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Have your house text message you via Twitter

by Scott McNulty (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 ...

Mac DevCenter suggests best new apps of 2006

by Michael Rose (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 ...

MacDevCenter offers up text tips

by Scott McNulty (Oct 12th, 2006)

Speaking of text (and when am I speaking of anything else?) Giles over that the MacDevCenter has served up a heaping pile of text tips. These tips cover everything from Markdown, to vi, to Textmate. I love plain text, myself, and I was happy to learn a few things (though one of my favorite text to ...

iTunes 7: cover art tidbits

by Scott McNulty (Sep 14th, 2006)

The feature that got on of the most enthusiastic responses from the crowd the other day was album art retrieval in iTunes 7. This seems like a no brainer, I mean Apple has lots of cover art and it gives users a nice warm fuzzy to get something for free. Scot Hacker has noticed that album art is ...

Who Wants to Be a Mac-ionaire?

by Scott McNulty (Sep 11th, 2006)

You have a few spare moments right now (I mean you're at work, or in class) so why not test your Mac trivia knowledge? Chris Adamson has whipped up a javascript based game that he called 'Who Wants to Be a Mac-ionaire?' Take the challenge and post your results in the comment. I got up to the $50,000 ...

Soundflower now Universal

by Scott McNulty (Aug 8th, 2006)

Soundflower, a freeware app that is near and dear to many a podcaster, has been updated and is now a Universal Binary. It'll now shunt audio to places audio wasn't able to go before on Intel Macs, and yet it is still free. Ahh, Mac developers, how I love you so! [via MacDevCenter] ...

Mac DevCenter: palettes or sidebars?

by David Chartier (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 ...

iTunes: all about the small touches

by Scott McNulty (Jul 19th, 2006)

The MacDevCenter has a nice post up about some of the often over looked UI niceties of iTunes. I didn't know that you could convert video to an iPod friendly format right in iTunes. Genius! Additional columns, pop out windows, and that little triangle in the main status window are also covered. One ...

Why Path Finder 4 is Tiger only

by Scott McNulty (Jun 5th, 2006)

We've mentioned Path Finder, the full featured Finder alternative from Cocoatech, a number of times here on TUAW. I am sure there are a few of you that were upset because the latest version of Path Finder only works with OS X 10.4. The MacDevCenter sat down with Steve Gehrman and Neil Lee, the men ...

David Pogue podcast looks at Automator

by Dave Caolo (Aug 10th, 2005)

In his latest podcast, Mac author David Pogue takes a look at Automator. In the course of the four and-a-half minute podcast David discusses Automator's basic functions, the drag-and-drop interface and some potential usages (stand alone workflows, plug-ins and iCal events). He also briefly compares ...

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