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Harlem Shake open-sourced for iOS apps

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2013)

The Harlem Shake YouTube dance meme, if you ask me, ended about three weeks ago -- which I think was right around when it started. But that hasn't stopped the developers at Velos Mobile from creating an open-source Objective-C class for iOS projects that will take all of an app's standard ...

Backblaze announces 180 TB Storage Pod 3.0 open source design

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2013)

So, you take a few hundred thousand RAW photos and capture a couple thousand hours of HD video, and before you know it you're out of storage space. Wouldn't it be nice to have 180 TB available to store all of those bits? Never fear, online backup company Backblaze has just announced the third ...

Mac Game of the Week: Battle for Wesnoth is an open source classic

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2012)

Battle for Wesnoth is one of my favorite Mac games of all time, and best of all, it's completely and totally free. It's an open source game back when creating open source games was the thing to do, but unlike most other open source games, it has endured and flourished, currently sitting at ...

GIMP now (finally) available as a native Mac app

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2012)

This is something that's been a long time coming, and it's finally here. GIMP is an excellent Photoshop-esque open source photo editor. While it's been available on Mac for a long time, it has required the X11 Window environment, which itself needs a separate (and somewhat messy) installation. ...

Use Eve to learn Mac OS X shortcuts

by Mike Schramm (Aug 2nd, 2012)

Eve is a brilliant little program that I just installed on my MacBook -- it's got one function only, and that is simply to pop up on the screen whenever you do something with your mouse, and remind you that there's a way to do it with your keyboard. I am a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts, but ...

GIMP 2.8 gets a major facelift

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 7th, 2012)

Popular Mac, Linux and Windows image editing app GIMP has been updated to version 2.8. This latest version overhauls the UI to offer a new single window mode that lets users edit images, choose tools and set up docks all within one window. Earlier versions of GIMP had multiple windows for tool ...

Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" available under an open license

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Mike Daisey is making headlines with The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a stirring monologue about his love of Apple and disappointment with working conditions in Apple's supplier factories. Daisey's monologue details his trip to China and his time with workers from Foxconn's Shenzhen plant. ...

Growl developers describe the app's major changes

by Steven Sande (Nov 13th, 2011)

Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X, was recently updated to version 1.3. While "dot updates" to apps usually don't signal a major change, that's not the case with the latest version of Growl. In a post on the Growl blog, the team described the major changes that have taken ...

DevJuice: HockeyApp improves crash reports, beta testing

by Erica Sadun (Oct 10th, 2011)

You may be familiar with the well-respected TestFlight beta distribution service. Now, HockeyApp has arrived on the scene to give TestFlight a little competition. TUAW sat down with its developer to discover what the service might mean to you. Like TestFlight, HockeyApp offers a core beta ...

Daily Mac App: Adium

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 6th, 2011)

Instant messaging is an essential part of modern communications. On the Mac, we're blessed with the excellent iChat, but Apple's built-in IM solution doesn't connect to every protocol, so that's when we turn to Adium. Adium is a great long-standing piece of open-source Mac software. The ...

Happy 10th birthday, WebKit!

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2011)

As AppleOutsider notes, the WebKit engine that powers both Safari and Chrome, as well as the browsers on the iPhone and the iPad, turned ten years old yesterday. We meant to mark the occasion on the date itself, but unforeseen circumstances forced us to juggle things around a bit. Sorry about ...

Backblaze supports Lion, updates Storage Pod project

by Steven Sande (Jul 22nd, 2011)

A couple of years ago, the folks at cloud backup provider Backblaze made their Backblaze Storage Pod design an open source project. For around US$7900, you could make your own 67 TB RAID 6 array, and combining 15 of the arrays would give you about a petabyte of storage at a cost of around ...

Interview: Growl's project lead on coming to the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

After the news yesterday that the popular notification service Growl was officially coming to the Mac App Store with the release of OS X Lion, TUAW tracked down Project Lead Christopher Forsythe and had a quick conversation about the reasons behind the decision and the future of Growl in ...

Miro 4 bumps up media management & Android sync

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2011)

The Mac media management application formerly known as Democracy Player has been around for a good while; since 2007, it's been called Miro and has offered solid podcatching, BitTorrent and video viewing features in a convenient open-source application. The current version of the app, 4.0.1, ...

Apple approves Canabalt clone

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 5th, 2011)

Late last year, the developer who created popular indie game Canabalt released the game's source code under an MIT open source license. This license lets other developers use the underlying game engine to power their own games for either private or commercial distribution. While the underlying ...