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Have your house text message you via Twitter

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Mar 16th, 2007

We here at TUAW are big fans of Twitter, the simple web service that asks, 'What are you doing?' It is pointless, it is a time waster, but above all it is lots of fun. Gordon Meyer over at the Mac DevCenter seems to like Twitter as well, but he seems to be on a quest to make it useful. This article explains how he is using some home automation software, a dash of Applescript, and Twitter to enable his house to let him know when a number of things happen.

I'll just continue having fun on Twitter, but I encourage others to hack away.

Tags: home automation, HomeAutomation, mac devcenter, MacDevcenter, twitter

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software

Mac DevCenter suggests best new apps of 2006

by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Dec 19th, 2006

It's an idea that, frankly, we wish we had thought of first -- and that's not to say we won't do it anyway, nyah! -- but the O'Reilly Mac DevCenter squad has posted a few candidates for the top applications of 2006. With ten deep-thinking and developer-focused geektributors (including our own Erica Sadun), the nominated apps tend toward the utilitarian: Apple Remote Desktop, Parallels, a smattering of QuickTime codecs and audio tools, and popular favorite Yojimbo.

For my money, Todd Ogasawara has picked it right with Parallels. There's no other product with the impact, press/blogosphere attention, and overall buzz of the multi-OS virtualization app that could. Who knows... perhaps next year we'll be talking about VMware and SketchFighter Alpha as the best apps around.

What's your favorite application from the past 353 days? Let us know below.

Tags: best of 2006, BestOf2006, mac devcenter, MacDevcenter, o'reilly

Filed under: Software, Surveys and Polls

Mac DevCenter: palettes or sidebars?

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 31st, 2006

Following a dilemma that Gus Mueller faced when designing the UI for his latest release of VoodooPad 3, Mac DevCenter has posted a request for feedback on this most heated of UI topics: palettes or sidebars? Preferences can easily sway in either direction, and I personally miss the old-school functionality of Mail's pre-Tiger drawer (yay for column widths that don't have to be constantly re-adjusted), though I will concede that the drawer look is old and ugly by today's slick UI standards of palettes and sidebars.

But what do you TUAW readers think? Do you prefer palettes, like in Photoshop, OmniOutliner, iWeb and Pages, or do you prefer the sidebar UI of Tiger's Mail, ecto and NetNewsWire's subscriptions panel (though it's interesting to note that NNW also uses a drawer for its site catalog)? Sound off.

Tags: ecto, mac, Mac DevCenter, MacDevcenter, Mail, os x, OsX, palettes, preference, sidebar, sidebars, UI, usability, usable, user interface, UserInterface

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