Archive for the 'Indie' Category

Wii Transfer 2.6

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

My buddy and podcasting cohort Manton Reece has announced the release of Wii Transfer 2.6. His application is apparently a very cool means of interfacing content from your Mac over to your Nintendo Wii. I wish I had more hands-on experience, but unfortunately I do not yet have a Wii of my own to play [...]

Core Intuition: The Design Awards

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

In Episode 4, Manton and I discuss the Apple Design Awards, which were handed out at WWDC. We also go off on a fun tangent about application versioning, and how the traditional “Mac way” of doing it is is frequently overlooked or ignored by new developers to the platform.

LiveDiscKit From Rogue Amoeba

Friday, June 27th, 2008

At this year’s Macworld conference, the guys at Rogue Amoeba decided to do what many trade show exhibitors do: give away a free demo CD to interested attendees. But recognizing the conventional drawback of these demos, that they are obsolete from almost the minute the disc is burned, they invested in developing a clever application [...]

Paul Kim On Software Bundles

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Paul Kim of Noodlesoft participated in the MacUpdate Bundle, putting Hazel up for sale along with a number of other applications, for a low-cost bundled price.

In a recent blog post he goes into glorious detail about the motivations for participating, the pluses and minuses, and after all is said and done, whether he would do [...]