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Perian posts end of life notice. Mac video enthusiasts weep.

by Erica Sadun (May 14th, 2012)

Perian has been a steadfast friend on my computer for years. With Perian, nearly any video format I throw at QuickTime simply works. Perian has been a wonder. It supports AVI. It supports DivX. It supports MKV. It's been one of the best and most useful tools I have had access to and invariably ...

GitHub for Mac now available

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 22nd, 2011)

GitHub, probably the best-known hub for both public and private repositories, is now available for the Mac in the form of a handy management application. The Mac version will hunt for repositories already on your machine, then allow you to manage them. You can view commit history, make ...

iPhone devsugar: SwapKit

by Erica Sadun (Dec 28th, 2009)

iPhone developer Emanuele Vulcano has been working on a new iPhone OS data exchange protocol called SwapKit [Apple Dev account required for link]. Hosted on GitHub, SwapKit provides App Store-friendly application-independent ways to publish data with custom metadata for sharing between ...

TUAW is now on GitHub

by Joachim Bean (Oct 13th, 2009)

As posting code on the blog can sometimes can get very cluttered, we have just set up a GitHub account for TUAW to make everything better and easier for everyone. This is where you'll be able to find code for our developer-related posts. We'll try to get some projects hosted in there very soon, so ...