008-09-08T16:15:48-08:00
Jorge Ortiz is selling "Microprints".

What a great idea. He's also got some pictures of the creation process.
 FMDB Migration Manager urn:uuid:a81376c7-cee6-4dc4-9813-149b762bbb14 2008-09-08T13:44:19-08:00 2008-09-08T20:06:21-08:00
Dr Nic Williams has written a rails inspired database migration manager for FMDB: FMDB Migration Manager.

This is useful for updating the schema for your application upgrades. Looks neat, and it's something that every developer has to deal with at some point.