PhillRyu Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dine-o-Matic 2 will be released tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (Aug 22nd, 2007)

Phill Ryu did us a solid and dropped a quick note about an early preview of Dine-o-Matic 2 from Iconfactory. Just install the widget, punch in the names and numbers of your favorite restaurants, and a meal decision is only one click away. New in this version is categorization of the different ...

MacThemes 2 public voting has begun

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2007)

Phill Ryu writes in to tell us that public voting has begun for the latest MacThemes contest (in which three of the themes will be chosen to win $1000 in software and become available for ShapeShifter). There are tons of entries (55, to be exact), and they all look pretty darn good in my civilian ...

MacHeist 2 hype begins with email and forum leaks

by Mike Schramm (Jul 6th, 2007)

Like Mac software? Like stunts designed to promote and sell it? Then guess what, buddy-- you're in luck. It seems MacHeist 2 is just around the corner. Last year's ARG / bargain / Mac software love fest is coming around again, it seems, and while details are slim at the moment, odds are there'll be ...

Who Is Hubert?

by Alberto Escarlate (Nov 3rd, 2006)

Strange things have been afoot in the Mac shareware community over the past few days; manifested by the cute-as-a-button icon you see to the right popping up on multiple different sites. All we know about this cute lil' guy so far is that his name is Hubert. Oh, and he doesn't want us to talk about ...

Adium's icon designer on its past, present and future

by David Chartier (Jul 10th, 2006)

You might not know who Adam Betts is, but you've probably seen, or at least heard of, some of his work which includes the icon of a pretty famous Mac OS X chat client: Adium. The animated, quacking duck icon has made a bit of a name for itself, and Phill Ryu (of MacThemes and Widget Machine fame) ...