10 Years of Touts
10 Years of Touts: A collection of little rotating “tout” graphics we had at the top of the old site. The oldest modification date? 2002 — 10 years ago. Through these touts, you can basically see...
View ArticleI Wish More Developers Were This Frank and Responsive
Red Sweater Blog – MarsEdit 3.5.3: Mea Culpa: “So the focus on MarsEdit 3.6 was instantly sidelined, and MarsEdit 3.5.3 was brought to existence in the space of about an hour today, taking this...
View ArticleWhy Would a Designer Want to Learn Objective-C?
I work with an amazing team at Bombing Brain Interactive. While my role there has always been visual and user experience design, along with web site development, one of my goals this year was to branch...
View ArticleIt Bothered Me Enough
I was really happy that I was able to learn enough Objective-C to make my own app, put it on the App Store, and see other people getting use out of it. The response has been great so far, and I’m...
View ArticleYou're Not Loren Brichter
Realmac Blog – App Pricing and the Freemium Trend: “So what does this mean for us and the future of apps? Given the right product, a freemium model is something that we may have to consider. To throw...
View ArticleYou're not Michael Simmons, Either
In September 2011, I attended 360iDev for the first time. At the time, Fantastical for Mac was a very new app, and I was happy to see that one of its creators, Michael Simmons, would be giving a talk....
View ArticleBuy More Apps | Outside Xcode
Buy More Apps | Outside Xcode: “And just like the friend who explains how good, proper coffee tastes, and that it’s worth the effort… From time to time tell your friends and family that developers put...
View ArticleThe NSNorth Podcast
It was a privlige and a pleasure to chat with Dan and Philipe, organizers of the NSNorth conference last night on their podcast. We talked about the App Store business, how to take the long approach to...
View ArticleAnother Kid Spends $1000 on an iPad Game
In-app purchase in spotlight again as boy racks up £1,000 iPad bill: “Eight-year-old Theo Rowland-Fry’s parents thought nothing of letting him play a ‘Simpsons’ game on the family iPad — until a...
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