NullRiver Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The NetShare debacle: Apple, explain yourself

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 4th, 2008)

Put yourselves in Nullriver's shoes for a minute: you create an app (NetShare - see TUAW passim), which as far as you can tell does not break any of the App Store rules. You submit it to Apple for inclusion. It passes the vetting procedure (so it must be OK, right?) and goes live online, for sale ...

What happened to NetShare? - UPDATED

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 1st, 2008)

It was there. And now it's... gone. What happened to iPhone 3G tethering app NetShare? For a while it was live on the App Store, for a meagre ten bucks. Then it vanished. And now, it seems to have vanished from Nullriver's web site, too. Their news page has no mention of NetShare. This smells of ...

Rumors: Nullriver to update iPhone Installer.app to 3.0

by Erica Sadun (Oct 19th, 2007)

Shaun Erickson at psmxy.org has posted that Nullriver looks set to release the next major update of Installer.app. Installer.app is a program that runs on your iPhone or iPod touch and allows you to download software directly to your unit. He writes that version 3.0 should be released soon, perhaps ...

Install applications on your iPhone without hacking

by Erica Sadun (Aug 28th, 2007)

Good news everybody! Have you wanted to try out all those great-sounding third-party iPhone applications? Did the hacking part of it put you off? NullRiver has released a simple iPhone GUI installer for Mac OS X. Download the latest version of AppTapp installer to your Mac and then dock your iPhone, ...

Developers offer free iPhone application packaging

by Erica Sadun (Aug 28th, 2007)

Today developers Nicholas "Drudge" Penree and Shaun "Ste" Erickson have announced unlimited free Installer.app packaging for iPhone application developers. If Installer.app sounds familiar, you might recall that a few weeks back we posted about the Installer.app utility. Installer.app is an ...

Get that distraction-free, uncluttered desktop with latest MacBreak

by David Chartier (Oct 5th, 2006)

It seems there are two slowly diverging schools of thought in terms of working on a Mac: to multi-task, or not to. While an independent (though Apple-commissioned) study has been released supporting the increased productivity theory via larger displays and more stuff on-screen at once, not everyone ...